Germany, Ss. A Ss 8-Year Long Service Award Archive Instituted 25 November 1942

Instituted 25 November 1942

to commemorate the victorious conclusion of the 1878-1879 war against Turkey

A Second War 6th Duke of Connaught's Royal Canadian Hussars  Cap Badge - (Montreal

Madras Sappers  & Miners) Naming is engraved in italic script

Germany, Ss. A Ss 8-Year Long Service Award Archive Instituted 25 November 1942(SS Dienstauszeichnung fr 8 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, the obverse bearing a raised swastika with ribbed arms, overlaid by a raised oak leaf wreath with central double Sig runes, the reverse with a raised number 8, overlaid by an inscription of FR TREUE DIENSTE IN DER SS (FOR FAITHFUL SERVICE IN THE SS), unmarked,