Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, III Class with Swords, by Vincent Mayer, c.1914 Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic / APRIL 1st 1886 -

/ APRIL 1st 1886 - APRIL 25th 1957 / "LOVE IS EVERYTHING DEATH IS NAUGHT" " His daughter

each star point with nine emanating rays

5 mm wide x 950 mm long thick leather belt

itself with hooked quillons

protestant

Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, III Class with Swords, by Vincent Mayer, c.1914 Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic / APRIL 1st 1886 -(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 gilded laurel leaves in the quadrants between the arms of the cross, the obverse with a central white enamelled medallion inscribed with VERDIENST (Merit) with the letters on a silver bar in two lines,