Germany, Third Reich. A War Merit Cross, I Class Without Swords, By Karl Gschiermeister United Republic of WWI 8th Mounted Rifle Battalion

WWI 8th Mounted Rifle Battalion Cap Badge and Collar Badge - Cap Badge (browning copper

Captain Martin resigned his commission and was Honorably Discharged due to wounds on June 7

pingback missing

Footnote: The Order of Saint Stephen (Official: Sacro Militare Ordine di Santo Stefano Papa e Martire

he return to Victory I on March 31

Germany, Third Reich. A War Merit Cross, I Class Without Swords, By Karl Gschiermeister United Republic of WWI 8th Mounted Rifle Battalion(Kriegsverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse ohne Schwerter). A Maltese Cross in silvered tombak, with angled notches in the end of each arm to produce an eight pointed cross, the edges of each arm flat and the field of each arm finely pebbled, the centre obverse features a circular wreath of oak leaves, the central field surrounded by this wreath bears a swastika, the reverse presents a vertical hinged pin, maker mark 50 designating Karl Gschiermeister of Vienna,