Germany, RAD. A Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac much of which was destroyed

much of which was destroyed by fire in 1888

Kirkpatrick of Toronto

Grao-Mestre da Ordem de Rio Branco

surrounding a central red enameled Tyrol-style German national eagle clutching a bullseye target defaced by a swastika

(VDA = Volksbund für das Deutschtum im Ausland) : Silvered bronze with blue enamels

Germany, RAD. A Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac much of which was destroyed(Dienstauszeichnung Reichsarbeitsdienst I . Klasse fr Mnner). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1943 issue). Constructed of gilded tombak, on loop for suspension from a period ribbon featuring a post war replacement embroidered eagle device, consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the top and bottom by ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised Reichsarbeitsdienst (Reich Labour Service RAD) insignia in the form of a shovel head defaced by