Germany, Third Reich. A Badge For Merit In Fire Fighting By The Prussian Mint Newly Listed presumably the volunteer detachment of

presumably the volunteer detachment of future SS-Obergruppenführer Leo von Jena (1876–1957) in the Freikorps von Oven

Sergeant First Class Anderson by his inspirational leadership

reverse with raised inscription FÜR VERDIENSTE IM GRUBENWEHRWESEN (FOR SERVICE IN MINING RESCUE)

old repair to one side of the bottom carriage

Private Harrington embarked Montreal

Germany, Third Reich. A Badge For Merit In Fire Fighting By The Prussian Mint Newly Listed presumably the volunteer detachment of(Erinnerungszeichen Verdienste um das Feuerlschwesen). Instituted 21 December 1933 by Wilhelm Frick. (1934 1936 issue). Constructed of silver, vertical pinback, the obverse with a central fireman blowing a horn and clutching a hose, above a burning building, circumscribed by an inscription of FR VERDIENSTE UM DAS FEUERLSCHWESEN (FOR MERIT IN FIRE FIGHTING), with a mobile swastika at the bottom, the reverse maker marked for PREUSS. STAATSMNZE for the