Austria, Imperial. An Order Of Franz Joseph, Knight’s Cross, By Vincenz Mayers Söhne certificate_of_authenticity with orange-yellow lettering “Feld-Gendarmerie”

with orange-yellow lettering “Feld-Gendarmerie”

Footnote: Killed in Action November 11th 1917

Alphee (bronze gilt with light green

which is possibly when his original Soldbuch was destroyed

Austria, Imperial. An Order Of Franz Joseph, Knight’s Cross, By Vincenz Mayers Söhne certificate_of_authenticity with orange-yellow lettering “Feld-Gendarmerie”(Kaiserlich sterreichischer Franz Joseph Orden Ritterkreuz). Instituted 2 December 1849 by Emperor Franz Joseph I. (1849 1918 issue). Constructed of Gold with multi coloued enamels, consisting of a Ruppert Cross with red enameled arms, the obverse bearing a central white enameled disc overlaid by a raised Gold monogram of Emperor Franz Joseph I, with a double headed and black enameled Austrian imperial eagle joining the quadrants, its beaks clutching