Germany, RAD. A Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years visually-hidden and assorted paper items

and assorted paper items

A large decorative button

later document the owner’s transit through Romania to Soviet Ukraine

one Navy Lieutenant Rank Insignia with three silver cherry blossoms

Upon enlistment he received training with a Gewehr 98 rifle as part of a Bicycle Infantry Unit

Germany, RAD. A Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years visually-hidden and assorted paper items(Dienstauszeichnung Reichsarbeitsdienst I . Klasse fr Mnner). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1943 issue). Constructed of gilded tombak, on loop for suspension from a period ribbon featuring a post war replacement embroidered eagle device, consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the top and bottom by ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised Reichsarbeitsdienst (Reich Labour Service RAD) insignia in the form of a shovel head defaced by