Bravery Medal

AUH016  Tapferkeitsmedaille

• Medal instituted on 19 July 1789 for Non Commissioned Officers and Private Soldiers who had distinguished themselves before the enemy.
• On the 19th August 1848 Kaiser Ferdinand divided the Silver Bravery Medal into two classes - a First and a Second Class.
• The Bravery Medals displayed the reigning Kaiser's head on the obverse.
• The obverse showed six crossed regimental colours surrounded by a laurel wreath and the motto: "Der Tapferkeit".
• An Imperial Decree of the 29th November 1915 introduced bars for repeat awards and these took the form of an 8mm wide smooth rustless iron bar.

Austria-Hungary