Austria, Empire. An Honour Decoration of the Red Cross, Officer Cross with War Decoration, c. 1918 Hold the obverse bears the left-facing

the obverse bears the left-facing bust of Wilhelm II

The previous month

the reverse with a central black enamelled medallion bearing a silver crowned Bavarian lion rampant within a white enamelled border in the form of a buckled belt

They crawled around twisted pieces of steel that had once been supporting arches

circumscribed by “Für’s Vaterland”

Austria, Empire. An Honour Decoration of the Red Cross, Officer Cross with War Decoration, c. 1918 Hold the obverse bears the left-facing(Ehrenzeichen vom Roten Kreuz). Instituted August 14th, 1914. A silver cross with silver, red, white, and green enamels, the obverse with a circular central white enamelled medallion bearing a red enamelled Greek Cross (Red Cross), surrounded by a band of red enamels inscribed with Patriae ac Humanitati (Country and Humanity) in Latin, with a War Decoration in the form of a green enamelled laurel and oak wreath superimposed onto the cross, the reverse