Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, III Class with Enamelled War Decoration, c.1914 Newly Listed and assigned to the 1st

and assigned to the 1st Company of the Landsturm infantry battalion Kiel

while the hardware on both sides also remains intact

indicating he had no previous military service

Metropolitan Police (PC

and dated envelope containing a single forestry Forstlehring/Forstschüler collar tab

Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, III Class with Enamelled War Decoration, c.1914 Newly Listed and assigned to the 1st(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), the reverse with a white enamelled medallion,