Austria, Imperial. Order of the Knights of Malta, I Class Merit Cross consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac A Blood and Rheinland Soil

A Blood and Rheinland Soil Farmer’s Union Headquarters“Für Hervorragende Leistungen” award medal

measures 78mm (w) x 95mm (l) x 20mm (d)

measuring 103x147mm

1953 with the 3rd Technical Regiment

Austria, Imperial. Order of the Knights of Malta, I Class Merit Cross consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac A Blood and Rheinland Soil(Souverner Malteseorden I. Klasse Verdienstkreuz mit Kriegsdekoration). In silver gilt with multi coloured enamels, consisting of an Anchor Cross with white enamelled arms, obverse with a central red enamelled medallion bearing a white enamelled Maltese cross, surrounded by a ring of white enamel bearing a gilt inscription of MIL. ORDO EQUITUM MELIT BENE MERENTI (MILITARY ORDER OF MERIT), reverse medallion featuring a white maltese cross on a red