Military Jubilee Cross 1908

The Military Jubilee Cross was an award of Austria-Hungary. Unlike the 1898 Jubilee Medal it was not awarded at different levels to the same recipient. Therefore it was set up with three possible variants at different levels, the highest being the Military Jubilee Cross. A recipient could only wear the highest level to which they were entitled was awarded or worn.

It was founded on 14 August 1908 by Franz Joseph I to mark the sixtieth anniversary of his accession and was a variant of the 1908 Jubilee Cross intended for the armed forces of Austria-Hungary. Almost all professional soldiers, sailors and gendarmes in active service at the time the Cross was instituted were eligible, along with all conscripted personnel as long as they were in at least their second year of military service at that date or (regardless of rank or position) had fought in the Italian campaign and in a battle alongside the emperor in 1848 under the leadership of Field Marshal Josef Wenzel Radetzky von Radetz.