Germany, Third Reich. A Border Protection Long Service Cross, With Miniature Archive one with its pin points

one with its pin points intact but missing push pins

Footnote: Private Thomas Hudson’s award of the Distinguished Conduct Medal was   announced in the London Gazette of 18-07-1917

with a date of 31 October 1918

assisting in the operation of a substation switchboard

This cufftitle measures approximately 44cm (or 18 inches) in length

Germany, Third Reich. A Border Protection Long Service Cross, With Miniature Archive one with its pin points(Zollgrenzschutz Dienstauszeichnung mit Miniatur). Instituted 17 February 1939. (1939 1944). Co747n1structed of bronze, on loop for suspension from a replacement ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms, the obverse bearing a raised German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, within a laurel wreath, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of FR TREUE DIENSTE IM ZOLLGRENZSCHUTZ (FOR FAITHFUL SERVICE IN BORDER PROTECTION),