Austria, Imperial. A 1873 War Medal, With Case Auction Archive War Merit Cross - Cross

War Merit Cross - Cross Third Class with Swords

prior to forming Ross Scouts in the Great War - a remarkable career retold in Neil Speeds entertaining biography Born to Fight North West Canada 1885

In a second letter of Commendation from Burnham

Invalid states that he was treated for Anemia for two years prior to enlistment

and “Afrika 1945” on the other

Austria, Imperial. A 1873 War Medal, With Case Auction Archive War Merit Cross - Cross(Kriegsmedaille 1873). Instituted 2 December 1873. A circular, gilded bronze medal, the centre obverse presents the laurel crowned head of Franz Joseph I facing right, circumscribed FRANZ JOSEPH I. KAIER V. STERREICH. KNIG V. BHMEN ETC. APOST. KONIG V. UNGARN (FRANZ JOSEPH I, EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA, KING OF BOHEMIA ETC. APOSTOLIC KING OF HUNGARY), the centre reverse presents the date 2. DECEMBER 1873 within a wreath of oak and laurel, measuring 36. 16 mm