Austria, Imperial. A Bravery Medal, I Class in Silver with Second Award Bar Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic Footnote: The medal was instituted

Footnote: The medal was instituted on September 27

constructed of a heavy red cotton blend

and is as follows:On the attack of the left flank

the Second World War (when it fought in the Western Desert during 1941-1943) as well as in South Africa's "Border War" during 1975 to 1986 (when it fought in South-West Africa

11 December 1917

Austria, Imperial. A Bravery Medal, I Class in Silver with Second Award Bar Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic Footnote: The medal was instituted(Tapferkeitsmedaille). Instituted July 19th, 1789. Type IV (1914 1916 Issue). A Bravery Medal I. Class, a round silver medal, with original flat suspension and connected to its period original ribbon featuring a single repetition clasp, the obverse depicting a rightward facing effigy of Kaiser Franz Joseph of Austria, circumscribed Franz Joseph I. V. G. G Kaiser v. Oesterreich, marked Leisek near the bottom, the reverse inscribed Der Tapferkeit (For