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Hi Noël, Welcome on board. Nice to see such aera of interrest, congrats. here is one picture of German officer with dog Christophe

Thanks for your comments. To Komtur, you are right, at the time the photo has been taken, in 1911 (I have said it in the first post) Hesse was only Oberstleutnant, sorry for my mistake Christophe

Oberst Richard Hesse

Another information, for the moment I have found only 13 Saxon officiers who received peacetime WK3. Christophe

Here is a new photo I have received recently. The photo has been taken in 1911.This officer at this time has in his medal bar the following medals : Knight cross 1st class of Albert Orden of Saxe : 23 May 1905 Long service medal for 25 years : 1906 Red Eagle Order 4th class of Prussia 23 September 1908 Centenary medal : 22 March 1897 Knight cross of the Orden of the Crown of Wurttemberg : 23 September 1908. He received more medals after. Knight cross 1st class of Merit Order : 23 May 1912 During the war he received : Knight cross of St Henry : 14 January 1916 Officer cross with X of Albert Order : 10 February 1915 And both iron crosses. His promotion Leutnant : 13 October 1882 Oberleutnant : 20 November 1888 Hauptmann : 18 September 1893 Major : 23 April 1904 Oberstleutnant : 11 July 1910 Char. Oberst : 20 March 1912 Oberst : 22 February 1915 z.D. : 20 March 1912 Generalmajor : 27 April 1918 a. D. : 31 March 1920. During the war, he served in the R.I.R Nr. 245 and in Ersatz Infanterie Regiment Nr. 24 I like the saxon medal bar with Wurttemberg knight cross of Order of the Crown. I hope you will like it. Christophe

New photo of officer of the PB Nr. 12 Christophe

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Hi, Here is a very nice Saxon Major pair of shoulderboards. Christophe

Hello, You have got a very impressive collection. I like more particulary the St Stanislas order with X. Have you got the box to go with this medal ? Christophe

Hi, I have looked this ribbon bar carefully. I don't want to say same thing than others collectors here. It is just strange not to see peacetime saxon and others States ribbons here. Why only the long service ribbon ? Usually it should be next ribbon of the EK2. Claudius has right about the TWM, why only this one and not the others. For the moment I have found no candidate with those medals.Usualy the officer has the Merit Order. That's life ! It will interresting to know what is the result with black light. Christophe

Hi, It seems to be the Saxe Ernestine commander cross with swords on ring (so awarded after 1934 and before 1935 when it was forbidden by German law) Christophe

Hi Chris, I see you have found a new photo of Oberst Paul Krause from IR Nr. 185. Here some infos : Paul Krause 1864-1940 Sekondeleutnant 13.9.84 Premierleutnant Hauptmann 10.9.98 R7r Major 27.6.10. Oberstleutnant 15.2.15 MM Oberst 22.3.18 Cc char. Generalmajor aD 31.3.20 char. Generalleutnant aD 27.8.39 From Infanterie Regiment 18 to General Staff, Lininekommendant Magdeburg when the war started. PLM 1.4.18 HHOX in Milit?rwochenblatt 13.1.17 BV3 1.10.17 Kdr Inf Regt 185 BZ3aXmE 5.1.16 Kdr Inf Regt 185 BMV3X 6.7.15 http://gmic.co.uk/index.php/topic/12104-the-ribbon-bar-of-oberst-paul-krause/page__hl__krause__fromsearch__1

Thanks for your comments Paul has right, there is nothing on his arm. The photo is not in good quality but I have it, that's the most important for me Christophe

"Famous Chest" of Major d.R. a.D. Hermann keil

Now just for fun, here is a photo of "Famous Chest" of Hermann Keil

Here is the photo of Hermann Keil taken with the RIR 133 unit.

Hi everybody, I have bought this ribbon bar two years ago. I can make positive id. This one belonged to Major d.R. a.D Hermann Keil. He was born on 18.08.1867. The following grade : Leutnant d. R : 25.11.1894 Oberleutnant d. R. : 22.08.1902 Hauptmann d. R. : 23.10.1908 Major d. R. : 22.05.1916 a. D. : 01.05.1919 He has received the following medals : - Knight cross of St Henry of Saxe, 25 août 1916, - Knight cross 1st class with X of Merit Order of Saxe, 16 avril 1918, - Crown to knight cross 1st class with X of Albert of Saxe, 11 janvier 1916, - Knight cross 1st class with X of Albert of Saxe, 31 octobre 1914, - Iron cross 2,d class, 18 septembre 1914, - Landwehr long service medal 1st class, 13 mars 1909, - Cross of honor 3rd class with X and crown of Reuß, 10 février 1915, - War Merit Honor Cross of Saxe Meiningen, 7 septembre 1916 - Iron cross 1st class : 1914-1916. From beginning of the war to May 1916 he served with the Reserve Jäger Btn Nr. 13 Then from this date to March 1918 he served with Reserve Infanterie Regiment Nr. 133. The last unit was the Reserve Infanterie Regiment Nr. 107. In 1934 Major d. R. a.D. Hermann Keil has written the history unit book "Das KS Reserve Jäger Bataillon Nr. 13 im Weltkriege". Christophe

Hi, For me it is medal bars, ribbon bars, medals, pieces of uniforms of Kingdom of Saxe. Christophe

New information about Blohm. He received the RE3KrX on 6 April 1916 Christophe

King Georg of Saxe

Daniel, New date for you Oberleutnant d. R. Johann Eckholt, he received the HHO3X on 9 June 1917. Christophe

the long service ribbon is the blue one after the one with swords and oak leaves Christophe

Hi, A very interresting ribbon bar. On question, where is the centenary medal ? Strange not to see it here. I think this bar may have belonged to one Oberst or Generalmajor. The third ribbon may be the Red Eagle Order 2nd class with X and oakleaves. It may be id. Thanks for sharing it with us. Christophe

Oberst Max Horn

General Oppermann