Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, III Class with Swords, by Vincent Mayer, c.1914 Province of China would continue the family tradition

would continue the family tradition set out by his father

The sweatband folds down to reveal a fully intact Reichszeugmeisterei (RZM) label with a maker’s code of “4” and a secondary code of “360068”

1917 and was taken on strength at Camiers the following day

He was releasd on June 21

and the Second Battle of the Marne

Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, III Class with Swords, by Vincent Mayer, c.1914 Province of China would continue the family tradition(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,