Austria, Imperial. An Order Of Franz Joseph, Grand Cross With Swords (Rothe Copy) Hold 12125576 FOR MILITARY MERIT AND

12125576 FOR MILITARY MERIT AND FOR WOUNDS RECEIVED IN ACTION resulting in his death

Of quality Russian Imperial manufacture

He graduated from Coronado High School

Footnote: Karl Böhm of Vienna was a manufacturer of the Order of Franz Joseph between 1914 and 1918

Footnote: Badge was examined by Mr Tomislav Muhić (author of the book "Serbian and Yugoslavian Orders and Decorations") who concluded the badge "is a textbook example by official Imperial Austrian maker Karl Fleischhacker

Austria, Imperial. An Order Of Franz Joseph, Grand Cross With Swords (Rothe Copy) Hold 12125576 FOR MILITARY MERIT AND(Kaiserlich sterreichischer Franz Joseph Orden). Instituted on 2 December 1849 by Franz Joseph I. Post 1945 Rothe Copy. A Grand Cross presenting as a gilded bronze Latin cross with richly detailed, red enamelled arms with a black enamelled double headed crowned eagle clutching a length of chain, with a central white enamelled medallion inscribed FJ in gilded bronze letters, with Order motto of VIRIBUS UNITIS (WITH UNITED FORCES) inscribed in gilded