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    On 12/03/2013 at 19:27, jaba1914 said:

    Medal bar of KptLt Johannes von Lossnitzer, commander of L 16, LZ 120, L41 and L 70. He died during the last raid over England. Onboard of L 70 was also FrgKpt Peter Strasser.

     

    07.01.1911 Preußen - Rettungsmedaille
    06.08.1915 Sachsen - Albrecht Orden Ritter 2 mit Schwertern
    03.03.1916 Bayern - MVO 4.Kl.mit Schwertern
    00.00.1916 Schamburg-Lippe - Kriegsverdienstkreuz
    15.11.1917 Coburg-Gotha - SEHO Ritter 1.Kl.mit Schwertern

     

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    What an absolutely beautiful medal bar! What I like the most, besides its provenience, of course, is the fact it combines bravery awards from five different German states, without any commemoratives, jubilee medals, long service awards and such. The Rettungsmedaille am Bande is just the icing on the cake!

     

    One minor correction, though: the decoration in last place is from the principality of Lippe (so-called "Lippe-Detmold"), not from Schaumburg-Lippe. No doubt you know this, but others that stumble upon this remarkable thread might not...

     

    :whistle:

     

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    Great group Graf. I love the pictures from WW1 in the navy uniform.

    But he wasn't on the Marinefliegertruppe during WW1.

     

    Attached the service record of him from Ehrenrangliste der Marine

     

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    • 4 months later...

    As last post of this year, I want to post this nice MP.

     

    It belongs to Flugmechanikermaat Bernhard Friedrich Wilhelm Sobol

    From Jun. - Sep. 1915 at Flieger-Ersatz-Abteilung 6.

    Changed to the Navy on Oct. 1915 and served at SFS Holtenau.

    Mar. - Aug. 1916 with the Flieger-Abteilung Xanthi.

    This unit was a combined Army and Navy flying unit before the Army left Xanthi.

    The signature of Hptm (Army) Hans Arndt who led the unit until Sep. 1916.

     

    Happy New Year

    Alex

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