[5] To qualify for the Commemorative Cross, recipients, civilians or military personnel of any rank, had to be mobilised for war service on any campaign between 1916 and 1918.

[1] While initially the medal was to be used only by the recipient, in 1939 King Carol II of Romania authorised, for superior ranks only, the inheritance of the medal by the eldest son or older brother of the deceased recipient, who would become an active army officer.

The inherited medal would receive a new clasp, inscribed Tradiție (tradition), and would have to be confirmed by royal decree[5] The dark iron cross has a diameter of 40 mm.

These clasps consist of small metal bars into which the name of the relevant campaign or theatre of operations was moulded (except for the last one).

In the hierarchy of the Romanian military and civil awards and decorations from the mid 1930s, the Commemorative Cross held the very low 32nd place.