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I just got this- It's a VERY odd rank with these medals, so I assume hes' a Fahnrich. I reckon that fewer than 5% of all EK1 winners were below the rank of sergeant....and, well, I'll let Deruelle comment on the "extra" cross. Note there's no Regiment ID -sadly-

well, there was a borderguard general muller who was C-in-C in the 1960s. I don't have the Bundeswehr "wer ist wer", but I'd bet he's in it.

3rd Jagers!!!!!! THAT is magnificent!!! Oh to have talked to Jager Fricke!!

Glenn has a comprehensive index of all regimental histories. i think there is also one at the IWM (interlibrary loan anyone?). Try the Trenches on the web too-maybe Egbert has one.

Does the CD Regt. History chap have one for the 20 RIR? Chris posted a link to him a few weeks back. (Where oh where?)

OMG!! Lorenzo you are a one man museum of Iraqi military history! What is this stuff? I recognize only a few bits and pieces, like the plate.

sweet!! Perhaps from "ordensammler"? There is a wonderful 1st person account by a Parisian medical student in 1815 of the Allies parading through Paris after Waterloo. He mentions the Prussians wearing their campaign medals. There are also accounts of them being worn on the field at Ligny and Waterloo. Some have been found there. I always wonder if it "was there".

Good Lord!!!! THAT is rare. I am gobsmacked-

Now THAT is interesting!! The eagle attacking a dragon looks VERY familiar as a symbol. Hmmmmm... perhaps inspired?

wow!1 What could that be? I wonder if the Chilean firm is still around?

Hmmmm...research project. I'll wager there's stuff in the Hanover archives. Hofschorer might be able to help. It would be VERY interesting to see if medals were given to individuals who attached themselves to Allied units. There's mention of a few hussars being with the remnants of the Household Brigade (2-3 squadrons strong) at dusk. Oh to have a Hanoverian roll call.

Wow!! I thought the Cumberland Hussars were denied medals. That's a first! Excellent stuff. The other medal on eBay went to a chap on the extreme right of the Allied line. Today where the battalion stood is a cul de sac with row houses in Braine L' Allud (sp)? Bravo!!

Austrian postman @ 1925?

Holy Cow!!!! He was lucky to survive the "meat-grinder". Ever read the poem "killed somewhere near Vyazma"?I had to read it in college Russian 101. It is haunting-hundreds of thousands of nameless Soviet lads killed in brutal wave attacks to relieve Moscow. Uurraaaaaaaah!. Wonderful GROUP!!! Now THAT is a GREAT Soviet grouping; THAT is what Soviet collecting is all about! :cheers:

Personally I think Benedict was hard done by, screwed by the New England plutocrats. If I'd been him I'd have done the same thing-and laid waste to the coast of Maine while I was at it, so they could keep it as a chunk of New Brunswick. Kinder English heads prevailed though. My Great-great-great-great Grandfather was shot, tomahawked and scalped and chopped into pieces while scouting for Arnold at Saratoga before the redoubts. He was the senior KIA casualty at the battle. Oddly enough, the Indians did the same to his father and his son. His bits and pieces were put into an Indian basket and canoed down the Hudson after the battle was over and interred in the family plot in Hoosac.

Ah! Thanks Gordon! Very interesting. The Austrian color variations seem to be the most dramatic and vivid. Anyone got any complete uniforms out there?

Nice! i didn't know the leggings were darker. Also, what's the collar stripe? Is it a rank of some sort?

Good Gosh! Is that the gold version(s) of the SA?

Mine arrived today!! A really nice book it is. :cheers: Thanks-

The BDOS has run a "Falschung" column for the past 2 decades. Now THAT in a comprehensive book is one that i would buy instantly!

Good Lord! Something new. What is the Maiden version?

Jeff Floyd has sold a fair few of these over the years. I'll leave him to put these on (unless he'd like me to). There's a lovely 9 bar MGS in the Fitzwilliam museum in Cambridge, purchased by Watson @ 1920. Heinrich Muhlert: http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/dept/coins...on/page226.html

very ok. The KVkx is nice-looks almost like bronze. I love the denazified badges-they were issue pieces worn in POW camps etc. after the war. They used to be considered jnk, but now people actually even fake these.

whoa!! Can we see that bar close up please?

waaay cool! Have they had any luck finding the stolen artifacts?