Chris Boonzaier

And what is to follow... will follow... and really have a WOW effect.....

I think 190 men can be called "rare" :-)

Hi, a long history indeed! Was this worn just in the Freikorps period?

I wonder what happed to the family when old Hitler came to power??

Ludendorff does not really capture the imagination of the present collecting generation, but he covered many bases.... personal bravery at the beginning of the war... and then the absolute warlord, a 14-18 darth vader.... if he had just had the X-Factor to make him a popular figure in collecting circles...

I think this is the crux.... WHAT do you collect? I collect WW1, so I want untainted WW1 bars.... But I also to certain Regiments and I would LOOOOVE to have a bar with THOSE regiments on... or commemorative medals to battles that really interest me... AND I have groups to specific people and there I want ALL their stuff to follow their career, (Except maybe the Treuedienst-Ehrenzeichen) So, although my real interest is PURE WW1, I can be swayed depending on who its to and what the add ons are...

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Print signed by him....

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Here is a little gem... or a large one... depends how you look at it,,,, A print of Ludendorff in the action where he made his name... the taking of Lüttich.... It is a very detailed print, technically and uniform details fantastic....

flying colours ;-)

Hi, I think a fraction of the KVKs were for something like that ;-)

Does anyone have Bernd von Arnim?

This is a fantastic thread guys! I promise to see if I have any to add when I get home!

Indeed! Some of them are listed there, but there must be many more in the full files..

I dont know how many names there would be on total, but that would be a damned fine medal roll!!

Sorry, just adding as I scan through... last item on page 59, Prussian officers attached to french expeditions in Algeria, Mexico, Japan etc. etc sounds interesting

Page 25

Page 12, like 45 has lots of names as well

Page 9 has all the documents of Chinese awards to Prussians

Page 45 has quite a bit of detail, but if you put "orden" in the search part there is a bit more to dig out....

Hi, At this archive they have something on Chinese, japanese and Siam awards to Germans... maybe it helps? http://www.gsta.spk-berlin.de/uploads/inventare/pdc.pdf

A great example Dave! You can not imagine how happy I am that this guy had not mounted it... it was loose in the group... http://www.kaiserscross.com/167501/335722.html I have them in a frame with the back of the loose one facing out...

Hi, My thought ... if this was a photo of a man... would anyone even ask what it was? I really dont think that there were just 4 Women who got the EK. I cannot find the source that makes that claim, or if the original author said "there were 4 women" or "these 4 woman are known to have the EK..." We are talking an army of millions with a few hundred generals who interprated the rules as they understood them to be... a Divisional commander in the Balkans, in the East, etc. could have quite easily awarded the EK at a field hospital... and the only written record would/could have been in the documents of that field hospital. it is possible that a few hundred women recieved the EK. Maybe the new German book on the EK coming out next year will have something on this. Apparently he used a lot of archival research. Best Chris

Its not that hard... regimental baggage overrun, assumed all is lost, but the guy had it in his backpack.... I even have a group where a MAN was reported lost and killed, memorial service by his family, etc. etc... and was announced as a POW a month later... with tens of millions of people involved and millions or personal dramas... there is plenty of opportunity for something to be reported lost, but then found again. A personal example... when I was in the army we left Central africa in emergeny to go to zaire... the guys on base had to pack the material we left behind. Stuff was thrown away or went missing... through no fault of our own... all had to be replaced...