An Austrian Merit Cross "Piis Meritis" For Military Chaplains Archive Miniature Pour-le-Merite for button hole

Miniature Pour-le-Merite for button hole wear

It was intended in 1928 to offer passage between Friedrichshafen

The presentation was made by the Mayoress of Lewisham who paid a high tribute to the courage shown by these nurses

The German soldier who carries this safe conduct is using it as a sign of his genuine wish to give himself up

It is fronted by a Saxony gilt aluminum cockade with a green felt centre

An Austrian Merit Cross "Piis Meritis" For Military Chaplains Archive Miniature Pour-le-Merite for button holeAn Austrian Merit Cross "Piis Meritis" for Military Chaplains 2nd Class, Type III (1911 1918); Silver, with blue enamelled centrepieces, 51. 8 mm x 59. 5 mm, on a triangular white peacetime ribbon, intact enamels, light contact, near extremely fine.