Austria, Empire. A Military Merit Cross, Ii Class Cross With Iii Class War Decoration, By Rudolph Souval, C.1915 Auction Archive 33 mm diameter

33 mm diameter

maker "Frank & Reif Stuttgart"

Early in the afternoon of the 3rd he was wounded by machine gun fire

Panzerkorps

constructed of aluminum in the shape of a national eagle clutching a mobile wreathed swastika

Austria, Empire. A Military Merit Cross, Ii Class Cross With Iii Class War Decoration, By Rudolph Souval, C.1915 Auction Archive 33 mm diameter(Militrverdienstkreuz). Instituted on 22 October 1849. II Period. (1914 1918 Issue). A silver cross patte with white enamelled arms edged in red enamel, a gilded laurel wreath between the arms of the cross, the obverse centre features a white enamelled medallion edged in red, with the word VERDIENST (MERIT broken into VER and DIENST to fit the centre, the reverse is plain in white enamel, the link ring is stamped with two hallmarks: a Dianas head with