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Here's my contribution! Robert wie gehts?

I suspect some sort of OberArztdR as the Red Cross medal is in wartime precedence.

Wilson was very sick by 1919 and his diplomacy was weak due to illness. Had the US Senate ratified US entry into the League of Nations and Wilson dealt with the French firmly, things might have been different.....also having US troops garrisoned in Frankfurt for @ 20 years might have helped as well. Some wags suggest that is why the US still has large troop commitments in the UK and BRD....just in case. :whistle:

what is #58- the "Gator" badge?

Excellent!! In the film, "The Goebbels Experiment" a documentary with Kenneth Branagh, there's several shots of almost this very Hungarian medal bar being worn in the dinner scene close ups.

Glenn posted some excellent portraits of the major over in the WAF.

Purchasable yes, but it is official-issued by the municipality since the 1960s.

Good Lord! That's a nice bar. Solomon-any chance he can be identified? Congrats by the way! I got my BDOS magazine! :whistle:

Very cool. I have only youth banners. these are the first Munkasor I have seen. They really did make good stuff in the beginning.

Oh and just to add a note- Rick added a photo in the ribbon bar article a while back with an imperial navy vet wearing a similar bar. I think the chap was a river pilot in Hamburg. I have always wondered if German merchant seaman qualified for the Hindenburg Cross the way the Brits did.

There was a lot of confusion regarding the wear of double awards after the long service regs changed in 1936/38. There are LOTs of photos of double civilian long service awards being worn by old geezers. If I had to bet I'd reckon this chap was in trains, post office or signals somehow.

ah! verschuetten means "enclosed" or "trapped"? I don't have my Dueden nearby.

I came across a recent memoir ("In the Highest Quarters") by a staff officer who bitterly recounts how the EK became an award based upon class ("in the club") behind the lines and how bitterly common fighting men, for whom the EK1 was the apex of their world, viewed staff wallahs being handed them for things like map reading. Hey-my 5,000th post!

Uuuuhhhh..do you mean the Baron?

sad- buried alive?

Just read your website! Bravo!!! Well done. Are you also at the great War Forum perchance?

Well Jeff Floyd really is the expert. i am glad I got as much right as I did. One think-look up Order of the Liberator" on google-it shows up in all sorts of internet biographies. Apparently these days it goes to all sorts of party hacks and friends (interesting the number of Cubans who now have it-THOSE groups will be worth a fortune in 50 years. I found a number of references to awards to US Army officers..... USAF Eaker for example.

It is a real medal. Take a lok at the OMSA database. Meyer made all sorts of medals for South American and Caribbean countries. They sold off a lot of their stuff on eBay about 5-10 years ago. This looks like an older piece. The order has been revived over the past few years as the present "governmental head" of Venezuela seems to fancy himself a reincarnated Bolivar.

very cool. Photos of the lorries in the surf are quite common in german albums. Your Granduncle would have been due this medal as well:

In a word-wow- Is that photo for sale? Yee gods, think what those men saw.

very7 interesting! Thanks!

Diaries? Ohhhhhh...how extensive are these? :cheers:

Beautiful!!! There were what @ 3,800 of these to Feldwebels?

A superb piece Robin. Bravo. An object of art! Does this perhaps mean you are drifting towards Napoleonics?

wow! Are you sure 14? I thought some of those had EK2s as well.