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I just tried, but it was 250 KB! I'll have to resize it. We discussed it a LOOOOONG time ago on the WAF.

Interesting. there is a similar one over on the WAF that's been floating about for @10 years to a navy person aboard the Leipzig (?).

Very interesting..... I have a CDV of the same chap in #1-got it @ 9 years ago.

OMG!!! It really pays to go to the conventions then, eh?

Anyone know what the badges on the left side are? Interesting medals too.

see here: white ribbon= "other services". http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=7354...ban+merit+order

yup-that's it. See the OMSA database. Jeff Floyd knows a LOT about Cuban orders.

WOW!!!! :jumping: I am breathless!! The Taiwanese military website actually has a LOT of information regarding their awards on it- IF you can wade through the subordinate clauses! (Not unlike German actually).

Indeed, OMSA #7648

Noor: There's a wealth of information in Hessenthal and Schreiber's book: "Die Ehrenzeichen des Deutsches Reich". I believe Paul C. has one on CD for @$25 US or so. The BayernPfalz medal #339g: a post revolution dynastic award that was allowed/tolerated by the Nazis as they seem to have had a bit of a soft spot for the Wiittelsbachs and Bavaria in general ("Ach so, du bist ein Munchner"!). It's also sometimes called the "Rupprecht medal" and of dark bronze. There were about 500 or so of the medal given out to dynastic adherents and old vets who were at the Pfalzischen war reunion as Rupprecht was the head of the Pfalz war veterans association. It had a "heavenlyblue" (azure) ribbon with a white central stripe and two equally spaced white stripes on the sides.

Yup- I think thats 'a service tunic and a 'full dress' tunic. If real (and why wouldn't they be?) they are rarer than PLMs.

Again- i learned something very new here. Thanks for posting. I had no idea that Yugoslavia had been so active in the Un peacekeeping operations. There's quite a bit about them in the UN sites. Yugoslav soldiers arriving in the Siani on May 8, 1961.

Whoa!! :jumping: Wait until Hunyadi and Herr Craig see these!! NICE and rare uniform finds.

:off topic: By the way Ed: 1. How's the OMSA convention? and 2. LOVED the JOMSA article!! :jumping:

<!--quoteo(post=285836:date=Aug 15 2008, 12:06 :name=kimj)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (kimj @ Aug 15 2008, 12:06 ) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=285836"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->The Swedish army officers disappeared from Ethiopia in 1964. The reasons for leaving I have read about are general unrest in the country and increasing tension with Somalia. The Air force training stopped in 1960. The police I don't know. I have high hopes finding a Menelik here in Sweden. Last militaria auction even had a commander neck cross. So a knight is bound to show up. /Kim<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> Perhaps officially, but I have a book on the Derg Revolution that mentions that there were about 20 Swedish officers in Ethiopia in the early 1970s teaching courses. perhaps they were private contractors?

Great pictures! Whoever painted them had some talent.

The Order of Menelik was a rather senior and beautiful award. It's terrible that it's been lost. happily, I still see them about 3-4 times a year. The Swedes had a strong training cadre at the military and police academies up until the revolution by the Derg in 1974. Thereafter they were replaced, after the Emperor was beaten to death, by GDR and Soviet trainers.

Sorry: I lost the thread where I posted this old photo and you i.d.ed him. I would be very grateful and ply you with fresh lobster next month if you would let me know (again) who this RAD General was. Thanks-

Very interesting! I have seen many photos of the German MPs at check points after the war. In Band of Brothers the final episode recounts how a drunken soldier shot one and one of the original men one night.

Are they marked 'N.S. Meyer" on the back? I think they are Nicaraguan.

By the way-no chance the Canadian Forestry chap was either there as a servant/drover or he enlisted under another name? I remember reading once that in the First World War, 1-2% enlisted under false names for various reasons. Personally Brian I would keep the France/Germany Star as it is. Your Dad thought he earned it. Had the 20mm shell hit him he'd have got the medal easily along with a lot of pain and maybe a grave plot.

If he was in an "occupational area" for 30 days didn't he merit the 39-45 star? My Father-in-laws' Dad was in the RAF and spent most of 1941-44 in Vancouver and still merited the 39/45 star. He claimed it was because of the Japanese balloon bombs and that that he'd partaken of several recce flights while the Japanese were on Kiska.

Magnificent! Bravo! Encore! :jumping:

well, well. What is that BIG medal in the center top? Looks very much like one Owain was asking about a few weeks ago.