Austria, Empire. A Military Long Service Decoration, Ii Class, Officer For Forty Years' Service, GTRexclude inscribed "ZWOLLE" below

inscribed "ZWOLLE" below

175 mm x 237 mm

two reproduction photographs

naming 12 German Wehrmacht personnel whose unit information indicates that the awards were issued for anti-Partisan operations in the Balkan

The U-Boat could easily have ripped its way through the destroyer's thin side plates and de Chair was acting to save his ship

Austria, Empire. A Military Long Service Decoration, Ii Class, Officer For Forty Years' Service, GTRexclude inscribed "ZWOLLE" belowType III (1890 1911) In bronze gilt with black enamels, measuring 33. 5 mm (w) x 62 mm (h) inclusive of its crown suspension, fine chipping evident in the black enamels on all four arms, original triangular ribbon with hook and eye, better than very fine.