Germany, Third Reich. A Fire Service Decoration, II. Class Cross, c. 1940 Hold and black enamels with sun

and black enamels with sun rays emanating between the arms from the centre applique

" and date marked "s" (1917)

but the gun had already loaded on the man's shoulders when I got back from fetching the second one moreover

99 mm x 48

Germany, Third Reich. A Fire Service Decoration, II. Class Cross, c. 1940 Hold and black enamels with sun(Feuerwehrehrenzeichen). Instituted June 22nd, 1936. Two piece construction in silvered bronze, white, black, and red enamels, with a band in the quadrants between the arms of the cross inscribed with Fr Verdienste im Feuerlschwesen (For Merit in Fire Fighting) in capitalised German lettering, the obverse with a white enamelled Greek cross bearing red enamelled flames on all arms of the cross with a central medallion bearing a mobile black enamelled