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Cheers Karsten, can you post a picture of the Colonial FAM ?

No I would sew them......I have a seamstress who would do it

Hi Karsten, here we are......both I would treat as copys?

Thanks Dave......is it a worthy project given the sum of the missing items?

I have his sons wehrpass.....

Recent pick up.....grateful for some thoughts as to what should be on the bar (I figure all the medals are wrong).......and if its worth restoration

Great stuff, this is just what I wanted.......Navy it is, many thanks guys, regards, Paul

He has seen them before......like to tease him with them at least one a year!!!

New bar.....would interested in your views as to who might have got these awards and theatre served, my guess is some where both the Turks and Austrian served given the awards.......many thanks, Paul

Nice skull Robin.....not to be confused with the Czech legion varient.............

Chris, nice document......goes with this.......

Here we are........

Cheers Chris

Here are the documents

Very nice post cards, here are mine.......

According to my records E J Davidson served in the Canadian Scouts as a trooper

"The 73-year-old Karlfried Schneider can still remember well, although now more than half a century has passed: Das Schönste war, wo mir nach Dien Bien Phu hereinkamen, erst Mal die Bunker bauen. The best thing was, where I came in to Dien Bien Phu, the first time to build bunkers. Da hat man sich ja weiter gar nichts Schlechtes dabei gedacht. Since it has indeed further thought nothing wrong with it. Und wir haben Bunker gebaut und haben gut gegessen, haben unseren Spaß gehabt, und dann kam am 13.3.1954 so gegen Abend, fünf Uhr, strenges Ausgangsverbot. And we have built bunkers and ate well, have had our fun, and then came on 13.3.1954 so against evening, five clock, strict curfew. Und da ahnte ich schon nichts Gutes.And since I already knew nothing good. Und dann ging's auch schon los: Peng, peng, peng, peng...And then it was also going on already: Bang, bang, bang, bang ... - und dann haben wir durchgehalten, bis die Nacht um zwei, drei... - And then we have persevered until the night to two, three ... Und da war unser Posten gefallen! And because our items had fallen! Und das war der erste Posten, der von Dien Bien Phu überhaupt verloren ging. And that was the first item that was of Dien Bien Phu in general lost. Karlfried Schneider - ehemaliger Soldat in der französischen Fremdenlegion - ist wieder einmal zum monatlichen Veteranen-Treff gekommen, zur so genannten "Amicale", in einer Gaststätte in Frechen bei Köln. Karlfried Schneider - a former soldier in the French Foreign Legion - has come once again for the monthly meeting veterans, the so-called "Amicale", in a restaurant in Frechen near Cologne. Er gehört schon zu den Ältesten der knapp zwei Dutzend Ex-Legionäre - und: er ist inzwischen der einzige von ihnen, der noch in Dien Bien Phu selbst dabei war. He heard the elders of almost two dozen former Legionaries - and: he is now the only one of them who was not even there at Dien Bien Phu".

Bernhard, thanks for your comments, here is a small article on Karlfried Schneider http://www.dradio.de...politik/263311/

Had this document for over 20 years, I did get in touch with the Legion old comrades and he was still alive then having left the Legion and worked for Krupp, Welcome your thoughts

Dedehansen, many thanks......any photos?

I have recently obtained the documents of Kapitanleutnant Franz Weidgen, who took part in "Operation Albion" 1917, wondered if anyone had any career details or photos of him, will post the documents as soon as possible, thanks, Paul

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