A Croatian Order Of Merit Third Class With Miniature Grand Cross Archive as part of the 6th

as part of the 6th Submarine Flotilla and assigned to the H Class Submarine H

dent on reverse

with Official War Department HQ

assigned to the Naval Observatory on May 18th

The reverse has a matching portrait

A Croatian Order Of Merit Third Class With Miniature Grand Cross Archive as part of the 6thOrder of Merit with Miniature Grand Cross Third Class Breast badge in silver and enamels, with miniature Grand Cross attached to ribbon. Cross measures 36 x 36mm, mounted on original ribbon. This particular example is a very first issue of this Order having a low profile, at the same level as enamel (not raised above the enamel), composed of the Croatian Coat of Arms in form of a triple braid (known in Croatian as 'pleter'). Later manufactured