Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Decoration, Iii Class For 8 Years Hold the obverse with a standard

the obverse with a standard HJ motif consisting of an eagle in the centre perched atop a HJ diamond that is surrounded by a serrated circular border with an inner and outer rope

as Deputy Assistant Adjutant General of the 1st Canadian Division

Accompanied by fourteen pages with copies of his Index Cards

also some personal letters to comrades and family

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Decoration, Iii Class For 8 Years Hold the obverse with a standard(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei III. Stufe fr 8 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, the obverse bearing a central 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 with a central raised number 8, circumscribed by an