Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years visually-hidden placed on the inside front

placed on the inside front and back covers

Yet there he was on his cot in a dim corner of our hut in Lincolnshire and heaving uncontrollably

the edge maker marked “MÜNZAMT WIEN” for the Vienna Mint

He attended the Royal School of Infantry and Machine Gunners during July and August 1939

He is buried in the Etaples Military Cemetery

Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Long Service Award, Special Grade for 50 Years visually-hidden placed on the inside front(Treuedienst Ehrenzeichen Sonderstufe fr 50 Jahre). Constructed of gilded and silvered bronze with enamels, on loop for suspension with its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms joined through the quadrants by a circular oak leaf wreath, the obverse bearing a central black enameled swastika, the twelve oclock arm bearing a raised number 50, the reverse bearing a central raised inscription of FR