belgoman

hallo gents, the only official wound red cross is the one shown by Tim B. Yet some holders found that it did not show enough that they were wounded and decided to put larger red crosses on the ribbon. As there are no "service bars" on the ribbon shown by Lambert, one can asume that the soldier got wounded in the very early days of the war and never got back to the front. A single small cross on the ribbon would probably have been consider not glorious enough by the owner of the medal and so, it is just a guess, could have brought him to put a large red cross on the ribbon... regards

hallo blueman, the first épaulette is the épaulette for Belgian officers worn on the n° 1 uniform, as said in the army regulations of 15/10/1928. The blue lines indicate that it was an infantry officer. The monogram stands for ALBERT 1ER king of the Belgians. hope this helps, yours belgoman

Gents, these soldiers are indeed Belgian grenadiers. The picture shows the "garde au drapeau" = honor guard for the regimental flag. The flagholder is a lieutenant (2 gilded stars worn on the collar before the grenadierss grenade) and his guards are NCO's (wearing sharpshooter's badges on the left sleeve) The grenadiers are considered to be an elite regiment. The photograph is probably to date from before the 1st WW, and taken during one of the numerous manoeuvres the army did...that is why they have a "non military" background... Up to 1914 they had 2 regiments : the 1er régiment de grenadiers and the 2nd regiment. As Ulsterman says, they payed a large tribute during the first monthes of the war and in 1914 the were reduced to one regiment with 4 bataljons. Only in 1916 they could again split into 2 regiments. Their badge is a flaming grenade : a large cupper one on the bearskin and smaller ones on the collar, also on the parade belt plaque. Hope this could help a bit, best regards, JP

hello friends, nice open thinking. Here then the full address : http://www.marinebelge.be/photos_nautilus/fiches_amiraux/amiral2dpoullet.gif hopes it will help you to visite the site. For as far as his short biography mentions, mr Poullet had no connections with Peru... but who knows... One thing puzzels me, that is that ribbon nr 7 seems to be a plain blue ribbon, ... and the rosette shows a central red stripe (might even be 2 lateral thin red lines brought together in the center). Normally a rosette shows the same pattern (reduced) as the ribbon no?

hello Michael, for as far that I known the yellow stripes are larger on the ribbon of the French Merite Sportif. Note that the picture posted by Ringo is paler than the real colours. Just check the real colours in the link http://www.marinebelge.be/photos_nautilus/fiches_amiraux/amiral2dpoullet.gif, were you can find a picture of the viscount vice-amiral Edmond Poullet. You can note that the blue is really darker... Also as he was aide-de-camp of King Albert II, we may assume thant he had, as noble and as high ranking responsible in the European armed forces and as aide-de-camp contacts with the king's family in Luxemburg... but it is just a guess. Best regards, JP

Hello, for me nr 6 is officier of the Luxemburg Order of Adolph of Nassau. No idea for nr 7, sorry. best regards

Hello gents, this is a Belgian schoulder badge worn from 1950 till 1971, it is for the RASC from 1950-1951 and for the Transport Regiments from 1951 till 1971. After that period the regiments became Logistics (Logistique) and had other badges. The badges come in pair with the wings facing left and facing right. Yhey exist in brass/cupper for the soldiers, silvered for the NCO's and gilted for the officiers. The shown badge is for the soldeirs in bright brass colour version. Hope this could help^; friendly yours

Hello dear friends, interesting posts that ask for more 1° The bar CORÉE-KOREA is normally the one fitting the Arrêté Royal from 26 09 1951. But other versions exist as : COREE COREA (Corea with a C), KOREA CORÉE (with Dutch language first) or simply COREE. They also exist with different sizes, texts can be in highlight or engraved, aso.....just according the ideas of the makers. 2° The signature is J. DEMART 51 and not DEMARET (without second E) but a model without engravers name also exists. The 1st medal shown (MED COMMEMORATIVE DES OPERATIONS EXTERIEURES) can also have following 3 bars according to the theatre of action : IMJIN / HAKTANG-NI / CHATKOL. 3° the Belgian made medal came because it was cheaper than the official French language one and the maker DEGREEF in Brussel saw a financial opportunity to shortcut the official ones.... Also because most of the Belgian medals are worn on a ring (nor on a bar) and the wearers found it more elegant to hold to a more Belgian conventional way of medals... 3° Of course, the War Volunteer medal can be found with the brass colour bar COREE KOREA in the different varieties. 4° the same medal but named VOLONTAIRE COMBATTANT (fighting volunteer) wears the same bar but SILVERED. 5° Hendrik is right about the Art.4 Military Medal, yet some veterans told me that they put the COREE KOREA bar on the ribbon to make THE difference with the other wearers of this medal... 6° The national orders (LEOPOLD, COURONNE, LEOPOLD II) can wear crossed swords with a bar COREE KOREA if the veteran deserves it. These swords with bar can be found in brass, silvered and gilded...and with different bar varieties... So, hope this can help you in your collection. friendly regards ;)