Austria, Imperial. An Order Of The Knights Of Malta, Merit Cross, C. 1916 Buy Now A Second War New Zealand

A Second War New Zealand Memorial Cross - George VI

They were ordered to travel to British ports and assist the British Royal Navy in the event of a war with Nazi Germany

40 mm long knurled needle pin

a paramilitary organization set up by former soldiers in the chaos following the end of the First World War

suspended from a hollow silver crown with a pierced horizontal ball suspension

Austria, Imperial. An Order Of The Knights Of Malta, Merit Cross, C. 1916 Buy Now A Second War New Zealand(Souverner Malteserorden Verdienstkreuz). Constructed of gilded silver with multi coloured enamels, consisting of an Anchor Cross with white enameled arms, he obverse with a central red enameled medallion bearing a white enameled Maltese cross, surrounded by a ring of white enamel bearing a gilt inscription of MIL. ORDO EQUITUM MELIT BENE MERENTI (MILITARY ORDER OF MERIT), the reverse with an analogous red enameled medallion with a gilt date of 1916,