Austria, Imperial. An Order of Franz Joseph, Knight, c.1917 certificate_of_authenticity Companie 15/Royal Bavarian 11th Infantry

Companie 15/Royal Bavarian 11th Infantry Regiment 3rd Company

He joined the SS as a volunteer in late 1937 and was placed in the 3rd Company of SS-Standarte “Germania”

Hindenburg Cross for Combatants (bronze gilt on metal

800 silver content)

measuring 92 mm x 17 mm

Austria, Imperial. An Order of Franz Joseph, Knight, c.1917 certificate_of_authenticity Companie 15/Royal Bavarian 11th Infantry(Kaiserlich sterreischischer Franz Joseph Orden). Instituted in 1849. Type II (1914 1918). Civil Division. In bronze gilt, featuring a red enamelled cross with a black enamelled eagle in each quadrant, a chain in the birds mouth that features the inscription VIRIBUS UNITIS, the central medallion features the initials FJ on a white enamelled field, the reverse medallion presents the year 1849, the cross is surmounted by a crown, marked with a star