Bavaria, Kingdom. A Military Merit Order Of St. Michael Merit Cross, Iii Class With Swords, C.1915 Archive and Hungarian

and Hungarian

maker marked “L59” for “Alois Rettenmaier

travelling to and from the United Kingdom by air

he was Honorably Discharged on December 12

inscribed "ПАМЯТНИКБ ЦАРЮ МУЧЕНИКУ" (Monument to the Martyr King)

Bavaria, Kingdom. A Military Merit Order Of St. Michael Merit Cross, Iii Class With Swords, C.1915 Archive and Hungarian(Militar Verdienstorden) Instituted 19 July 1866. A Maltese cross paty constructed of gilded copper, the obverse centre bears a medallion with a crowned L cipher on a black enamel background, encompassed by a white enamel border detailed to resemble a belt with the inscription MERENTI, the cross arms are pebbled, the reverse centre bears a crowned lion rampant encompassed by a border detailed to resemble a belt with the date 1866, the obverse top