Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, III Class to the Company Commander of the German 6th Company, 31st Ersatz Battalion Province of China (Kraftfahrbewährungsabzeichen)

(Kraftfahrbewährungsabzeichen)

From 1941 to 1942

also wearing a 1914 Iron Cross I Class with ribbon bar the reverse bearing a handwritten dedication of “BREMEN 1918/19”

the obverse with a central silver medallion inscribed “FJ” (Franz Josef)

while serving from 1936-1939

Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, III Class to the Company Commander of the German 6th Company, 31st Ersatz Battalion Province of China (Kraftfahrbewährungsabzeichen)(Militrverdienstkreuz). Instituted on October 24th, 1849. Type II (1914 1918 Issue). A Military Merit Cross III Class, of multi piece construction, in silver with red and white enamels, consisting of a Cross Patte with red and white enamelled arms, with laurel leaves in the quadrants between the arms of the cross, the obverse with a central white enamelled medallion inscribed with VERDIENST (Merit), the reverse with white enamelled arms and a white