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LS medal? What does that mean?

Are there more of bis files?

Hmm .... Could be him, but I am not 100% sure.

Is the guys name known?

It existed at the least two times. One Person ist Major Volckheim and the unknown Feldwebel in my humble opinion should be Oberschirrmeister Fischer.

It is a Poplavko-Jeffery. Has seen action on 12th January 1919 only. Then suppurting Regiment Reinhard in the "Zeitungsviertel" (Gazette Quarter).

Anders in Bayern: Bayer ist/wird man durch Heirat, durch Einbürgerung oder durch Geburt. Ergo: wer in Bayern geboren wurde, war Bayer.

I have a similar Silesian Eagle. But mine is not a sellers mark. Mine is written "ECHTE AUFLAGE" (real plating).

The Bavarian MVK 2nd class with crown and swords seems OK to me. Could be manufactured in the 1930s by Godet. But to be 100% sure, we should se the back. No clue about the Baden medal.

Can you remember where you found it? Any name for the tanker?

Number 1 - unknown, but in WW1 definetly an NCO

Number 2+3+5 = Volckheim

Number 4 ist interesting - unknown former WW1 tanker, but .... an evidence that Volckheim was NOT the only WW1 tanker who also was awarded with the tank assault badge of WW2. Is this picture part of your own collection or "just" from the net?

Hessisch? Das bedeutet mildernde Umstände. ;o))

Three tankers .................

Left one is Major Volckheim, second could be Weißmann and right could be Müller (but not 100% sure).

First .................

Well ... in my opinion there are differences .... what do you think?

Gods own dialect: Boarisch !!

Well ... Sepp Dietrich wore two different types.

The "1st type" was a totaly unusual one. By unusual I mean that this badge was more like the one on the original award documents. It seems that he was the only one who wore such a type. Due to that fact my conculsion is: must have been made only for him. Maybe a silver one, made by a jeweler. Anyway ... not part of the dicussion.

The "2nd type" is the one shown here in this thread. It seems that he wore this one from the mid or late 1930's on. On all pictures I have seen hiim wearing this one, my conclusion is: it must be a hollow one.

The same conclusion I do have on the badge worn by Theodor Larsen and by Hans Steinhardt. For other "tankers" I can not make any statement.

Well .... the "Dietrich Original" ..... I wouldn't trust it!

Until today I have never ever seen a picture of an original Kampfwagen-Abzeichen with eye socket worked-out. And I am talking about pictures taken in the era BEFORE 1945 ! And I have seen a lot of them in the last 25 years.

It seems to me that worked-out eye socketes are an American speciality to these kind of copies.

Beware: I am NOT talking about (original) hollow awards! Because with a hollow award we would have: front: eye sockets worked out, but back: plate NOT worked out.

Please take my apologies for my bad English!

Could be Spain. Maybe Falange ..?

This bar?

1st: König Ludwig Kreuz

2nd: Erinnerungsmünze an die Goldene Hochzeit (non official)

3rd: Denkmünze des Weltkrieges (non official)

4th: Kriegserinnerungszeichen des Bayerischen Landesverbandes vom Roten Kreuz (non official)

And there are more!

Nearly 30 years of collecting left one's mark. ;o))

Just realized that there is a Bavarian Bar thread too ....

... and a 1870 and earlier ....

I'll try too catch up

4th: Bavarian Firefighter & Paramedic

5th: Bavarian Public officer (Medal of the Order of St. Michael is missing)

6th: Bavarian Paramedic

7th: Bavarian Civilian or maybe Paramedic

Here are some of mine ....

1st: Bavarian Policeman

2nd: Bavarian Non-Combatant

3rd: Bavarian Civilian

Yes indeed! Thats why I like this Medal Bar.

It tells a life story. To young for WW1, but old enough for service in the Freikorps. Then he joined the Police and as a Policeman he seems to be that he was on duty during the Olympic games in 1936 in Berlin. In the late 1930ies a lot of police units were transfered to the Wehrmacht. So then he became a member of ther Army.

The Ribbon Bar shows a lot of Freikorps awards.

Well ... here are mine ...