Austria, Empire. A Franz Joseph Order, Commander Cross, By Vincent Mayer’s Söhne, C.1914 Newly Listed an olive branch in his

an olive branch in his raised right hand

he lived in Liegnitz (Silesia

told of meeting

Signature on Post War Photo: Herman Maringgele

Son: Private Thomas George Fowles

Austria, Empire. A Franz Joseph Order, Commander Cross, By Vincent Mayer’s Söhne, C.1914 Newly Listed an olive branch in his(Kaiserlich sterreichischer Franz Joseph Orden). Instituted on 2 December 1849 by Emperor Franz Joseph I. In bronze gilt, featuring a Latin cross with red enameled arms with a black enameled double headed crowned eagle clutching a length of chain, obverse centre with a white enameled medallion inscribed FJ in gilded bronze letters, with Order motto of "VIRIBUS UNITIS" ("WITH UNITED FORCES") inscribed in gilded bronze, the reverse of the cross with the