Austria, Second Republic. A Decoration For Science And Art By Anton Reitterer Newly Listed and Medal for Many Years

and Medal for Many Years of Married Life

measuring 135 mm (w) x 88 mm (h)

date stamped "1939" and stamped "LBA" (Luftwaffe Bekleidungs Amt = Airforce Clothing Department) on the termination point of the strap

Footnote: Earl Henry Sparks (213712) signed his Non-Permanent Active Militia of Canada Attestation Paper with the 2nd Battalion

He was struck off strength as "Medically Unfit" on March 19

Austria, Second Republic. A Decoration For Science And Art By Anton Reitterer Newly Listed and Medal for Many Years(Ehrenzeichen fr Wissenschaft und Kunst). Instituted 27 July 1955. (1955 present issue). A Decoration for Science and Art set, consisting of a neck badge, constructed of gilded bronze with multi coloured enamels, on loop for suspension from its period original neck ribbon, consisting of a Maltese Cross, the obverse with red enameled arms, in turn overlaid by a narrow Maltese Cross with white enameled arms, with a central gilt medallion bearing a