Prussia, Kingdom. A Military Long Service Decoration I Class Bar For 21 Years Hold moderate contact marks and wear

moderate contact marks and wear to pommel and stylized RLB eagle/swastika crossguard

stating that he had one years' previous service with the Queen's Own Rifles

June 1917 and suffered from shell shock so was sent to hospital when (sic) he remained 5 mos

single staple-bound

Likely of German manufacture

Prussia, Kingdom. A Military Long Service Decoration I Class Bar For 21 Years Hold moderate contact marks and wear(Militar Dienstauszeichnungen) Instituted 18 June 1825. A bar of gilded non magnetic metal, bearing the cipher of Friedrich Wilhelm III (F. W. III.) on a pebbled background, affixed on a blue ribbon with yellow edges with a metal backer with horizontal pinback with a round wire catch, measuring 42. 50 mm (w) x 39. 14 mm (h), very fine.