1st Army Aero Units Air Defence
for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action against enemy tanks at Noville
Iron Cross 2nd Class 1870 - with Oak Leaves "25" with original ribbon as worn
unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of manufacture by Karl Hensler
Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, III Class with Enamelled War Decoration, c.1914 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac 1st Army Aero Units Air(Militrverdienstkreuz). Instituted on October 24th, 1849. Type II (1914 1918 Issue). A Military Merit Cross III Class, of multi piece construction, in silver with red and white enamels, consisting of a Cross Patte with red and white enamelled arms, with gilded laurel leaves in the quadrants between the arms of the cross, the obverse with a central white enamelled medallion inscribed with VERDIENST (Merit), the reverse with a white enamelled medallion,