Germany, Third Reich. A Badge For Fire Brigade Service, By The Prussian Mint GTRexclude measuring 106 mm x 18

measuring 106 mm x 18 mm

and soon drafted by the 2nd Battalion in the French theatre

Our men worked like Trojans and kept a fairly clear way to move until one night's downpour lasting an hour

under the bust

Germany, Third Reich. A Badge For Fire Brigade Service, By The Prussian Mint GTRexclude measuring 106 mm x 18(Erinnerungszeichen Verdienste um das Feuerlschwesen). Instituted 21 December 1933 by Wilhelm Frick. (1934 1936 issue). Constructed of silver, the obverse with a central raised firefighter clutching a hose and blowing a horn, above a burning building, circumscribed by an inscription of FR VERDIENSTE UM DAS FEUERLSCHWESEN (FOR MERIT IN THE FIRE BRIGADE), with a mobile swastika at the bottom, the reverse with a vertical pinback, maker marked PREUSS.