Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, III Class by Rothe Hold obverse illustrating a group of

obverse illustrating a group of eleven people in costume

stitched in place to a 680 mm long x 40 mm wide cotton band

1843" (Cottbus being a city near Berlin)

Shock Troops (Stoottroepen)

dated 1922

Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, III Class by Rothe Hold obverse illustrating a group of(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 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 a white