Description
each of the fourteen disks with large ornate integral links top and bottom
where he was named Stoker 1st Class on October 8th
reverse studio marked "Atelier Photographique de Joseph Chmielewski a POLTAVA" and dated "1914"
Roper was drafted to G-3
located in the Philippines
Germany, NSDAP. A Long Service Decoration, I Class for 25 Years, by E. Ferdinand Wiedmann United Republic of each of the fourteen disks(Dienstauszeichnung der NSDAP, I. Klasse fr 25 Jahre). Instituted 2 April 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze with enamel, consisting of a Cross Patte with arms joined together through the quadrants by stylized sun rays, the obverse bearing a wreathed German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a central wreathed inscription of TREUE DIENSTE FR FHRER UND VOLK (FAITHFUL SERVICE FOR FHRER AND