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Finland Visiting the Finnish military museum in Helsinki
Claudio replied to Claudio's topic in Northern European & Baltic States
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Finland Visiting the Finnish military museum in Helsinki
Claudio replied to Claudio's topic in Northern European & Baltic States
Finns served, like Mannerheim, in the Russian Imperial Army, since before 1918 Finland was a Russian province (Grand-Duchy)... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duchy_of_Finland -
Finland Visiting the Finnish military museum in Helsinki
Claudio replied to Claudio's topic in Northern European & Baltic States
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Finland Visiting the Finnish military museum in Helsinki
Claudio replied to Claudio's topic in Northern European & Baltic States
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Finland Visiting the Finnish military museum in Helsinki
Claudio replied to Claudio's topic in Northern European & Baltic States
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Finland Visiting the Finnish military museum in Helsinki
Claudio replied to Claudio's topic in Northern European & Baltic States
A whole group of decorations and documents of a Finnish Officer who served in two wars in the Finnish army (Winter War 1940 + Continuation War 1941-44) and later served as officer in elite troop with the US Army in Vietnam... missing in action! What a story... and what a great soldier! -
Finland Visiting the Finnish military museum in Helsinki
Claudio replied to Claudio's topic in Northern European & Baltic States
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Finland Visiting the Finnish military museum in Helsinki
Claudio replied to Claudio's topic in Northern European & Baltic States
Finnish SS Nordland Standarte!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11th_SS_Volunteer_Panzergrenadier_Division_Nordland -
Finland Visiting the Finnish military museum in Helsinki
Claudio replied to Claudio's topic in Northern European & Baltic States
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Finland Visiting the Finnish military museum in Helsinki
Claudio replied to Claudio's topic in Northern European & Baltic States
More beautiful decorations... I love the style and quality of Finnish orders and decorations. They really put a lot of thinking and new design ideas... not like today's Germany "bravery" crosses... for example! BTW Finns and some Baltic states adopted the svastica as their symbol well before the Nazi Party in Germany... very likely AH copied from them, apart from the fact that it's a thousand years old symbol... -
Finland Visiting the Finnish military museum in Helsinki
Claudio replied to Claudio's topic in Northern European & Baltic States
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Finland Visiting the Finnish military museum in Helsinki
Claudio replied to Claudio's topic in Northern European & Baltic States
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Finland Visiting the Finnish military museum in Helsinki
Claudio replied to Claudio's topic in Northern European & Baltic States
A nice picture of the Standarte of the Finnish Jäger... I love this flag! Finnish soldiers have been trained by the Germans in WWI... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_Jäger_troops -
Finland Visiting the Finnish military museum in Helsinki
Claudio replied to Claudio's topic in Northern European & Baltic States
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Dear forumites, I'd like to show you some interesting pictures of a great miitary museum in Finland: http://www.mpkk.fi/en/museum/. It's very nice to see so much dedication to keep up the history of their own military forces and the struggle against Russian (Zarist and later Communist) imperialism. First image... me in front of the museum... a Finnish Stug with Hakenkreuz! Claudio
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Hi Rick! He could have been over-dressed, but many medals on this bar he really deserved to wear, since he participated most of the campaigns. Let's try to identify this court mounted medal bar... 1st attempt... you're more than welcome to fill in the blanks!! 1. Sweden, Order of the Sword, Knight 2. Finland, Order of the White Rose of Finland, Knight’s Cross 2nd class 3. Finland, Civil Guard’s Iron Cross of Merit 4. British Empire, Cape of Good Hope GSM, 1880-97, 1 clasp, Bechuanaland 5. British Empire, Queen's South Africa Medal, 1899-1902 (1899), 4 clasps Wittebergen ???, Natal, Wepener ???, Cape Colony 6. British Empire, King's South Africa Medal, 1901-02 (1902), 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 7. British Empire, Zulu Rising Medal, 1906 (1907) clasp ? 8. British Empire, 1914/1914-15 Star 9. British Empire, British War Medal, 1914-20 10. British Empire, Victory Medal, 1914-18 11. France, Victory Medal, 1914-18 (could also be the Belgian Victory Medal) 12. Russia, Order of Saint Anne, 3rd class (?) 13. Russia, Order of Saint Vladimir, 3rd class (?) 14. Russia, Order of Saint Stanislaus, 3rd class (?) 15. Finland, Swedish Brigade Medal 1918 16. ??? 17. ??? Good luck with the remaining medals... (just two...). Ciao, Claudio
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Hi Vinland30, The medal bar is not mine... I just took a picture at the Swedish Army museum in Stockholm: since the complete uniform and the medal bar of this officer is there on a temporary exposition, I guess the group probably came just on loan from the family or from a private collector. Ciao, Claudio
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Imperial Russia Studio photograph of an Imperial Russian officer/cadet?
Claudio replied to Claudio's topic in Russia: Imperial
Thanks for your explication and translation! ;) -
Imperial Russia Studio photograph of an Imperial Russian officer/cadet?
Claudio replied to Claudio's topic in Russia: Imperial
The badge at the button's hole looks like a Roman Empire kind of eagle... Here's a better picture of it. Ciao, Claudio -
Imperial Russia Studio photograph of an Imperial Russian officer/cadet?
Claudio replied to Claudio's topic in Russia: Imperial
Dear colleague! Thanks for your kind reply. I already thought that he might have been a cadet of a Zarist military accademy. I'll try to make some close ups of the cross, but it might be difficult. Can you read and translate to me what is on the reverse of the picture? Many thanks in advance. Ciao, Claudio -
Dear forumites, My brother found this picture in Switzerland. He thinks it might be an Hungarian soldier... I rather think, looking at the collar insignia, that it should be Russian pre-1917. There's also something written by hand on the reverse of the picture that looks like Cyrillic alphabet; it would be really great if somebody could translate it for me. Any valuable inputs or comment on this picture are really very appreciated! Many thanks in advance!!! Ciao, Claudio
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Hi everybody! I found him! Ivor Thord-Gray (April 17, 1878 - August 18, 1964) was a Swedish adventurer and soldier. He had quite a very exciting and eventful long life... very well traveled guy! Wow... he's been everywhere: in Africa serving as prisoner guard then in the Militia after with mounted police, in the far east (also Philippines), served in the Chinese revolution, joined the Mexican revolution, fought for the British Army in WWI on the Western front and after with the Russian "white" army against the "reds", later immigrated to USA and became US citizen. The Swedish article on Wikipedia mention that he was for a little period also with the French Foreign Legion in 1909 in Tonkin (China)... http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=29973 1897-1901 (not 1895) Cape Mounted Rifles Artillery (Pte) 1902-1903 South African Constabulary (Cpl) 1903-1905 Voluntary unit Transvaal/1907 Northern Mounted Rifles/ (Cpt 1904) 1906 Royston´s Horse (Lt not 1901 but 1906 - Cpt 1906) 1913 CO Pancho Villas Artillery (1st Capt) 1914 COS 1st Mexican Army (Col) 1914 2/C 5th Northumberland Fusiliers in UK (Maj) 1915 CO 13th Bn Northumberland Fusiliers training in France (Maj) 1915-16 CO 11th Bn Northumberland Fusiliers in France (LtCol) 1916-17 CO 1/25th and 2/25th (Overseas) Bns London Regt (LtCol) 1917 Bde Cdr "Theodore Roosevelt" Div. Dissolved 1917 in when President Woodrow Wilson didn´t back up the project. 1918 Canadian Expeditionary Force to Russia (LtCol) 1919 1st Siberian Assault Division (MjGen) 1935 COS to the Governor of Florida USA (MjGen) 1960 Fil Dr (PhD) Uppsala University, Sweden Incredible!!! Such groups are really unique! He's even mentioned in 3 article and different languages on Wikipedia (English, Spanish and Swedish!): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_Thord-Gray in English http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_Thord-Gray in Swedish http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=29973 Ciao, Claudio