Germany, RAD. A Long Service Award, III Class for 12 Years Auction Archive applying for appointment to the

applying for appointment to the "Reserve of Officers

Heeringen began serving for the Ministry of War in the rank of Major

with 5 clasps for Football and Cricketing events 1935-37

Instituted 16 September 1886 by Duke Ernst I

58mm (w) x 108

Germany, RAD. A Long Service Award, III Class for 12 Years Auction Archive applying for appointment to the(Dienstauszeichnung Reichsarbeitsdienst, III. Klasse fr 12 Jahre). Constructed of a silvered alloy, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, consisting of a double sided oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the top and bottom by ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised Reicharbeitsdienst (Reich Labour Service RAD) insignia in the form of a shovel head overlaid by a mobile swastika and flanked by wheat stalks, the