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    Glenn J

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    1. Dear ArHo, Please find below a scan from the 1932 edition of the Bekleidungsvorschrift für die Polizei und Landjägerei in Preußen. As can be seen all wartime awards including wound badges and flight badges were explicitly permitted to be worn on duty as were life-saving and long service awards. Peacetime awards were allowed off-duty. Regards Glenn
    2. Hello, the award was not published in the Militär-Wochenblatt but on checking the Ordensliste of 1877, one finds that a Generalleutnant von Alvensleben (then residing in Potsdam) was awarded the RAO1E on 8 May 1869; the same day that Werner retired. So, it seems the answer is yes. Regards Glenn
    3. Chris, that confirms Malsen. The bemedalled chap to his left is Friedrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Major à la suite der Armee with the uniform of 1. Schweres-Reiter-Regiment. He was the Crown Prince's Hofmarschall. (Hence all the bling)! Regards Glenn
    4. Hi Nicolas, that is Reichsheer Oberstleutnant Bruno Neumann, commander of 8. (Preußisches) Reiter-Regiment (1930-1933). Regards Glenn
    5. Hi Chris, he is pictured as a General Staff officer; note the trouser Lampassen. He was originally an infantry officer - Infanterie-Leib-Regiment. Regards Glenn
    6. Thanks Andreas, here is his biography from the Offizier-Stammliste of the Kaiser Franz Garde-Grenadier-Regiment. Regards Glenn
    7. Hi Laurentius, Dr. Ahles does not appear to have reached the equivalent of general officer rank. It is possible that the engraving was a much later rendition of Dr. Eichheimer. He was still serving in 1842 with exactly the same decorations as shown in your portrait. He served as the General-Stabsarzt of the Bavarian Army from 1826 to 1847. I can't find anyone else with those exact decorations at this rank. He was only awarded a Military Merit order 3rd Class on 1 January 1843 Regards Glenn
    8. I found this picture dated 1833 of Friedrich Eichheimer. The likeness is not immediately apparent. In 1832 only two serving medical officials are listed with a Militär-Sanitäts-Ehrenzeichen in Gold. The other is a Divison Stabsarzt Dr. Carl Ahles. He is shown with the same orders by 1836. Regards Glenn
    9. Hi chaps, I would go along with a very senior military medical official in the late twenties/early thirties. At this period, medical officials did not wear epaulettes. This chap may well be our man from 1831 and the collar braid corresponds with the rank. Regards Glenn
    10. Oberst Boeckh (18.11.37-4.11.1908) spent much of his career with the corps of cadets from early 1866 onwards. Although he returned to his regiment, the Kaiser Franz Garde-Grenadier-Regiment for the campaign in Bohemia in 1866 (fighting at Alt-Rognitz and Königgrätz), he remained at the cadet school in Wahlstatt during the Franco-German war. He served at Plön for numerous years, starting in 1873, becoming the commander there on 22 January 1880 as a Major. He left some ten years later as a charakterisierter Oberst on 18 October 1890 to become the director of the military orphanage in Potsdam. Retiring on 27 September 1893, he died in Berlin in 1908. Regards Glenn
    11. Morning, much earlier than that: Oberst Friedrich Boeckh commanding in Plön in the eighties. Regards Glenn
    12. Hi Chris, I would think the chap at front right with the suspended monocle. Regards Glenn
    13. Chip, Chris, discontinued in 1888. Most probably a Landwehr Jäger officer in the I. Armeekorps area. Regards Glenn
    14. I would certainly recommend Jürgen Kraus' " Die feldgraue Uniformierung des deutschen Heeres 1907-1918". It exhaustively covers all branches of the military administration in its 2nd volume. Regards Glenn
    15. Hi Andreas, that makes perfect sense. Ritter von Beckh commanded RW-Inf.Rgt 47 and that appears to be brigade commander of RW-Brigade 24, Oberst Jakob Ritter von Danner to his left. Regards Glenn
    16. Gentlemen, Generalmajor Günther von Bünau, commanding 81. Infanterie-Brigade in Lübeck around 1897/98 Regards Glenn
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