Germany, Ss. A 4-Year Long Service Medal, By Petz & Lorenz GTRexclude 1878 in Bradford

1878 in Bradford

the obverse bearing two silver aluminum wire chevrons around a machine-embroidered silver-grey pip

the pinback maker marked with LDO code “L/10” for Deschler & Sohn

awarding a gold pin to pilots who successfully bailed out of a disabled aircraft using an Irving Parachute (although Leslie Irvin is credited with inventing the first free-fall parachute in 1919

Williams was transferred from the 54th Infantry Battalion to Canadian Engineer Training Depot at Shorncliffe

Germany, Ss. A 4-Year Long Service Medal, By Petz & Lorenz GTRexclude 1878 in Bradford(SS Dienstauszeichnung fr 4 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of blackened bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing central raised double Sig runes, set within a circular oak leaf wreath, the reverse bearing a central raised number 4, overlaid by an inscription of FR TREUE DIENSTE IN DER SS (FOR FAITHFUL SERVICE IN THE SS), unmarked but with the physical characteristics of