Ulsterman

Any time-and perhaps I shall have some more tabs for you shortly.

Knocked out tanks (etc.) in August, 1945-the Potsdam bridge and vicinity:

apologies to the great 80s songwriter for the title of this thread. I got this at a flea market yesterday for 50 cents. It's the remains of a CDV that somehow has adhered to glass-and it has been broken. What do you think he was? Russian foot slogger @ 1860-or perhaps some sort of @ mid 1860-1870s German or even Serb? Any thoughts?

well, I looked in my Span Am medal roll, my Phillipene Medal roll, My Phillipene Congressional medal roll and even my Mexican Border service roll just for good measure-but no luck. But the Rough Riders are well documented and TR's book is great. RR is a genealogy wizard...I'll bet he could find even more arcane historical factoids-somewhere...the truth is out there...somewhere.

wow!!! Now THAT is a gift!! Frank was a trumpeter-originally in company A: maybe even part Cherokee I'd reckon-he was from the "Indian Territory" (Oklahoma) at time of his enlistment.

Nice- Why the different ribbons- recipients' citizenship?

Note: there is an actual MAP(!) that accompanies where these were earned. There is an on-going discussion as to whether units stationed in some rear areas-like Moldavia, western Finland (4th panzer Div I think) and basically anywhere west of the Baltic Republics got these. One of my "I'll research that one day" topics to compare the map reference with awards in Soldbuchs/Wehrpasses. The main thing is that it was (very) possible to be in the USSR and Finland at that time and not have qualified for the medal. Other things noted however are that Hiwis and NSKK/RAD/NSDAP officials etc. all got this medal-if they were in the right place.

wow-nice one Ed. I just saw this. I am jealous.

Well- I think we'd all like to see it, but I urge you to consider publishing the translation separately in the JOMSA as an article.

...and quite a bar it it! I wish it were mine. I wondered about the Munkasor thing-as I googled "munkasor" last month and found a whole series of snapshots of Munkasor officers saluting while the choir in the background gave the raised fist salute. They all had the Labour medal and what I thought were LS medals-and now CD's post confirms it. One of the present day Ministers apparently was a Munkasor officer.

here is one-actually he may be police. Ed can tell us his awards.

Sure! I'd love it. My Spanish is very basic. You could publish it as an article too!

What sort of person wore that bar? A military officer? I am surprised at the Labor Order at the front (is that a 1984 version?)... as I supposed that it was for civilians only.

neat-now did he have an HK or and HKx?

Dead on. My local historical society has five WW2 uniforms in it-all from known locals. One has the WW1 occupation ribbon on the rack-although the guy who wore it was only 23 in 1945. He served in the Germany 1944-49 and came back to run a local garage.

Is there by any chance- a name on the back of the legion of merit? These were quite freely awarded in 1945-47 by the US to allies.

You might well be able to find out more about this man. These units were small and many of the lads knew each other well. heck-Prosper Keating might have met him. Try the South Atlantic Medal Assn. web site.

Great photo and great information-of course.

Reporters also rated a South Atlantic medal. Max Hastings got one-he mentions it's his only gong out of 20 wars or so.

any chance to id this chap-note rank...?

Ahem Humberto? Perhaps we could bribe you with German baubles? Promises of fame and glory/

Muchos Gracias!! Perchance could some kind person translate this for the JOMSA???

see here: http://www.omsa.org/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=714

...and here is a 50 year gong from the Grand Lodge in Massachusetts- (a legacy of the British troops occupation of 1774 no less). This recipient joined in the AEF and took his first degree in a military Lodge in France.