Germany, NSDAP. A Long Service Award, III Class for 10 Years, with Case consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Barthelmy was captured and imprisoned

Barthelmy was captured and imprisoned by the Germans

1905 and posted as Sergeant

and two buttons (in brass

reverse center bears superimposed coat of arms on medallion

Germany, NSDAP. A Long Service Award, III Class for 10 Years, with Case consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Barthelmy was captured and imprisoned(Dienstauszeichnung der NSDAP, III. Klasse fr 10 Jahre mit Etui). Instituted 2 April 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of bronzed zink, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with ribbed and pebbled arms joined through the quadrants by stylized rays, the obverse bearing a central circular oak leaf wreath overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the revere bearing a