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 both edged in golden/yellow threads

both edged in golden/yellow threads

The attacks stopped only a month before the war in Europe ended

stating that he had four years' previous military service with the Imperial Yeomanry and three years' service with the 101st Edmonton Fusiliers

many fell to their death or died of exposure

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 both edged in golden/yellow threads(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