Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years Province of China " Sergeant-Mechanic Percival George Phillips

" Sergeant-Mechanic Percival George Phillips (East Ham) was recommended by the Brigadier-General (later Air Chief Marshal) Edgar Rainey Ludlow-Hewitt GCB

marked M1/52 for Deschler & Sohn

(Prince Alfons Abzeichen)

overall discolouration evident in the copper wire

509th Parachute Infantry Battalion

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years Province of China " Sergeant-Mechanic Percival George Phillips(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei, I. Klasse fr 25 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1944 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze, on loop for suspension from a period original cut down ribbon, consisting of an elongated Cross Patte with pebbled arms, the obverse bearing a central 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