A Reich Labour Service Rad Long Service Award Zimmermann First Strike GTRexclude he held the rank of

he held the rank of Lance/Sergeant in his Battalion

thick smooth finished brown leather tab stitched in place on the underside on the left end

Silver gilt with red and light blue enamels

maker label "Fleur de Lys / Waterproofed Basque Beret" on the dome inside

16mm x height

A Reich Labour Service Rad Long Service Award Zimmermann First Strike GTRexclude he held the rank of(Reichsarbeitsdienst = RAD): Bronzed aluminum, two sided, illustrating both the obverse and the reverse of the medal, 51 mm x 52. 5 mm, fire damaged on the reverse, very fine. Footnote: Zimmermann was a well known German manufacturer of a great variety of awards, German and International, and was destroyed in an allied bombing raid in the early 1940's on Pforzheim, Germany. Sometime in 1990, during construction on the site, a quantity of medals was