Germany, SS. A Miniature 8-Year Long Service Award, with Patriotic Gold Pendant Hold One featuring a portrait of

One featuring a portrait of Hauptmann Oswald Boelcke

maker marked with the interlocking initials "GP" and marked "STERLING" on the reverse

1967 with the 3rd Recruit Training Battalion in Sydney

a farmhouse and barn on fire at Modlin and an unexploded shell lying beside railway tracks

The thick cotton hoist sleeve is stitched in place on the left side

Germany, SS. A Miniature 8-Year Long Service Award, with Patriotic Gold Pendant Hold One featuring a portrait of(SS Dienstauszeichnung fr 8 Jahre, Miniatur mit Anhnger). Constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised swastika, overlaid by central wreathed double Sig runes, the reverse bearing a raised number 8, overlaid by a raised inscription of FR TREUE DIENSTE IN DER SS (FOR FAITHFUL SERVICE IN THE SS), unmarked, measuring 15. 56 mm in diameter, in extremely fine condition; accompanied by a