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Thanks for looking him up! I know it was a long shot, trying to find something about the guy.

Thanks for the input so far!! The return address on the reverse of the box is the "Director of Navy Accounts, Branch 3B D Block Foxhill Hutments, Bath, Sommerset". Could this point to Coast Guard Service? I would be glad, if somebody with an ancestry.uk access could maybe look him up?

I have this small Defence Medal Set and would like to know, if it´s possible to determine the occupation (e.g. fire brigade, Home Guard ...) for which the recipient received his Defence Medal? The medal was awarded to an Mr W. T. Jeffree from Kilivose Camborne in Cornwall. By Google I was able to find a William Thomas Jeffree Born in 1909 from Camborne, but I don´t know if that´s my recipient?!

In the 2nd one under Strafen they have something new for the 27.1.18 and 21.3 18... Did they then cancel it all?

Yes, he was pardoned by a decree of the emperor (given on the emperor´s birthday), which was confirmed by the court on the 21.03.1918. Most probably many soldiers punished for minor infractions were pardoned on this occasion!?

I don´t know, if they received the new version for free or if they had to buy the medal.

In 1910 he would´ve been awarded the brooch version, the medal version of the 2nd class was only introduced in july 1913. 

I think it´s time to get some prussians into the game!

Landwehr Dienstauszeichnung I. Klasse

Landwehr Dienstauszeichnung II. Klasse

The Landwehr Dienstauszeichnung 2. Klasse was awarded after 12 years of Service: 2 years of active service and 10 years of service in the reserve, when at least 3 months of reserve exercises were accumulated. 

I have a very similar decoration and I think, they´re so small, because the LD2 medal was quite small, with a larger mounting, it would´ve even looked smaller?!

@Chris Boonzaier

Very nice document grouping, I really like these Ehrenkreuz documents from abroad! Do you know more about Mr. Jessen?

I think his medals are: EK2/HKx/ Austrian WWI medal w/swords and Hungarian WWI medal.

Nice early Bundeswehr pics! Are there some Bundeswehr Wehrpässe, too?

Impressive EK2 citation with  a very interesting Militärpaß, thanks for showing!!

Nice little medal bar! His long service award must´ve been the pre 1913 brooch version?

Nice document! Do you have more stuff from the recipient?

First time I see a WWI Wound Badge document listing the dates & places of the wounds, very nice!

Very interesting medalbar, I´ve never seen a mounted Mine Rescue Medal before! The owner had an interesting career for sure as a WWI senior NCO and then in the Mine Rescue Service.

WWI veterans, who never got their Verwundetenabzeichen could, from 30. January 1936 onwards, get a certificate to obtain a badge. From this date on it was not only awarded according to the number of wounds, but the severity was also taken into consideration, so your great grandfather would´ve qualified for the silver grade!   

Here´s  his wedding picture:

(Source: derwesten.de)

Ludwig Erhard, chancellor from 1963-1966, served 1916-1918 with an artillery unit on the western front, was severely wounded and promoted to Unteroffizier. He received the Bayrisches Militärverdienstkreuz III. Klasse mit Schwertern

Very nice group, a lot of medals for an enlisted man!!

Yes, here´s a list of the two time MOH recipients:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Two-time_Medal_of_Honor_recipients

http://www.homeofheroes.com/moh/history/history_double.html

In can contribute these two bars, one from Hessen, the other from Hamburg:

Very interesting, thanks for showing!

@‌JensF.

It´s a really nice mini bar, especially with the japanese medal, add a little bit of "exotic" flavour!

Nice little bar with a great background story!