Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, III Class by Scheid, in Case, c.1915 GTRexclude From 1919 onwards all awards

From 1919 onwards all awards were in silver

the obverse of one with a gilded circular laurel leaf wreath with a central mobile swastika

The document is signed twice by a captain

inscribed with the surname "Findlay" with his forename partially visible and coding after his surname on the reverse of the upper flap

5 cm-long zink bar with a horizontal pinback and green wool reverse liner

Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, III Class by Scheid, in Case, c.1915 GTRexclude From 1919 onwards all awards(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