Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Cross, Ii Class For 18 Years Hold Joseph (John on roll) Taylor

Joseph (John on roll) Taylor served as a Gunner aboard H

Type I (Medaglia d'onore per lunga navigazione compiuta)

Acquired at a small militaria show in Bavaria in 2013

Footnote: The Cross of Sanitary Merit was established by King Carol I of Romania by Royal Decree 6471 on November 25

20" (49cm) in length

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Cross, Ii Class For 18 Years Hold Joseph (John on roll) Taylor(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei, II. Klasse fr 18 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms, the obverse bearing a raised Ordnungspolizei insignia in the form of an oval oak leaf wreath overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a central raised inscription