A German Fire Brigade Service Cross; Second Class GTRexclude An Iron Cross 2nd Class

An Iron Cross 2nd Class Award Document to the 1st Panzer 1943

who had been defeated by British General Allenby at the end of 1917

Footnote: This medal was produced by the company Julius Berger Tiefbau A

Sewn upon the left side behind the left breast pocket is the maker's label

The manufacturer used radium to make certain parts of the compass luminescent by mixing glowing radium powder with an aluminium oxide paste to make a thick paint which was applied to the north markers

A German Fire Brigade Service Cross; Second Class GTRexclude An Iron Cross 2nd ClassA textbook third Reich period German Feuerlschwesen Verdienstkreuz; two piece construction, in silvered bronze and white, black, and red enamels; the obverse with a white enamelled cross with a medallion in the centre depicting a mobile black enamelled swastika and a band in between the arms inscribed Fr Verdienste im Feuerlschwesen; the reverse plain; with a pierced ball suspensions; with a replacement ribbon; measuring 43. 72 mm x 43. 77 mm;