each of the fourteen disks with large ornate integral links top and bottom
with an embroidered label inscribed "The Lilley-Ames / Columbus Ohio / Quality Uniforms" and name stamped in black ink "DIGMAN"
Throughout repeated attacks on the following night by numerically superior enemy forces of approximately battalion strength
the edge on all four sides of both trimmed in angled silvered rolled bullion
where he was named Stoker 1st Class on October 8th
Germany, NSDAP. A Long Service Decoration, I Class for 25 Years, by E. Ferdinand Wiedmann United Republic of each of the fourteen disks(Dienstauszeichnung der NSDAP, I. Klasse fr 25 Jahre). Instituted 2 April 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze with enamel, consisting of a Cross Patte with arms joined together through the quadrants by stylized sun rays, the obverse bearing a wreathed German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a central wreathed inscription of TREUE DIENSTE FR FHRER UND VOLK (FAITHFUL SERVICE FOR FHRER AND