Germany, RAD. A Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years, Women’s Version Auction Archive who created a chain of

who created a chain of radar stations around the UK which enabled advance information to be available to the Royal Air Force of incoming German aircraft and was instrumental in the winning of the 1940 Battle of Britain

08 mm (w) x 48

the reverse bearing an integral hinge and flattened horizontal pinback meeting a round wire catch

Annie Lockley (formerly Hughes) of Brantford

Germany, RAD. A Long Service Award, I Class for 25 Years, Women’s Version Auction Archive who created a chain of(Dienstauszeichnung Reichsarbeitsdienst I. Klasse Frauen). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1943 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, consisting of a double sided oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the top and bottom by ribbon, the obverse bearing a central raised mobile swastika, situated within wheat stalks, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of FR TREUE