including a wooden badge commemorating the Flag Presentation to the Warriors of Henndorf in 1939
bearing stylized “R” with Roman numeral “III”
It is dedicated “in close friendship and dearest affinity” to Fritz
The ring band is marked on the interior “STERLING”
marked in silver ink "Silberne Militär Verdienst medaille" and stamped in black ink "Scbw
Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, III Class by Scheid, in Case, c.1915 Hold including a wooden badge commemorating(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), the reverse with white enamelled arms and