Only A WW1 Veteran 01

This is the most common form of "award padding" we find-- because the WW1 Commemorative Medals of the other Central Powers (here Austria's, Hungary's, and Bulgaria's following the Hindenburg Cross) were freely available to German veterans simply by applying for them, these "real" awards were often used by people who had never been further east than Berlin to

ahem


expand their groups to look more ferociously martial.

So... NO long service awards of any kind means this fellow was not a "career" anything... right?


Courtesy of Robert Noss.