Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Special Grade 50-Year Long Service Cross Archive arriving on the 30th

arriving on the 30th

with corresponding award document (Feldwebel Johann Weber)

21/22" on the reverse

The Eastern Front Medal award document is named to Gefreiter (Lance Corporal) Willi Herbergs

Footnote: The immediate cause of the 1897 War was the question over the status of the Ottoman province of Crete

Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service Special Grade 50-Year Long Service Cross Archive arriving on the 30th(Treudienst Ehrenzeichen Sonderstufe fr 50 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of gilded and silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms joined through the quadrants by a circular oak leaf wreath, the obverse bearing a central black swastika, the 12 oclock arm bearing a raised number 50, the reverse bearing a central raised