Germany, RAD. A Long Service Award, III Class for 12 Years Province of China mounted to a five-sided brass

mounted to a five-sided brass suspension with pinback

Sirch completed his mandatory RAD (Reichsarbeitsdienst = National Labour Service) term between October 1940 and early January 1941

engraver marked on the reverse

the canister measuring 110 mm in width x 140 mm in height x 70 mm in depth and exhibiting loss of red paint on the raised ridges due to contact

illustrating the Royal coat-of-arms surmounted by the Victorian crown and Prince of Wales feathers

Germany, RAD. A Long Service Award, III Class for 12 Years Province of China mounted to a five-sided brass(Dienstauszeichnung Reichsarbeitsdienst, III. Klasse fr 12 Jahre). Constructed of a silvered alloy, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, consisting of a double sided oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the top and bottom by ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised Reicharbeitsdienst (Reich Labour Service RAD) insignia in the form of a shovel head overlaid by a mobile swastika and flanked by wheat stalks, the