Austria, Imperial. A Military Long Service Decoration, III Class for Officers to Hauptmann Aurel Spitzka, c.1900 Hold Collingwood on April 19

Collingwood on April 19

along with contact marks overall

Footnote: Walter Aubrey Woolls was born on May 10

where he was the ship's torpedo officer

Austria, Imperial. A Military Long Service Decoration, III Class for Officers to Hauptmann Aurel Spitzka, c.1900 Hold Collingwood on April 19(Militrdienstabzeichen fr 25 Jahre). Instituted September 19th, 1849. Type III (1890 1913). III Class for Officers for 25 Years. A Military Long Service Decoration for 25 Years, a bronze gilt Cross Patte with dimpled edges, the obverse with a double headed single crowned silver eagle bearing the Austro Hungarian crest on its chest, the reverse plain with center engraved DEM HAUPTMANN AUREL SPITZKA VON SEINEN KAMERADEN 1878 20 9 1903, on a fixed loop