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    webr55

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    1. Now this is a very peculiar evidence from 1945: a "W. Vater" from the Paderborn area lost a case with his HHOX medal bar at the station and was looking for it. So if he is the (former Lt dR) Vater in our list, we now know at least his first initial. Westfälisches Volksblatt, 4.1.1945
    2. Lt dL Lakenberg was a teacher in Gladbeck, but I don't have his first name. Buersche Zeitung, 14.11.17 It looks like the Emil Flender in our list might be rather Emil Fleuder, from Hervest-Dorsten. Buersche Zeitung, 15.5.18
    3. Hello everyone, I haven't posted in this section before, if this is the wrong place please let me know. My question: is it possible to identify the brand of Field Marshal Manstein's watch in the picture below? He is meeting with Turkish generals in 1943. Regards Chris
    4. Very interesting! The ribbon bar in the second/third photo is the one shown here by Heiko as #2. It is the earliest of the three.
    5. I guess this has been discussed before, but still: Did Göring really wear two Luftwaffe long service crosses instead of two medals? Is there any photo that shows him wearing this medal bar? It would belong in our "Mistakes in Wear" thread. (Certainly, crosses look much fancier.)
    6. Daniel, I am sorry but I have to say this: we cannot go on for another 10 or 15 years. We have put a lot of effort into this, and there is so much new information we have found, it has to go out and should not be withheld from the public. We now find only very few new cases per year, rather like 5-10, at maximum. That would take us another 5-10 years, at least. And we don't even know if that total number you mention is anywhere near correct. Again, sorry, but someone has to bring this up. Chris
    7. Dr. Friedrich Speich died in 1933: Ferdinand Leonhardi died as OTL aD in 1937: Mindener Zeitung, 14.4.1937
    8. Höver was from Detmold, but I couldn't find his first name. Lippische Landes-Zeitung, 26.7.18 This might be a new one: Wilhelm Krehmke from IR 131, died in 1923. He is in VL as Lt, from Spandau. Lippische Landes-Zeitung, 17.4.23
    9. We had Hptm Willi Halbach here already. The other Halbach was Lt dR Hermann Halbach from Lage, KIA shortly before the armistice: Lippische Landes-Zeitung, 25.10.1918
    10. We had him already, but some new info: Werner Calov, born 28.03.1880, was from Pioniere. (Hemersche Zeitung, 26.4.1917) He made Polizei-Oberst around 1930: http://recherche.landesarchiv.sachsen-anhalt.de/Query/detail.aspx?ID=93459
    11. Eversbusch is Fritz, from Haspe Hasper Zeitung, 23.11.1917 The LtdR Flach who got the HHOX in October is Edwin Flach from Haspe, as I understand he was from RIR 202. Hasper Zeitung, 5.10.1918
    12. Mejo again confirmed with HHOX: Essener Allgemeine Zeitung, 8.7.1927 Fehrenberg is Leo, from Essen: Essener Allgemeine Zeitung, 6.7.1918
    13. This will probably be the most promising focus for the last meters of our project to find missing HHOX awardees: career officers who got the HHOX in October or November 1918, not listed in Staatsanzeiger or MWB, and probably, at least in a number of cases, not even mentioned in newspapers, for various reasons. Some newspapers just stopped reporting awards, for example. And we have to be clear: the list will never be fully complete, some just will not be found. The project has to be finalized at some point, though. Westerberg is Fritz, from Essen. General-Anzeiger für Essen und Umgegend, 22.8.1918 "Krägelow" is Franz Krägeloh from Essen. General-Anzeiger für Essen und Umgegend, 21.9.1918
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