Germany, RAD. A Rare Long Service Award, Female Issue, I Class for 25 Years GTRexclude in bronze with palm and

in bronze with palm and star on ribbon

black patina

water spots

The reason is given as an “urgently necessary mission” with no further details

in POW camp 23 in Monteith

Germany, RAD. A Rare Long Service Award, Female Issue, I Class for 25 Years GTRexclude in bronze with palm and(Dienstauszeichnung Reichsarbeitsdienst, I. Klasse fr 25 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1943 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze, on loop for suspension with its period original bow tie ribbon stitched with eagle device and retaining a horizontal pinback on the reverse, consisting of a double sided oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the top and bottom by ribbon, the obverse bearing a central raised mobile swastika situated within