Austria, Republic. An Order of the Knights of Malta, Grand Cross, by E. Gardino Cravanzola, c.1950 Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic (Type I: 1881-1941)

(Type I: 1881-1941)

many fell to their death or died of exposure

33 mm x 59 mm

Finely 851-engraved steel die

1919 at Stoke War Hospital

Austria, Republic. An Order of the Knights of Malta, Grand Cross, by E. Gardino Cravanzola, c.1950 Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic (Type I: 1881-1941)(Souverner Ritter und Hospitalorden vom heiligen Johannes von Jerusalem von Rhodos und von Malta). Instituted circa 1099 (c. 1950 issue). The Sash Badge, in bronze gilt and red and white enamels, consisting of a four point cross bearing a central red enamelled medallion with a white enamelled Maltese Cross, surrounded by a white ring of enamels inscribed Mil. Ordo. Equitum Melit. Bene Merenti in gilt capitalized letters, the reverse medallion in red