Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, III Class, by Aek Köchert, c.1915 Hold pebbled aluminum button

pebbled aluminum button

all measuring 136

for extraordinary service to Colombia

2nd Canadian Tank Battalion at Petawawa

one cross with red

Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, III Class, by Aek Köchert, c.1915 Hold pebbled aluminum button(Militrverdienstkreuz). Instituted on October 24th, 1849. Type II (1914 1918 Issue). A Military Merit Cross III Class, extremely well executed 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 white enamelled arms and center,