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 pinback hanger inscribed "FOR MERIT"

pinback hanger inscribed "FOR MERIT" with sub-hanger inscribed "PROVINCIAL"

30 mm (w) x 76

and situated above a printed form with handwritten information indicating that “ПЕТАР БАЛАЋ” (“PETAR BALAĆ”) has been awarded the V Class Cross of the Order

overall length is 105mm

Ontario and working as a traveller with 2 years experience with the 7th Regiment

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 pinback hanger inscribed "FOR MERIT"(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