Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, I Class Military Division, Collector’s Example C.1970 Auction Order of Military Merit -

Order of Military Merit - White Distinction - 1st Class - Miniature - Silver gilt and enamels

marked on exterior with Bayr

All seven airmen are buried in Rheinberg War Cemetery in Rheinberg

64 pages plus cover

featuring a double-sided white disc placed off-centre and overlaid by a central black RADwJ insignia in the form of a mobile swastika set within wheat stalks

Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, I Class Military Division, Collector’s Example C.1970 Auction Order of Military Merit -(Militrverdienstkreuz, I. Klasse Museumsstck). Constructed of silver with multi coloured enamels, consisting of a Cross Patte with its arms joined together through the quadrants by a green enameled laurel wreath, the obverse with white enameled arms outlined in red enamel, bearing a central white enameled medallion overlaid by a raised and gilded inscription of VERDIENST (MERIT), within a ring of red enamel, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and