Austria-Hungary, Empire. A War Cross For Civil Merit, Iv Class Hold and a broad ring on

and a broad ring on the outside

1944 found him conditionally fit for service

101x149mm   Footnote: All Knight's Cross Recipient Photographs originate from a single & extremely large collection acquired by eMedals in 2008

published by Francis Bannerman Son of Blue Point

Monks Horton C

Austria-Hungary, Empire. A War Cross For Civil Merit, Iv Class Hold and a broad ring on(Kriegskreuz fr Zivilverdienste IV. Klasse). Instituted 16 August 1915. (1915 1918 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze, consisting of a Cross Patte, the obverse joined through the quadrants by an oval oak leaf wreath, overlaid by a central medallion bearing the monogram of Emperor Franz Joseph, circumscribed by an inscription of MERITO CIVIL TEMPORE BELLO MCMXV (CIVIL MERIT IN A TIME OF WAR 1915), the reverse with two visible rivets securing the