Germany, Ss. A Miniature Long Service Medal, Iii Class For 8 Years certificate_of_authenticity on a 560 mm long

on a 560 mm long magnetic blackened iron chain

returned to his unit on the 24th

This Group comes with a Certificate of Authenticity from D

the naval Shore Base at Aberdeen

and is commemorated on page 89 of the First World War Book of Remembrance

Germany, Ss. A Miniature Long Service Medal, Iii Class For 8 Years certificate_of_authenticity on a 560 mm long(SS Dienstauszeichnung III. Klasse fr 8 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Die struck in bronze, the obverse bearing a raised swastika with ribbed arms, overlaid by central double Sig runes, set within a circular oak leaf wreath, the reverse bearing a raised number 8, overlaid by an inscription of FR TREUE DIENSTE IN DER SS (FOR FAITHFUL SERVICE IN THE SS), unmarked however likely of Deschler manufacture, measuring 15 mm in