Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, III Class with Swords, by Vincent Mayer, c.1914 Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic authored by Major R

authored by Major R

pin and catch assembly missing

on open worked crown

He crashed his aircraft behind enemy lines and was captured and held as a POW in France

AISNE-MARNE (bronze gilt

Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, III Class with Swords, by Vincent Mayer, c.1914 Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic authored by Major R(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,