Ulsterman

Two comments:

Flower war medals were awarded to a variety of folks-not just people in uniform, so he might hypothetically undefined be a civillian

and

has anyone ever seen this type of 'miniture bar before?

Also, the KDM before the rest of the stuff is bothersome to me: most everybody I have ever encountered with this was a tram driver or lathe operator or a typist.

Lastly: I think it's a fake.

Interesting file, do I read correctlt that his son is born almost 10 months to the day after his marriage, but then #1 son dissapears by 1914, when daughter (Irmintrude?) arrives.

How about Wer Ists? Is he in there at all?

Bloody hell! This is GREAT stuff! I did not know the Bavarian archives gave out this level of detail!

There is another avenue of investigation:

Try the Bundesarchiv and look for the war diary of that artillery park. Also, wasn't there a Zeug-officers' association? They might have more in an obit.-or even an obit in his local newspaper.

The Austrian commemorative medal at the front hints it was mounted post Anschluss. Says Berlin copper to me.

One of his colleagues:

you mean like this? Lot 672

http://www.wallisandwallis.co.uk?

Ahhh--

if only we could see the royal files burnt before August 1947?

You mean as in civil defense/ARP?

whoops.

What!

I am outraged!

I demand my money back!

Nice avatar FK.

By the way, it was possible the guy had a 1st class:

I've been squinting and measuring and you are right!! he is prussian. there's a hint of a circle in medal #2, but in looking at it at an angle, magnified in sunlight one can see the cross arms.

I'm buying everyone a beer!

There's another ebay pic of a Napoleonic vet up for sale at the moment-I think most folks think it is a shooting medal.

Wow! Great stuff!!

I think it's Lassiter!

I love that RAD bar; it's a cracker!

Lo-thou art the good twin. Verily I shall reward thee with a small beribboned trinket for thy toilage in the ancient tomes of Asgard!

Vivat!

Thanks.

At first I thought I had bought a Napoleonic noncom Prussian vet; the ebay picture was fuzzy (taken in @1880 in Philidelphia, PA., USA) and there's the color shift-but then I looked hard and he's not a Prussian. But I'm not unhappy, because I think he might be a Baden Napoleonic vet-or at least someone on the other side of the barricades in '48.

What do you think?

Right you are-I never actually looked on the back before-just read the the inscription (ball point pen) above the page-now obviously put there by a Yankee trader. And I suppose a smarter man might've actually noticed the epalettes. The rest of the photos are of IR 59 or 65 through 1939. Can you read the actual signature?

Still-nice set of photos:

ED: GREAT stuff!!

Here is a close up of his 'economical' ribbon bar-note the 'wing span':

Here is a photo given at Christmas to one Lt. Gruse, a happy-go-lucky Adjutant in Poland in 1939:

Oops-never mind. Hawaii huh? ..... 1922: tough station.

Still, he deserved a rest.

This is a 2 star army general I bought over the weekend-@ 1921 I reckon: 2 years overseas and a LOT of awards-especially for those days. Anyone know who he is?

Thanks Kev:

I suspected it was as such-not bad for $1 US. I'll probably send it to Rick L. as a happy 55th birthday pressent. he likes this sort of stuff.

I got these at a flea market in the USA while on business last week. The top ribbon bar I'm certain is Italian-given the WW1 campaign medal-but the first ribbon has the look of the medal of merit-but the stripes aren't white; dye run from damp or something different?

The enamel I have no clue, but suspect is police. The WW2 US bar is a classic enlisted, wartime bar..

Any thoughts or comments?