Picture of a Mercantile Navy Officer

[Claudio]

Dear forumites,

I just wanted to share a picture I found on Ebay (not bought yet)... it looks like he's wearing a bar like one I own, with the difference that it's missing the last Bulgarian WWI commemorative medal... The bar might have updated later with the addition of the Bulgarian medal... Too bad for 2 things: the ribbons are folded differently and there is no name of that officer on the picture.

I am just posting it out of sheer curiosity...

ciao,

Claudio

[Ulsterman]

yeah-but what are the odds of someone else having that combo with no LS medals? 1:1000?

[Deruelle]

Hi Claudio,

i think you have to buy this card. Good luck

Christophe

[Guest Rick Research]

Is Robert Noss selling the photo? I have the exact image (showing his EK1 and sleeve insignia) in my files from him, with name, position, and place. And since it was taken in 1936, could well be BEFORE the odd Bulgarian medal there, since most Germans seem to have gotten it in a wave of applications that began in 1938.

[Chris Boonzaier]

Would this not be the bog standard group of a sailor who took part inthe Fininish fighting? I would assume most of his shipmates would have gotten it. As he seems to be a merchant seaman after the war there would be no long service medals?

[Guest Rick Research]

Nothing boggy about a Cross of Liberty 3rd Class 1918.

As an Oberleutnant zS dR he was the 1st Officer of a transport steamer that delivered the German expeditionary force to Finland.

[Naxos]

Claudio,

on your bar:

1.) the Hindenburg cross is closer to the Hanseatenkreuz

2.) the Hindenburg cross is hanging lower as the Hanseatenkreuz

3.) the EK is higher then the Hanseatenkreuz

4.) the ribbons are folded different.

Now, all this could have been rearranged when the Bulgarian award was added - and the two bars are indeed identical.

I agree, you got to get the photograph

Regards, Hardy

[Claudio]

yeah-but what are the odds of someone else having that combo with no LS medals? 1:1000?

I think the odds are much less than 1:1000! I don't think that there were more than 50 officers wearing the Cross of Liberty 3rd Class 1918 and the Hanseatenkreuz of Hamburg (50'000 awards given)...

ciao,

Claudio

[Claudio]

Here's a shot of the reverse of my bar: it screams all the way "Navy Bar" to me!

Ciao,

Claudio