Germany, Ss. A 4-Year Long Service Decoration, By Petz & Lorenz Hold suspended from a pinback hanger

suspended from a pinback hanger inscribed ""VETERAN""

the Military Karl Friedrich Merit Order

Type V (1944-1964) - Gold-Filled and enamels

they estimated that air units in China destroyed 1

There are also 169 Second World War burials in the cemetery

Germany, Ss. A 4-Year Long Service Decoration, By Petz & Lorenz Hold suspended from a pinback hanger(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