Bulgaria, Kingdom. A Cased Order of Civil Merit, II. Class Grand Officer Star, Austrian-made, c.1930 Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic and there was no shortage

and there was no shortage of men willing to fight

The former is marked with a Reichszeugmeisterei (RZM) logo and maker code “M5/25” for Christian Theodor Dicke

She was later posted to Freemantle in Australia

in their hardshelled case of issue

(NS-Reichskriegerbund Brustadler)

Bulgaria, Kingdom. A Cased Order of Civil Merit, II. Class Grand Officer Star, Austrian-made, c.1930 Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic and there was no shortage( ). Instituted August 2nd, 1891. (Type II 1908 1944). c. 1930. Constructed of gilded silver with multi coloured enamels, consisting of a white enameled Urdy cross adorned with green enameled thistles in the quadrants between the arms, the obverse with a central red enameled medallion bearing the Royal Cypher of its founder, surrounded by the inscription , the reverse plain, with a horizontal pinback, marked Johann Schwerdtner, Wien, measuring 99. 1