Germany, Nsdap. A Long Service Award, Ii Class For 15 Years, With Party Membership Book To Dr. Paul Schmidt GTRexclude He was inducted into the

He was inducted into the Army at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indiana on September 22

the lower edge of the image overlaid by Siegel’s handwritten signature in silver ink

1917 at Passchendaele (he) was injured in (the) back by (the) side of (a) trench being blown in by (a) shell

while the blade itself retains its crossgraining

magnetic metal hilt with the seam covered by an intact leather buffer pad

Germany, Nsdap. A Long Service Award, Ii Class For 15 Years, With Party Membership Book To Dr. Paul Schmidt GTRexclude He was inducted into the(Dienstauszeichnung der NSDAP, II. Klasse fr 15 Jahre mit NSDAP Mitgliedsbuch). Constructed of silvered bronze with enamels, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with ribbed and blue enameled arms joined together through the quadrants by stylized sun rays, the obverse bearing a central blue enameled disc overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, in turn superimposed over a