ErikMuller

I think it is! Here's a picture of him from the book "Zeegaande Vloot" (1963).

Welcome Megan! Glad to see you here to! Looks like most of the old Orders, Awards and Decorations Collecting Forum are over to this forum now

I was just kidding

I checked the book "De Schakel" in which is the famous picture of Leegstra, Beelaerts van Blokland, Boomsma, Lindeman, Vos and Steen after their daring escape to England. This could indeed be Leegstra, although the picture must have been taken some 10 years later. Strange that he switched from the Army to the Navy. He was appointed Head of the Aviation Department of the Netherlands Purchasing Commission in America in 1943 and - as far as I could find - he stayed there till late 1945. The connection with Belgium and the Indies (Star for Order and Peace), is lost to me. After the war he worked with the K.L.M. and retired on 1 January, 1975.

Leegstra was awarded the Legionnaire Class of the Legion of Merit in 1945. He was an Army-flyer by the way and I can't find him on any list for the Belgian Croix-de-Guerre! And I guess the first ribbon on the second row is either a Belgian Leopolds Order of Order of the Crown with palm. @ Herr General: could you please e-mail me a 300 dpi version of this picture? I have an update lying for my article on Dutchman, decorated with the Belgian Croix-de-Guerre and I would really love to use this picture!

Not entirely true: if you wear foreign decorations in the Netherlands you wear them from high to low, and only if two medals of the same class are in a row you wear them in alphabetically according to the French name of the countries. So if someone has an officer, let's say of the Order of the Sword of Sweden, a Knight in the Order of the Crown of Belgium and a Knight in the Order of Merit of Germany, he would wear them: Officer Sword Sweden (S?ede), Knight Merit Germany (Allemange) and Knight Crown Belgium (Belgique).

Are there miniatures on this picture? Hmmm... Sorry I must be blinded by the flash

I've already asked this in the South East Asia section, but does anyone knowns which awards Queen Sirikit of Thailand has?

Does anyone has a list of honours for Queen Sirikit of Thailand? She was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the Netherlands Lion in 1960 and the Netherlands Medal of the Red Cross in 1963, but I'm looking for her other awards. Thanks on beforehand! Ch., Erik

Chris, Was Cloete a Dutchman? Ermelo is in the Netherlands, but he is not amongst the list of Dutchmen who received the Anglo-Boere Oorlogsmedalje in 1938. Cheers, Erik

Welcome to the forum Wilco!

Yes he did, he held the Cross of Merit 1st class. He also had a list of semi-official and unofficial medals I don't mention on my site. I will post you the article Henny Meijer wrote on him in the weekend. This article gives a full list of all 60 honours he received

Unknown/LM = Dutch/Army Medal Unknown/HLO.2 = Dutch/Badge of the National Union for Harmonic Physical Education 2nd grade Unknown/KBVW = Dutch/Cross of Merit of the Union of Brothers-in-Arms Unknown/PKZ.2 = Poland/Polish Cross of Merit in silver

I would love to have a look in your library Keep the good work going Rick!

I thought Mediteranean because of the Turkish Red Crescent Society Medal, I know the Maltese Cross of Merit was also awarded for medical relief in Russia and France during WW1, but, if I'm correct, the TRCS Medal was only awarded to those aiding the TRCS at their own fronts.

Wow what a lovely bar! If both bars belonged together, my best guess would be that the guy was a civilian doctor who served on the Mediterranean during WW1. Ch., Erik

Indeed! Lovely piece!

To give another answer to Rick's question: Duitsche Ministerie van Marine means German Ministry of the Navy. So I guess the different branches of the German government of 1920 awarded their own Iron Crosses.

It is most certainly not the GC-star of the Order of the Sword, but what it is... no idea! On Picture 1 the officer is wearing a 3rd class of the Order of the Lion and the Sun, not a 4th class. The number of the arms of the star are linked to the grade: 8 = 1st grade, 7 = 2nd grade, 6 = 3rd grade, 5 = 4th grade and 4 = 5th grade. This one has 6 arms! Unfortunately I've got quite a library (and I have to move it in a couple of weeks )

Will see what I can do. I have to go there to make pictures for my book on de Red Cross Medal anyways, so maybe George Sanders let me take some pictures of other medals to

Froger: Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau with swords Officer's Long Service Cross Mobilisation Commemorative Cross 1914-1918 Knight of the Order of the Sword of Sweden Hoogenhuyze Military William's Order, Knight 4th class Expedition Cross with three clasps Large Gold Proficiency Medal of the Netherlands Olympic Committee with golden crown Officer's Long Service Cross Mobilisation Commemorative Cross 1914-1918 Medal of Honour of the Hungarian Red Cross Decoration 2nd class of the Austrian Red Cross with War Decoration

He is listed as Kapitein-Adjudant of the 19th Infantry Regiment in 1923, so this could be possible!

Roel, Thanks! These were known! The Netherlands Red Cross had sent ambulances to: France / Germany in 1870-1871 The Boer War 1901-1902 The Balkan War 1912-1913 The Second Balkan War 1913 The Pestilence in the Indies 1914-1916 France/Germany/Hungary/Russia, etc. 1916-1918 Ethiopia 1935-1936 Finland 1940-1941 France 1940 Indies 1945-1950 Most of these ambulances were richely decorated!

My source: "Gedenkboek Grenadiers en Jagers 1929-1939"

Since the information on this picture was getting a bit 'stretched', I moved the picture and the ID's to some unused webspace.