Austria, Imperial. A Gold Grade Bravery Medal, C.1916 Auction Archive A large number of these

A large number of these badges were un-issued and were released onto the collectors market when the old shooting ground in Innsbruck was demolished at the end of the war (they had been stored there since the war)

The task force made good time along the Reichsstrasse 26 through the Spessart Forest

Saint-Lô had fallen to Germany in 1940

measuring 33 mm (w) x 59 mm (h)

Austria, Imperial. A Gold Grade Bravery Medal, C.1916 Auction Archive A large number of these(Goldene Tapferkeitsmedaille). Type IV Issued 1914 1916. A round gilt bronze medal, the obverse depicting the rightward facing bust of Kaiser Franz Joseph, circumscribed by his name and title; the reverse inscribed Der Tapferkeit (German For Bravery), within a laurel wreath, marked bronze on edge, on a loop for suspension from a correct replacement ribbon, measuring 40. 29 mm in diameter; weighing 21. 3 grams without ribbon; in very fine condition.