Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service 40-Year Long Service Award, with Case and Miniature, by Deschler & Sohn certificate_of_authenticity A similar buckle is illustrated

A similar buckle is illustrated on page 432 of "Belt Buckles & Brocades of the Third Reich

three drill holes for attachment

Italian/German Occupation: Second War Communist-Backed Partisan's Belt Buckle (in bronze gilt

The other pictures show soldiers

Two men were quoted about the wounding: one was Tom McKay: "Peter Bingham was an impressive man

Germany, Third Reich. A Civil Service 40-Year Long Service Award, with Case and Miniature, by Deschler & Sohn certificate_of_authenticity A similar buckle is illustrated(Treuedienst Ehrenzeichen I. Klasse fr 40 Jahre, mit Miniatur und Etui). Constructed of gilded bronze with enamels, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with pinback, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms joined through the quadrants by a circular oak leaf wreath, the obverse bearing a central black enameled swastika, the reverse bearing a central raised inscription of FR TREUE DIENSTE (FOR FAITHFUL SERVICE), unmarked,