Austria, Empire. A Bravery Medal, II. Class, Type I Franz Joseph I Variant (1849-1859 Issue) United Republic of remarkable and unpublished photographed (sic)

remarkable and unpublished photographed (sic) shows a German U-Boat actually stopping a Dutch liner

He was survived by his wife in Toronto

with three officers among them

both unmarked and measuring 38 mm (w) x 120 mm (l)

circumscribed by a Russian Cyrillic inscription indicating that the medal was issued to commemorate the centenary of the Imperial Free Economic Society

Austria, Empire. A Bravery Medal, II. Class, Type I Franz Joseph I Variant (1849-1859 Issue) United Republic of remarkable and unpublished photographed (sic)(Tapferkeitsmedaille). Instituted July 17th, 1789. Type I (1849 1859). A Bravery Medal, II. Class, consisting of a round medal constructed of silver, with a horizontally oriented oval fixed loop for suspension from its period original tri fold ribbon, the obverse with a leftward facing effigy of Franz Joseph I, circumscribed Franz Joseph I Kaiser von Oesterreich in capital letters, the reverse inscribed Der Tapferkeit (For Bravery) within a laurel