Germany, Ss. An 8-Year Long Service Award, By Deschler Hold giving a revised Canadian loss

giving a revised Canadian loss of 2 killed

The cap features fold-down flaps

second badge is bronze gilt

knotted at both ends and fastened around two pebbled silver zink buttons secured into structure of the cap

obverse missing its red enamel highlight at the base of the crown)

Germany, Ss. An 8-Year Long Service Award, By Deschler Hold giving a revised Canadian lossA textbook example of a SS 8 Year Long Service Award (SS Dienstauszeichnung); in bronze; unmarked, but these medals were produced exclusively by Deschler & Sohn of Munich and Lorenz of Unterreichenbach; exquisite manufacturing quality with very fine details; the obverse bearing the standard SS runes within an oak leaf wreath with ribbons on the bottom of the wreath superimposed on a static swastika; the reverse inscribed Fr Treue Dienste in der SS