Austria-Hungary, Empire. A War Cross For Civil Merit, Iv Class Auction It is named to Wachtmeister

It is named to Wachtmeister (Sergeant equivalent) Benno Goetze of Feldgendarmerie (Military Police) Troop 463 and states that he was awarded the General Assault Badge on January 22

The picture postcard shows a group of highly decorated army officers

also fathering a daughter

in turn overlaid by a white cotton diamond bearing a machine-embroidered black mobile swastika

By December 23rd

Austria-Hungary, Empire. A War Cross For Civil Merit, Iv Class Auction It is named to Wachtmeister(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