Leutwein

A wonderful pic! Congrat Heiko!

BUT the first one should be the MEZ I and not the prussian "goldene MVK"!

By the way, the person is a police sergeant of the LP (Landespolizei) in GSWA.

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Leutwein

the bar

and here is the picture of Oberst Gronau.

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Leutwein

Hello Sascha,

the last one, with the nice colonial medal bar is Schulze- Dewitz

He received:

EK, MEZ I, MEZ II, Schaumburg-Lippe Kreuz f?r treue Dienste, DA I, DA II, the colonial medal bar with two battle clasp KAMERUN 1908/09 and KAMERUN 1912 and the last medal is the African General Service Medal with claps West Africa 1908.

Congratulation to this very nice and rare pic.

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Leutwein

A pic of him with all his decorations was sold in ebay last month!

Link:

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewIt...em=270202483800

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Leutwein

Hello,

I have a doc of a nurse who received the Hindenburg-cross with swords! She also get the red cross medal 2nd and 3rd class (WW1). She served in a german colony. Unfortunately it is unknown in which german colony.

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leutwein

Unfortunately there is no entry in which colony she served. But the docs were issue by the "Kommando der Schutztruppen im Reichsministerium". There are two docs for the red cross medals (2nd and 3rd class) and for the FEK.

But I?m thinking that she served in German-Eastafrica or may be in Cameroon.

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Leutwein

Hello,

I have some docs of a nurse who served in the colonies! She got later (1934) the "Ehrenkreuz f?r Frontk?mpfer". How is that possible???

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Leutwein

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some close up of the second picture.

and for first the last one.

a nice bar with the Medjidie medal.

More stolen medal bars.

1. a small baden bar

Nice and rare picture Medalnet. Congratulations.

But those 3 black soldiers are members of the policetroop of Togo and the picture was taken around 1914.

The left policeman is a "Unteroffizier"

The right policeman is a "Gefreiter"

The decorated policeman could be a "Vize-Feldwebel" or a "Feldwebel". unfortunately we can not identify the insignias.

A lovely picture.

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Leutwein

Hello Chris Boonzaier,

some more news.

Heinrich Teske left Hamburg on the 30th March 1904. Probably Heinrich Teske reached Swakopmund with the steamer "Entre Rios"! "Hauptmann" Stahl was the "commander" of that steamer (the steamer transported a battery (8 officers and 125 NCO?s and privates) and 650 horses) and he was later in Southwest the commander of the 5th battery. On the 21st April 1904 the steamer "Entre Rios" reached Swakopmund. The 5th battery had to finish their instruction until June in Otjosasu. After the instruction some members took part on patrols under the command of Oberleutnant von Salzmann, who was an officer of the 5th battery. The patrols of the 5th battery and other units amounted to that the Hereros were stationary in the area of Okahitua (in the near of Hamakari). I think for one of these patrols in June or July 1904 Heinrich Teske received his award. Many of these patrols had ended in patrol-battles (Patrouillengefechte).

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Leutwein

P.S. I hope you can understand my reply

Hello Chris,

unfortunately I couldn?t find any wounded Person with the name Heinrich Teske.

Perhaps he was too old for doing his service in the WW1! Perhaps he was a settler or an old veteran (Feldwebel) during the Herero-War and finally to old for the WW1.

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Leutwein

Hello Chris,

yes I have the "list"! I need only his name, then I can search if he was wounded in Southwestafrica.

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Leutwein

Here a nice example of Bernd D theory.

A seaman of the SMS Hertha with 4!!! battle clasp. The 3 battle clasp are Taku Tientsin and Seymour-Expedition and the last one, can only be Peking.

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Leutwein

Hello Chris Boonzaier,

in the name list of recipients of the Iron Cross 2nd class were the earliest awarded on the 01.12.1914

Some of them who get the Iron Cross 2nd class on this day were Bezirksamtmann Dr.vet Wilhelm von Vietsch or Stabsarzt Dr. med. Felix Meyer.

A lot of Southwest-veterans get their award on the 28.04.1918. On the name list of recipients of the Iron Cross 2nd class Oblt. von Hadeln get his award on the 28.04.1918 too.

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Leutwein

Hi,

how many EK1 recipients are listed?

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Chris

Only 15 but the list isn?t complete. 3 of them were wounded too and get the wounded badge.

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Leutwein

Hello Chris Boonzaier,

are you sure that the reserve officer was called STORCK and not STARCK??? I couldn?t find a person with the name STORCK ! But I find a Lieutenant of the reserve STARCK !

By the way, here is a Link to a list of officers who surrenderd after the end of the war in Southwest or died in that campaign! I hope the link works.

http://www.traditionsverband.de/download/pdf/off_ueliste.pdf

There you can find STARCK under the number 058 of the reserve officers

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Leutwein

Fantastic and rare Group

Congratulation.

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Leutwein

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=10820

Here is a link to the docs.

If be became a pilot in germany in December 1912, I assume he arrived in GSWA in 1913 or 14? Does that mean it unlikely he got the Denkm?nze?

Hello,

no he didn?t get the "Colonial-Medal" (Kolonialdenkm?nze). He didn?t take part at any "coloinal-wars" in Southwest.

By the way, in the book "For Valour" of Gordon McGregor, Oberleutnant von Hadeln isn?t present on the name list of recipients of the Iron Cross 1st class!!! But he is present on the name list of recipients of the Iron Cross 2nd class.

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Leutwein

Congratulations to the nice documents!

I?m still looking for an colonial EK II or EK I document.

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Leutwein

Hello Chris Boonzaier,

what was the name of the reseve officer ?

I think I can help you.

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Leutwein