Austria, Imperial. A German Knight’s Order, Marian Neck Cross Auction 2) A War Merit Cross

2) A War Merit Cross Second Class without Swords

surrounding a central Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika over a hollow void

the outer frame trimmed in a rolled gold-coloured bullion wire cord

the interior presents a raised section for the star

Footnote: The 66th Battalion was raised in and mobilized in Edmonton effective August 15th 1915

Austria, Imperial. A German Knight’s Order, Marian Neck Cross Auction 2) A War Merit Cross(Marienkreuz des Deutschen Ritterordens). Instituted on March 26, 1871. (Issued 1885 1918). A silver Latin cross with black and white enameled arms, the obverse with a red enameled Geneva cross on a white field, surrounded by a black ring of enamels, inscribed ORDO TEUT HUMANITATI in capital lettering, the reverse with a similar white field, dated 1871, surrounded by a ring of black enamels, on a loop for suspension from its period original neck