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Odds are that she'd be cool with all the "icky army stuff" around the house that most of are so fond of, and that spouses are so stereotypically adverse to...
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Was it a matter of the silver and bronze FAM being not being awarded sequentially, or the soldier choosing to wear the highest grade? -
This one makes me nervous. A recepient of both grades of the FAM would have been entitled to wear both, and the EK would have been in first place after 1934 when the Hindenburg Cross came on the scene. Saxons wearing their awards first is nothing unusual for wartime bars, the Bavarians did it too. However for a bar of this vintage??
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For what it's worth, the Flandernkreuz isn't even "legal" for wear on a medal bar with the Hindenburg Cross.
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He's got ribbons for the American Theater and the Europe / Africa / Middle East Theater, but no indication of service in the Pacific.
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Can anyone explain this strange little antique store find??
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Does anyone know if there is a listing of the German units involved in the liberation of Helsinki in 1918? --Chris
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Nice work!
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How about Oberleutnant Friedrich Freiherr von Berchem (I believe he mustered out as a Hauptmann), or Hauptmann d.R. Georg K?stner? Both Bavarians.
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Foreign Legion AND infantry clasps?
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That's a good sign, I was getting in the ballpark.
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Just to double check my understanding... Gross-Namaland + Oranje = 1906 ?
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Makes sense. I knew that the ribbon bar was post-1915, but didn't know the likelihood of EK vs. MEZ vs. MEZ + EK on the buttonhole. Frankly, I'm rather curious as to whether any related medal bars might surface out of the same collection.
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I'm still something of a newcomer to the history of DSWA... Would the ribbon in 1st place be more likely to be a 1914 EK, or a MEZ?
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There's a very real chance that I may have met him at some point along the line, knowing that we've both frequented some of the same shows. In all honesty, I can't put a face to the name though.
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Are 4 and 6 Russian?
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Actually, Don passed away in 2006 from what I understand. I bought this bar from Ed Anderson, who mentioned that he had some 20 or so more colonial medal bars that were going to be coming his way in the near future. I'll PM you his email address, since I don't know if he'd want it published on a forum. --Chris
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Apparently, he had a respectable collection of colonial, China, and DSWA stuff. Rumor has it that some of his medal bars are soon to hit the market.
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(Apologies for the cruddy macro photography on this one.)
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This beauty just arrived today, formerly of the Don Frailey collection:
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Wish I could come closer, but I can definately say that it has the "look" of a vet's decoration ribbon.
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Found a photo of the vaguely similar ribbon I referred to earlier.
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May be the first time I've ever seen Mr. Crowley quoted in a military history context...
