My bad-I looked at the book again-1st battery 5th Bay. Fussart. ALL officers got a Bavarian award and an EK2. I misread the transfer dates. It was very rare not to get an EK2 if one had a BMVK3x. There are about a half dozen enlisted cases where men got a Bav. medal only and entered service in 1914/15 and served right through to 11/1918. The VAST majority of men got transferred out into other units and received at least one medal, usually the EK2. Once the men were transferred to another unit, additional awards are unknown, but numbers alone would argue somewhat against it, as there were @ 350,000 BMVKxs awarded and @ 1 million EK2s to the Bavarian army, a ratio of @1:3 during the war. Of course a number died before they could earn an additional medal. Pity poor Kanonier Johan Walter List#199 who entered the battery on 8.5.1914 and stayed with the unit throughout the war, only receiving his solitary EK2 on 6.23.1918. There seems to be no correlation at all between awards of EKs and Bavarian medals by date. that is, medals were not earned and then another followed on a few months later in due course. Almost all awards are widely scattered by date, inferring separate acts of bravery/merit. There were a number of "mass award" dates, esp. for the Bavarian medals, usually about a month after a significant battle (and a number of deaths/wounds noted). Lastly, interestingly, there are a number of posthumous EK awards! Kanonier Muller of Liebsthal, for example, entered the battery on Nov. 20, 1916, earned his BavMVK3x on May 5, 1917 and was KIA on April 13, 1918 when he was shot through his left upper arm and his back by artillery shrapnel. His EK2 was awarded on April 17, 1918.