Austria, Imperial. An Order of Franz Joseph, Commander’s Star in Gold, by V. Mayer & Sohne visually-hidden including a Flight Personnel Unteroffizier

including a Flight Personnel Unteroffizier shoulder strap

Footnote: The Luftwaffe-Flak Abzeichen was a German military decoration of the Second War

and Air Force Commendation Medal (in bronze gilt

“My war memories”

who would be killed in the crash of the Hindenburg at Lakehurst eight and a half years later

Austria, Imperial. An Order of Franz Joseph, Commander’s Star in Gold, by V. Mayer & Sohne visually-hidden including a Flight Personnel Unteroffizier(Franz Joseph Orden). Instituted on 2 December 1849 by Franz Joseph I. A silver star consisting of eight clusters of faceted rays in the arms, the obverse superimposed insignia in 18K Gold features a red enamelled cross with the imperial double headed eagle, partially enameled in black, shown in the angles of the cross, the two heads of the eagle bear in their beaks a loop of chain with the emperors motto VIRIBUS UNITIS (WITH UNITED FORCES) applied at