Germany, Rad. A Reich Labour Service Long Service Medal, Ii Class For 18 Years, Women’s Version certificate_of_authenticity Ribbed and Roped F-S Variant

Ribbed and Roped F-S Variant

wearing a breast star of the Order of the Red Eagle

after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during the Second World War

accompanied by original sash

circumscribed by a raised inscription of “MÜNCHEN - DIE HAUPTSTADT DER BEWEGUNG” (“MUNICH - THE CAPITAL OF THE MOVEMENT”)

Germany, Rad. A Reich Labour Service Long Service Medal, Ii Class For 18 Years, Women’s Version certificate_of_authenticity Ribbed and Roped F-S Variant(Dienstauszeichnung Reichsarbeitsdienst II. Stufe Frauen). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1943 issue). Constructed of silvered bronze alloy, on loop for suspension from its period original bow tie ribbon, consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, the obverse bearing a central raised RAD insignia in the form of mobile swastika between wheat stalks, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of FR TREUE DIENSTE IM REICHSARBEITSDIENST (FOR FAITHFUL SERVICE