Ulsterman

Ooooohhhhh. Nice-early and nice. What is the profession? Hey, you should do a follow up note on this one for the JOMSA!

Reluctantly I don't give out my home email. I am sorry. However, the Moderators will be more than happy to help you if you have scans already completed.

wow-nice uniform. There are USAF regular officer lists out there. Maybe jeff Floyd has one? Someone who was in as an enlisted guy in 1941 and served a long and tough career. That is a treasure.

so the Labour Banners are not strictly sequential?

was 820995 awarded in 1974?

Perhaps-a post 1935 bar "made older" by the sammlerariatclub? The EK2/BavMMcx/Hkx would be the correct precedence for post 1935 bars. If the medals are hooked on the back.......at least the ribbon bar and 1870 campaign medal might be originals.

GREAT INFORMATION!!!!!! Thanks.

Interesting-weren't the bars put out @ 1900? What order are the medals in? The Centennial medal must've been worn separate? I would really like to see that bar.

No idea-but look at the quality! Nice ones.

that's cloth? Looks painted. Nice photograph.

Well, the book quoted was from mid-1915, but there were certainly numbers of these handed out in 1920 etc. as "thanks for serving" awards. Da Rittmeister has had a series of documented awards recently of 1919/1920 "catch up" awards that are clearly civil merit or early Weimar (chaos) service of some sort. Still, medal bars for rear echelon types tend to survive more methinks-like the rarity of civil war enlisted (worn) uniforms.

Great pics!

wow- that changes the complexion of things-

hee-he-looks familiar. looks like one of those navy Feurwerks/deck officers bumped up upon demobilization in 1920 bars that Rick speaks of...

awesome!! A Stogiemedal! It should be on the cover of Cigar Afficienado" magazine.

Bravo!!!! A family mystery solved.

I would bet money that is a quasi-official league of Nations medal for the election oversight officers for the Saarland plebiscetes. Germany was ferociously chauvinistic about producing their own goods and services after 1933. The League on the other hand, were right next door to Huguenin and ordered some badges from the company. There is very little in print about the Leagues' actual on-the-ground activities.

If you want one, there are about a dozen 5 miles from me and they are cheap. Lots of Soviet ribbons too. Hans Biemlers' grandson is the Producer of 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine' as well as other Hollywood projects. He has had some walk ons in other SciFi stuff (notably the New and very good, 'Battlestar Gallactica".

Could this be the same source that had problems with the FBI a few years back?Perhaps, one "Well known to the East Coast collecting community"? on eBay? Perhaps whose name rhymes with "Snider" (the rifle).

Um...what is it? A campaign medal for Romanians who fought against the Germans?

By the way: here is a free download..... http://www.archive.org/details/historyoflumsden00pearrich

WOW!!!!!

Yup- that's it. Most useful for the "secret 1920s officers assigned to airforce training" etc. lists. Interestingly there is an obit. in 1930 on the NY Times listing that may be him. I refuse to pay the $5 so can't see the whole thing. He was young to have been aD.

I think so. However, I'd try the UK Napoleonic Society first. They have odd bits and pieces laying about.

Wachter was kdr.14/I.R.20 in 1926, aD in 1927 see Spires listing of discharged bavarian officers in Appendix 7.