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    Here is a nice photo that I have got with the name Major Georg Kraut - can someone please confirm that and give me a list of his awards.... I can`t make scans at the moment so the photo quality is not the best, sorry for that....

    What I can see he has:

    on the breast:

    EK1

    wound badge black

    elephant order

    Carl Eduard Kriegskreuz

    on the neck:

    some kind of SEHO with swords

    on the bar:

    EK2

    2 hanseatic crosses (?)

    red eagle 4

    25y long service cross

    DSWA-medal

    Centenarmedal

    SEHO

    Bavaria MVO

    Sachsen AO

    ???

    colonial medal or china medal

    ???

    waiting for your good ideas now.... :rolleyes:

    Heiko

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    Hello Heiko:

    the ref. book on officers serving in the Schutztruppe fuer Deutsch-Ostafrika 1914-1918 shows this picture as being of Maj. georg Kraut. He was with Gen.v.Lettow-Vorbeck until the end.

    Time constraint now prevent me from listing his awards and I do not know how to post images etc. Of note is the white border of his hat indicating Schutztruppe fuer deutsch-Ostafrika.

    Bernhard H. Holst

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    Hello Heiko:

    Entries in the afore mentioned officers list shows the following awards for Maj. Georg Kraut :

    R.A.O. 4.Kl.; Dienstausz.Kreuz; Bay.Mil.Verd.Orden 4.Kl., R.K.2.Kl, d. Grosshzgl.Hessisch.Verd.Ordens Philipps des Grossmuetugen; R.K.2.Kl. des Saechs.-Ernest.Hausordens and des Kgl.Saechs.Albrechts-Ordens. R.K.des Bulg.St.Alexander-Ordens, Russ. St.Stanislaus ordens 3.Kl. Eis.Kreuz 2.Kl.2.Sep.1916.

    the above listing may not be complete because some awards were not bestowed until after his return to Germany in 1919.

    On a personal note I would like to point out that Gen. Wahle, Maj.G.Kraut, Hptm. (later Gen.Maj.z.V.) Th. Tafel and of course Gen.v.Lettow-Vorbeck were well known to youth (incl.this writer) through the various writings popular prior to 1945.

    Bernhard H. Holst

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