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Marc! Welcome. i can not wait to see your book . I am aware of @ 15 Brunswick medals in the USA. I would LOVE to get hold of a copy of your book. At the 1815 group/Project Hougemont (see us on Facebook) there has been MUCH discussion of new letters/documents etc. that have been unearthed in the past few years. Is there any way I can obtain a copy of the medal roll? I would happily pay for it. I am looking for information on the following medals...all of which have been posted on the 1815 Project Hougemont on Facebook: Carl. Willecke, Av. Garde Friedr. Kirchhoff, Husr. Regt. Aug. Kuehnau. Comp. Chir. Leib. Regt. Theodore Salomon, Coronet, Uhl. Esq. (large ring on medal) Heinrich Uttermark, Equip. Train Andr. Jaeger. 3. Jaeger Btn. Carl. Loehr, R. Art. Ioh. Hornung. 1. Line. Bat. Heink. Konnecke. 2. Jaeger. Btn. Elias. Nisse. F. Art. Friedr. Grundman. 1. Jaeger Srgt. Heinr. Voigt. 3. Line. Btn. Peter probst. Hussar Regt. (with a paining of the recipient)-medal mounted on a barrette with a LS cross and a Henry the Lion merit Cross John Suessmilch. 2. Line Btn. (mounted with an 1814 Prussian campaign medal) Joh. Zack.

Hmmmmm...instructive that Steve jobs was not given one.

wow! Were you in the Benelux area?

Excellent! Can you share the information with us? Was he a Jaeger or a member of the Avant Grd Btn? Do you have a medal list for these at all? :0

By the way, @ 2 years ago I saw a photo album sold of a WW1 dog handler and his dogs. Included were a series of marching snaps of Weimer era parades of the "German Wardogs Veterans' Association". I wish I had bought it now.

The German Shepherd breed had it's beginnings in the mid to late 1800's depending on which source you check. The earliest club to record the lineage of the dogs that still exists today is The Verein fur Deutche Schaferhunde which was founded in 1899 after the demise of the Phylax Society in 1894. The Bunderssieger Zuchtschau has been held every year since 1899 with dogs entering from all around the world. If you click the link and have a look, you can see the great difference between the early German Shepherd dogs and the modern abominations with spinal deformities. It is truly heartbreaking to see. Thanks! This is a very interesting subject! I shall tell you a quick story then. In 1990-shortly after the wall came down, I was managing a series of Fleet Bank branches in New England. One day a chap walked in with a commercial loan application and asked for a loan of $15,000 with which he was going to rebuild a kennel, buy some more acreage and buy another German Shepherd-from the disbanding GDR kennels. I was a new banker at the time and it was my very first commercial loan request, I having just been licensed by the new England Bankers association a few days before so i was agog at his request. Most commercial loans are structured towards helping small shop keepers, accountants, fishing boats, small tree farms, smaller factories etc.. "Livestock" was not in the manual. So, somewhat bemused I sat smugly behind my 180 year old desk as this guy then proceeded to outline the most detailed and thoughtful business proposal I had ever seen in my 3 years of banking. I was agog. The 3 dogs he had brought back as stud dogs had already produced $20,000 in income from puppies! They were insured for $150,000! In 1990 that was VERY serious money. I only had loan authority of $25,000 and the total collateral on this loan was a bankers' dream. I did not believe his stated value of the dogs until he pulled out a Lloyd's ten year insurance binder (that's the gold standard of business insurance) for $150,000! He had perfect collateral. The puppies were going for @ 1-2,000 each as I recall. He brought in one of the dogs- @ 4 years old or so and it had a GDR doggie Militarpass. In it was included a pedigree that went back to 1775! I remember because it was the same year as the battle at Lexington. His dog was smaller, tougher looking than the longer, leaner American shepherds and I specifically remember it had a much thicker chest and stronger, shorter legs. He said it was like "a little tank"-very intelligent, loyal, protective and smart....and could rip your throat out at a word of command. It had HUGE jaws. So I called around, had my boss co-authorize the note and off he went with his loan. The cool thing is that shortly thereafter he and his dogs were in the Wall Street Journal. So that's why I say the military dogs went back to Fthe G.

I would be surprised if it was a fake. The construction and quality are just too good-almost beyond what even a jeweler can make today-and the "mistakes" are so obvious....... why would someone trying to pass off dodgy crap who can read this forum make such blatant "errors"? I think its ' a cut down bar: a "I am who I am I shall wear what I like". Has RR seen it yet?

It is the Imperial Signal Corps.

close up of the bar:

a Karnival bar to a Saxon.

This was one of those interesting German medals that had enormous political significance. In 1940 it specifically was exempted from metal restrictions by a FuehrerBefehl, as it was denoted a "combat status" decoration. Thus, it continued to be awarded throughout the war, after most LS medals had been suspended.

I still wear my high school ring and have every day since I got it in 1980. I figure I earned it, since my boarding school was an educational endurance test. It also matters, as occasionally someone notices the crest and strikes up a conversation. I got a government analyst's job once because a fellow alum (who was also wearing his ring) vouched for me. I figure I'll be buried with my ring. I am not unusual. Most alumni of my school are fiercely loyal to the old place. My son also wants to go next year, so he'll be 3rd generation.

RAb- That is a big question. Bulgarian medals were awarded to all the Central Power allies (including Turks!), but circumstances varied. Bulgarian and German troops fought together in Romania as well and German jr. officers and NCOs were assigned liberally to some Bulgarian units to stiffen their abilities.

Cool. I understand that most of the dogs had Military documents that included their lineage- some going back to Frederick the Greats' era.

If I am right- that is a darn rare medal. There were only 2 (@ 250 men?) companies of Jaegers at Waterloo and both were amalgamated with 2 other detached companies. They saw fierce fighting. I am unsure if the rank of one of the privates of one of the light battalions of the Avant battalion would have been Jaeger, but I doubt it.

well, blacklight-but they look original to me.

The "Negerata " is (apparently still) the official Ethiopian Court circular- published monthly. I have been perusing it for the original regulations. I have not yet got the Derg issues, but apparently there may be copies in California (Stanford) as well as DC. The US Library of Congress has a run of them and they are in English as well as Ahmaric. Is there another list of recipients though? I occasionally see odd Ethiopian publications pop up and always wondered if there was a military/State/Court year book of some sort.

very cool. Can you see the regimental # at all?

These awards were gazetted in the Negeret Gazetta- a complete run of which (in English) I believe is in the British Library. Some war time awards however were not gazetted- as many -if not all- exile awards.

Darn! THAT is a VERY nice Baden vets' photo (@ 1935-45)- and I LOVE the wound badge (?).

I'm with you Jason. I am quite fond of the KvK

You are correct!! This Mstr Srgt. was an MP attached to Spandau prison in the mid 1980s. It came along with a bunch of Berln photos. There were apparently some (illegal) photos of Hess, but a picker had snapped those up before I got to the table.

Looks Like Graf Von D! Bravo Glenn.

an EK1 to a mere Musketier for a battle against the USMC? OMG!!! JAW dropping!

OMG!!! Where did you get that lovely,lovely bar? :0