Austria, Empire. An Order Of The Knights Of Malta, Neck Badge Merit Cross With War Decoration, C.1916 Hold including five Deutscher Skiverband tinnies

including five Deutscher Skiverband tinnies

resident of Toronto when he signed his Attestation Paper as a Private with the 134th Infantry Battalion "48th Highlanders"

A first war period medal bar with three medals

constructed of tan-coloured

Austria, Empire. An Order Of The Knights Of Malta, Neck Badge Merit Cross With War Decoration, C.1916 Hold including five Deutscher Skiverband tinnies(Souverner Malteseorden Silbernes Verdienstkreuz). Neck badge worn on Breast Version. A gilded silvered Maltese Cross in white enamel, the centre medallion presents a white enamelled Maltese Cross over a red enamel field, circumscribed by a ring of white enamel, inscribed MIL. ORDO EQUITUM MELIT BENE MERENTI (Military Order of Merit), the reverse with a red enameled medallion dated 1916, surrounded by a ring of white enamel depicting an open ended