Austria, Empire. Two Awards And Decorations Hold SOMME DEFENSIVE

SOMME DEFENSIVE

together with four medals and one cloth badge for display purposes

with an additional stamping below but having faded with time

Helene Maerkert was born December 10th

The pants measure 370 mm in width x 1

Austria, Empire. Two Awards And Decorations Hold SOMME DEFENSIVEA grouping of two first war period Austrian awards and decorations, consisting of 1) A Military Merit Cross Third Class (Militrverdienstkreuz); constructed of silver, with a silver laurel wreath war decoration between the arms of the cross, with a white enameled center medallion, inscribed VERDIENST (German Merit), surrounded by a red ring of enamels; the reverse with white enamels; with a loop for suspension from its correct replacement ribbon with a