A War Merit Cross First Class Without Swords By Austrian Maker Karl Schiermeister Newly Listed A Manitoba Canadian Reserve Battalion

A Manitoba Canadian Reserve Battalion Cap Badge - In die-stamped white metal

exhibiting contact marks on the exterior

During the First World War he served on both the East and Western fronts

with Royal Chyper of King Peter I

1933 German Labour Day Tinnie - Bronze gilt on die-stamped metal

A War Merit Cross First Class Without Swords By Austrian Maker Karl Schiermeister Newly Listed A Manitoba Canadian Reserve BattalionA Kriegsverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse ohne Schwertern; maltese cross in silvered tombak; the obverse pebbled, with a circular raised border of oak leaves on the obverse with a raised mobile swastika in the center; the reverse plain with a vertical slender banjo style pinback, a barrel hinge and a rounded catch; marked 50 for Karl Schiermeister of Vienna on the pin; measuring 48. 29 mm x 48. 59 mm; weighing 17. 0 grams; accompanied by its original case of