Ulsterman

see also:

http://www.vitezi-rend.hu/

peter Czink, who I am begging to join us here can tell us more about joining the Order.

Hi gents:

Why the different ribbons?

Also, you can tell a LOT by the weights and the measurements.

Nice! Another evening lost for me.

cool. @1900? Who got this, a province level director or a Berlin bureaucrat?

wow. I am speechless. GREAT BAR!

Double wow!

Ever read Flashamns' Lady?

Queen Ravavanaola was a beast. Interesting medal from an interesting time.

Thank you Ulsterman. I don?t know why, but until I started following this and the other forum, I did not realize how commonly Austrian awards were to be found in Imperial German groups.

No, I do not remember having met Bob. Is he a member of the forum? Could he contact me? I might be able to give him a few more details on my man.

Thanks again and best wishes,

Wild Card

see here:

Bob's Father was in the Freikorps and the Guard flametrooper troops and he is writing a book about his experiences.

http://forum.axishistory.com/profile.php?m...ile&u=11343

The second award Sztahanovista badge is now reunited with Hunyadi's group. I have been joking with him it took a week-long vacation in the US. And thanks to him, I now have one in a Bakelite case! I'll get some scans together and post them here.

Funny how reunions happen - this is the second group I have been able to put a decoration back to it's main grouping (the other was an Order of Labor 2nd class)...

Bravo!!!! Bravo!!!

NICE group!

Austrian medals were freely awarded to german NCOs who were attached to Austrian front line units (often for no more than 3 months) in an effort to 'stiffen" austrian fighting prowess starting in late 1916.

Also, WC, do you know Bob lempke? He may have more biographical details on your man. he is a flammenwerfer/Guard members expert.

nice Kev.

Did you ever get that Irish medal ribbon you were looking for?

Can you get more of these? i know a chap in Massachusetts who is quite fond of all ribbony type things. I believe he has a 50th birthday soon approaching.

WOW!!!!!!!!

OMG!

Rarer than an RK certainly.

The golden rule on the Antiques roadshow- Never clean anything!

Congrats! Well done on saving a part of history.

CD-have you thought about a small newspaper ad? I'll back you.

Well, #1 is the issue here huh?

I don't know about fakes/copies of this medal, but it looks "fat" to me. But hey, I am not the expert here. How big is it and what does it weigh? Magnetic?

wow!! GREAT Wehrpass-MIA, but "there's little possibility he might return"-after fighting 15 Km THROUGH Russian lines!!!

Now THAT is history.

note the "later" date of the crusade medal award. I have seen these in Wehrpasses NO earlier than Fall, 1942 (albeit with a very limited survey sample of a dozen books), but it certainly helps date photos of these in wear-and ribbon bars to about 2 years only.

Thanks Kev!

oops- hope Hauptman doesn't mind it here.

I would think it also counts as a "excellent work" badge?

were they some sort of sports assn?

Later part of the Patriotic Front?

http://www.historia.hu/archivum/2003/030809sipos.htm

Nice ones CD-

I was looking through old emails yesterday and saw this: "excellent work"/ but to the military sports assn.

(nice wikipedia write up on them too):

with your permission... (is this your badge?)

Nice! wahrscheinlich im kreigzeit bekommen, glaube ich.

Humberto has the regulations for El Salvadorian medals.

OK:

Language question...what exactly is the difference between "dolgozo" and "munka "?

Labor and worker?

Does dolgozo have some sort of political connotation?

what does the rupprecht medal look like?

nice one-beautiful.

Wow!!!

Where in the name of Great Odin's ghost did you ever find that??!

That is uber-rare

OK- I love that transport badge -and the "masonic" one.