Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Medal, III Class by Mayer & Sohne, in Case Newly Listed marked "Notified in Army Orders

marked "Notified in Army Orders for December 1938 / lONDON HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE / Price 4d

both collar tabs with silver and black alternating trim

bearing a central machine-embroidered silver-grey inscription of “AFRIKA”

all of which opening with horizontal flaps with reinforced buttonholes meeting pebbled zink buttons

2 1/2" above (the) vertical

Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Medal, III Class by Mayer & Sohne, in Case Newly Listed marked "Notified in Army Orders(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