Prussia, Kingdom. A 25-Year Long Service Cross For Officers, C.1910 Auction Archive Honour Medal for Faithful Service

Honour Medal for Faithful Service

1916 bound for Liverpool and disembarked there on May 7

Ich fliege um zu kämpfen un wenn es sein muss für mein Vaterland un meinen Führer zu sterben” (German - I live to fly and work to live

34 mm in diameter

Prussia, Kingdom. A 25-Year Long Service Cross For Officers, C.1910 Auction Archive Honour Medal for Faithful Service(Dienstauszeichnung fr Offiziere). Instituted 18 June 1825 by King Friedrich Wilhelm III. (1825 1920 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with a bronze trapezoid backplate and horizontal pinback, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms, the obverse with a central monogram of King Friedrich Wilhelm III, the reverse with a number 25 in Roman numerals, unmarked, measuring 39. 36 mm (w) x 43.