Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, III Class, SM U-14, 1917 GTRexclude and pinned with gilded rank

and pinned with gilded rank pips

Obverse center shows symbolic “V” for victory and attached to the arms of the V are American and British flags

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A postcard from a Gemeinschaftslager Weichsel

Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, III Class, SM U-14, 1917 GTRexclude and pinned with gilded rank(Militrverdienstkreuz). Instituted on October 24th, 1849. Type II (1914 1918 Issue). A Military Merit Cross III Class, of multi piece construction, in silver with red and white enamels, consisting of a Cross Patte with red and white enamelled arms, with gilded laurel leaves in the quadrants between the arms of the cross, the obverse with a central white enamelled medallion inscribed with VERDIENST (Merit), the reverse with white enamelled arms and