Germany, Ss. A Miniature Long Service Medal, Iii Class For 8 Years certificate_of_authenticity Accompanied by nine loose photographs

Accompanied by nine loose photographs of same

Instituted 1789

First three titles are inscribed "CANADA" in an arched ribbon banner frame

Both pant leg cuffs are vented with six buttons each and corresponding reinforced stitching on the button holes

and is commemorated on page 89 of the First World War Book of Remembrance

Germany, Ss. A Miniature Long Service Medal, Iii Class For 8 Years certificate_of_authenticity Accompanied by nine loose photographs(SS Dienstauszeichnung III. Klasse fr 8 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Die struck in bronze, the obverse bearing a raised swastika with ribbed arms, overlaid by central double Sig runes, set within a circular oak leaf wreath, the reverse bearing a raised number 8, overlaid by an inscription of FR TREUE DIENSTE IN DER SS (FOR FAITHFUL SERVICE IN THE SS), unmarked however likely of Deschler manufacture, measuring 15 mm in