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    David Gregory

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    1. FIRST NAMES !!!!! :jumping::jumping::jumping:

      And thanks to showing award groups, can happily cross-index that awards WERE to the same people referred to as "Hoflakei Schmidt" or whatever in the wretched Rolls-- as well as verifying awards from BOTH Lippes to the same person, allowing me to add all that nice date and place of birth data from Detmold entries to Schaumburg ones..

      :jumping::jumping::jumping:

      The work of Reserach Gnomes is never done. But the Added Value for the Schaumburg Rolls to be published later this year is now MUCH enhanced! :cat:

      Rick,

      Which Schaumburg-Lippe awards will you be including in the rolls to be published? Only the orders or also decorations such as the Kreuz f?r treue Dienste? Do you know how many Kreuz f?r treue Dienste were awarded?

      David

    2. David when I picked this AT weapon up back in the 1960's I immediately called a staff sergeant friend who was on our local police board and through him it was registered, the weapon although old and probably not in firing condition is still registered to this day.

      thanks for asking

      Erich ~

      Erich,

      You are a very lucky man!

      David

    3. I can only say that there don?t seem to be many around. Not that it means a lot, but as near as I can recall, this is the only one I have ever seen. Interestingly, Nimmegut does not even have a picture of one in his magnum opus, which tends to indicate a degree of rarity.

      It appears to me (old eyes) that this cross is unmarked.

      Wild Card,

      I have just found the award details in Peter Ohm-Hieronymussen's book on the Mecklenburg-Strelitz orders and decorations.

      He reports that 269 crosses with the inscription "Tapfer und Treu" and 14 crosses with the inscription "F?r Tapferkeit" were awarded between 1871 and 1872. Of the crosses bearing the inscription "Tapfer und Treu", 180 were awarded in 1871 and 89 in 1872. All 14 crosses marked "F?r Tapferkeit" were awarded in 1871. The recipients of the latter 14 crosses are listed.

      Your example is rare indeed.

      David

    4. Rick,

      The correct unit entry for Leutnant der Reserve Georg Eschenhagen should read:

      Eschenhagen, Georg Lt dR Res Feldart Rgt 5 19.07.18 533

      Besides all of the other tireless and unpaid work you do for us all, thank you very much for providing Eschenhagen's award date.

      From J?rgen Kraus excellent two-volume handbook of the troops and formations of the German Army 1914-1918, I know that Reserve-Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr. 5 was part of 5. Reserve-Division when he was awarded the Z?hringer L?we. At that time, 5. Reserve-Division was fighting on the Avre and the Matz.

      David

    5. The Battle of Neuve-Chapelle was in mid-March, so the units that fought there might have been rotated out of the area by May.

      Elements of Pio.-Btl. 22 were spread over 7 different divisions, which makes it hard to pin them down by the number alone.

      I wouldn't rule out the other units solely due to the lack of the right cuffs, as the supply situation was never entirely cut and dried. However, Bavarian 22. I.R. was part of 3. bayerische I.D. at the time and around 30 kilometers south of Neuve-Chapelle in May 1915. Prussian 22. I.R. was with 11. Reserve-Division in Verdun for a prolonged period and L.I.R. 22 was somewhere on the eastern front.

      13. I.D. was just a few kilometers south of Neuve-Chapelle in the area of La Bass?e from early May until late June. This makes FAR 22 quite likely, which would suggest the men were part of an artillery observation group.

      Is this a single photo or part of a group?

    6. My books arrived this week! Thank you Rick and Daniel and all of the other gnomes behind the scenes.

      Within two minutes of checking some names in the SEHO book, I discovered that a small document group I have to a Saxon Oberleutnant is not complete. :speechless1: I wonder how many more fragmented document groups I have? Never mind, at least I now know what to look out for and I can start making some dedicated enquiries about the missing parts of the jigsaw puzzle(s).

      I am still astonished at the low numbers of bestowals for some of the awards.

      The rolls are an amazing resource and absolutely essential for anyone seriously interested in researching the lives and times of the original recipients of the items in our collections.

      Will it be possible to create an online errata, perhaps in the form of a series of PDF files, as and when additional information becomes available?

    7. Rod,

      If the sword was sold by a distributor in Dortmund, it was without doubt given to the recipient by a rifle club in Dortmund-Scharnhorst, which is just to the north-east of the town centre.

      There is no rifle club by that name there any more, but I'll ask a friend of mine who lives in Dortmund and works as a historian for the Landschaftsverband to see if he can find anything.

      David (who used to live near the Westpark in Dortmnund)

    8. Could some of these be for wounds received during WW2, ie from the Allied bombing campaign?

      Don,

      I've only ever seen this type of document issued to men wounded in WW1.

      Conversely, I have only ever seen the more or less standard 1939-45 format document (except for expedient types issued in the field) for awards of that era, including those to members of various organisations serving in Germany: TENO, Beamte, firemen, railway workers, etc., who were injured during bombing attacks.

      Although I hesitate to say "never" when it comes to collecting militaria, I would be very surprised to see one of these documents issued for wounds/injuries sustained in 1939-45.

      David

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