Germany, Third Reich. A Customs Service Decoration consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac measuring 34 mm x 28

measuring 34 mm x 28 mm in diameter

and that he is leaving due to an illness

suffering gunshot wounds to his left arm

United Spanish War Veterans 31st Annual Encampment at Framingham

Germany, Third Reich. A Customs Service Decoration consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac measuring 34 mm x 28(Zollgrenzschutz Ehrenzeichen). Instituted 17 February 1939. (1939 1944 issue). Constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with ribbed and pebbled arms, the obverse bearing a central circular oak leaf wreath, overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a central circular oak leaf wreath, surrounding a raised inscription of FR TREUE DIENSTE