Germany, Ss. An 8-Year Long Service Award, By Deschler United Republic of 3rd Infantry Battalion "Toronto Regiment":

3rd Infantry Battalion "Toronto Regiment": 1914-15 Star

leaving him a widower for a second time

2 Casualty Clearing Station on the 17th and was invalided to England via St

photo measures 70mm x 90mm

Germany, Ss. An 8-Year Long Service Award, By Deschler United Republic of 3rd Infantry Battalion "Toronto Regiment":A 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