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Aside from the Joszef name - the handwriting style of all three award books (save for the carrying document in Hungarian!) is from the same person.

Yep - cant comment on what exactly they are for (perhaps platoon leaders - 'den' masters??) as they simply state Hungarian Peoples Republic Little Drummer (blue) and HUPR Pioneer (red)

More than likely, but its impossible to say for certain. With the Order of Merit to the Socialist Nation at the front he was a high party member - one of the elite. Though I would have also expected to see the Jubilee Medal in there as well. The bar is not 'full' and still has some room for one more medal. Perhaps it fell off and was never replaced. Finding photos of medal bars in wear is a hard subject as they do exist and they were worn, only for really big events (or private affairs far from the propoganda cameras. I have seen one photo at a party function where Rakosi is wearing his medals - a man who was follwoed constantly by the propoganda machines and a man who liked to have his photo taken with important 'other' people...even if they wernt really in the room with him.) Anyhow - the ribbon bar was just the prefered method for about everything.

Unfortunatly all three of these are un-numbered awards from the 1960's. As others had pointed out - these may have been members of the small contingent of Hungarian WW1 POW's who joined forces with the Red Army during the civil war - or they may have been part of the Red Army as the 1000+ Red Army trained partisans. What is interesting as a note is that for the Military Merit Medal - the requirement is a first name of Josef....(a common Hungarian name)

The blue stripe is being coverd up by the preceeding ribbon...

scan with the book and medal...

if anoyone is interested - I added one more to the lot of these - see the above link

I asked Gordon the same question the other day - between us I am the only one who has seen one - it was for the third class as I recal, from 1958 (as the cobwebs in my mind remember) but it had been folded a thousand times too many and has tape holding it together and more money than I wanted to spend. The citation read to a normal individual (nothing specail except the title 'comrade')

Bar 4 - really like this one too!

Bar 3 - one of my most favorite of all - pictures will tell the reason why...

Bar 2 - This looks like a typical bar for an Lt. Col who served the HUPR

Bar 1 - dont know about this one - looks like it could be a bottom bar for a general who had a much more impressive 'upper bar', a person with the most lack-lustre career, or a previous collector who found a way of storing his collection of service medals (I bought this just as it is)

This is the page that lists the award - there is just a ghost of a stamp listing the Military Merit Medal, but it is there. You can just see a smudge on the first line in this scan...

Got another one today - just another Military Merit Medal. But what is nice about this one is that it also comes with the Hungarian award book. This is also a Ukaz for veterans of the Russian Revolution on the 50th Anniversary.

Once again - many thanks!

Many thanks! I would take it the first ribbon is for a British Expiditionary Force to Vietnam?

Yep - its either a way of mounting your cased medals to the wall without the need of glue or a nail OR its bad chemestry... Nice sets - thanks for sharing the two tyeps!

ribbon rack -

here is the para patch -

Looked at this tunic today and what caught my eye was the RVN service medal and another ribbon that I am not familiar with. Then I noticed the para badge on the shoulder. My guess is Australian? The buttons have what looks like a horse surmounted on a lightning flash with a crown at the top? As far as I can see everything is original and untouched to the tunic - so the RVN ribbon is of interest to me - but I would like to know what I am getting beofre I get it - any help is greatly apreaciated. Sorry for my ignorance in this area. Udv!

Kevin and Peter - very nice items! Kevin - looks like you have an earlier version with the hot enamel Peter - I just want to ask what are the characteristics between the old and new Brigade Flag? Can you also post the various types of your badges - looks like you have several of the variants there (zink, hot enamel, cold enamel, etc...)

From the Klietmann book Auszeichnungen Des Deutschen Reiches 1936-1945 he states 1) Flugkapitanin Hanna Reitsch EK1 (Nov 5, 1942) and EK2 (March 28, 1941) 2) Schwester des Deutsches Roten Kreuzes Elfriede Wnuk EK2 (Sept 19, 1942) 3) Schwester des Deutsches Roten Kreuzes Marga Droste EK2 4) Flugkapitanin Melitta Grafen Schenk von Stauffenberg EK2 5) Schwester des Deutsches Roten Kreuzes Magda Darchinger EK2 6) Schwester des Deutsches Roten Kreuzes Ilse Schulz EK2 7) Schwester des Deutsches Roten Kreuzes Grete Fock EK2 8) Schwester des Deutsches Roten Kreuzes Liselotte Hensel Mutterhaus EK2 9) Hauptfuhrerin des Deutsches Roten Kreuzes Holzmann (fisrt name?) EK2 10) Schwester des Deutsches Roten Kreuzes Elfriede Gunia EK2 (March 9, 1944) 11) Germanische Freiwillige Norwegische OKS Schwester Anne Gunhild Moxnes EK2 (March 9, 1944) 12) Schwester des Deutsches Roten Kreuzes Hanny Weber EK2 13) Schwester des Deutsches Roten Kreuzes Ilse Daub EK2 14) Schwester des Deutsches Roten Kreuzes Else Grossmann EK2 (Jan 4, 1945) 15) Schwester des Deutsches Roten Kreuzes Greta Grafenkamp EK2 (Feb 17, 1945 Fortress Breslau) 16) Arztin Dr Elisabeth Potuz EK2 (Feb 3, 1945 Fortress Breslau) 17) Schwester des Deutsches Roten Kreuzes Ruth Raabe (Feb 3, 1945 Fortress Breslau) 18) Schwester Ursula Kogel EK2 (March 1, 1945 Fortress Breslau) 19) Schwesterhelferin Liselotte Schlotterbeck (March 8, 1945 Fortress Breslau) 20) Eva Halm EK2 (my German is not so good but it looks like she was recognised in Jan 26th 1956 for being awarded the EK2 in the Fortress Breslau) 21) SS Kreigsberichters M. Struve Ottilie Stephan EK2 (Feb 22, 1945 Berlin) 22) Volksdeutsche Leni Stalinek EK2 (March 15, 1945 Berlin) 23) Wehrmaschthelferinnen Alice Bendig EK2 (March 6, 1945 Berlin) 24) Wehrmaschthelferinnen Hidegard Bellgardt EK2 (March 6,1945 Berlin) 25) Schwester des Deutsches Roten Kreuzes Elfriede Muth EK2 (March 18, 1945 Berlin) 26) Schwesterhelferin Rohna von Ceuern EK2 (March 22, 1945 Berlin) 27) Schwesterhelferin Anna Wohlschutz EK2 (March 22, 1945 Berlin) 28) Frau Dr. Lemke EK2 (April 26, 1945) 29) Linie Dienst (from an article in 1952 atributes this woman with the EK2) ??? There may be a more better list - but that is what I have from the book.

Now that is something - I wonder if these were ever produced? From the statement of 'furled, unfurled or folded in a triagle' I would guess that Igor was hammering these out in the woodshed with tin and red paint?

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yes there was - but I think that the photos I took were too blury - so I delted them. As I recall it came in a "standard" (aprox 140mm x 85mm x 25mm) size case with just the award and the ribbon bar.