Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police 8-Year Long Service Award Archive it was proposed that officers

it was proposed that officers and men would wear the same badges

reverse lower arm engraved 1944

Shorncliffe Mil

Order of the Medjidie London Gazette 4th Class 17 November 1882

Army Additional Ribbons Letter

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police 8-Year Long Service Award Archive it was proposed that officers(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei, III. Klasse fr 8 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, the obverse bearing a raised Ordnungspolizei insignia in the form of an oval oak leaf wreath overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a central raised number 8, circumscribed by an