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Very cool.

Wow! that maaay be the correct ribbon. hold on to it for grim life, because I can't find one anywhere. the Patriot resistance medal itself, issued under HRH Sellassie, was very rare. a Derg era reissue is even rater.

Ilya, the only published work so far are 2 basic articles in Orden (in German) from @. 1980.

the reissues came later, as they not mentioned in the articles published decrees. almost ALL the Derg medals seem to have followed a Tricolour pattern of some sort, making reading a ribbon bar easy. The notable exception is the bravery medal.

Sold!

Cool.

Good lord! 37 medals! An old WW2 vet.

Is his last name Pretzel? what's the next word?

Yup. Original letter with signature!

2 bucks?

Multiply that by 20 and it's yours!

AhG, It's expensive these days though.

Outstanding photo! that St George's medal is fantastic!

Very nice!

Hmmmmmm...when you reduce it, keep me in mind..ESP. For partisan badges.

I found this at my local flea market last weekend for a buck. He ended up getting nothing, despite saving Manhattan. The story was written up in Life magazine in 1945. Leo died alone and forgotten in 1986. sad.

Outstanding! I've been buying up Japanese medal bar pictures for 2 decades and while there is enormous uniformity, sometimes there are surprises.

I don't know what happened. I did my bit.

When did he get the medal? I don't see him in my WW2 book.

Actually, yesterday at the flea market I came across a shoebox with some color slides taken by the purported owner in Kaiserslautern...in 1959! so 1957-1960 only. not bad for a buck.

No kidding. I would kill for that. the Hessian officer corps is rather well documented, although mostly by genealogists.

Wow. Drool. You've made my day.

My understanding from an old Medal News article from 1980 is that campaign stars were awarded to ENSA personnel, including those in Burma who never actually made it beyond what's now Bangladesh.

So.....do you think the Balkan shield was also manufactured in 1945?

I was under the impression that jury was still out on the Lorient shield.

Still, awesome collection. bravo.

Very cool. I have noticed that since I dug out Martin Kitchens' inadvertent EK1statistics 3 years ago that Someone.........has been buying every enlisted EK1 photo on Ebay at faaaaar more than I want to pay. hmmmmmmm.....

Spiffy picture and statistically....almost a rarer combination of awards to Bavarians that the silver Bavarian bravery medal!

Bravo!

mr. Otto deserves recognition and applause for all his efforts! he has located a tonne of information on Canadian old veterans and is in hot pursuit of the flag!

he also located Brophys' odd medal, which I thought was a temperance medal. it is in fact a members' medal of the imperial veterans association, which I suspect was a precursor of the British legion.

It's in the collections at Greenwich.

huzzah Canada!

Tirpitz resisted making Deck Officers the social equivalent of Sea Officers ferociously. As Dave noted they were an 'in-between' status between officers and men. think Warrant Officers basically. they often had their own mess and did not have the social rights of other officers. They were promised officer status in 1914 by Tirpitz, but he and the Kaiser just couldn't bring themselves to 'promote' these 'sons of fishermen' and peasants'.

Think Kirk versus Scotty where Scotty was always subordinate to Wesley Crusher...Always! this led to a lot of tension and a Deck officer shortage, even during the war. Deck officers are in the rank lists and were men of considerable capability, skill, education and technical ability. After the war most did far better economically than their Sea officer counterparts.

One of the things that had great political import in 1919, was the 'social promotion' of Deck Officers by the Weimar Republican government. they were granted the right to officers' long service crosses upon demobilization, basically a way of saying, "screw you and your social snobbery Tirpitz and you effete Von's who lost us the war".

Deck officers were also given command responsibilities and included in officers' Messes/social events during Weimar.

Ah! good stuff. Thanks.