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Hi Jens, a nice group! thanks for showing us it! Regards Paul

Hello Gents, David, the ribbon is yours PM an address. any others you need? as i know a shop in town that has lots of WWI British ribbons.. Tom, thanks...i should have thought to do that to make it easier... #19 isHindenberg cross #20 is Hamburg cross? #5 is Ludwig cross The remainder....Hmmm, any ideas? Maybe we will need better pics... Thanks again! Cheers, Paul.

Nice Bar Nico! I love them with the felt backing...Just beautiful! Heres mine with minatures and ribbon bar too! came as a set! Kind Regards Paul

Thanks Paul! Yes i thought that the Anhalt on a medalbar was a bit hard to find.... But we will need one of the learned Gents to shed more light on this.. Lots of veiws...no comments......

Hello Gents, I scored all these ribbons some i can see are German but some are unknown as yet.... Some i will be keeping...as i have medals for them....If anyone see's one they desperately Need....i will send to them...free of charge! like some of the other Gents being generous elsewhere...and in keeping with this spirit..... Will post better pics when they arrive! I posted two pics ...one i made slightly bigger for detail? I think that the topmost one is a ribbon for an English Neck order....CBE? not sure... But what is the strange one with the two colors? Green and Yellow???? Comments invited! Regards Paul

Hello Gents, Another bar which is finding its way down here..... And a single parade mount Mecklenberg KVKII Comments are welcome! Enjoy! Kind regards Paul

Nice Austrian pins! Cheers Paul

I agree with Bob! its a very nice piece indeed! Thanks for showing! Regards Paul

Just had a look...Never seen a 966 marked EKI before....Hmmmm Baaaad Asss fakes indeed! Some people....i dunno....

I second that! Wow! he must walk sideways with all that tin! there is two medal bars there! Thanks for sharing the pic Thierry!

Hello Gents, I have several KO crosses but only tow not on bars, and they have different cores...one would have the dates up high and the 'W' is standing out more proud than the other one which has the dates down low..the crowns are different with the low date having a low crown and the high dated on the crown it sticking out more proud Maybe the gents at 'KO' contracted out the core making and thusly they come from different sources... Hmmm, food for thought.... Kind regards Paul

David, I agree..you do need to have a basic understanding of the language to decipher the script...but my biggest gripe is the writing style...its the sort of writing you have to really study to ascertain which and what letters are being used to portray the words....for example...Karlsberg...looks like tarlsberg in the script..bit confusing if you had no idea...but i did know of Karlsberg.... Yes i am now starting to see the wisdom in having the groups...it really does tell us more...about the man who went thru the wars and earned the 'gongs'........... brilliant stuff! and ..........it tells us about the" PERSON" involved....this is my first real group...and i have asked the seller if he has more...and if he has contact with the family....I wanna know more! ( and i want a pic of the soldier! and i want the Soldbuch!..... it just makes it more real!) Cheers mate! for sharing your experience with reading and deciphering these important pieces of History Kind regards Paul

Gents, I do not condone this sort of behaviour at all! and i am ashamed to say i have bought a bar of him.... the only thing wrong with it...was either he..or someone else had replaced the pin with a poor excuse of a pin...Blimmin thing had scorch marks from being run thru the grinder to remove the swarf from the end of the pin..the sharp end...Gawd! But this sort of mutilation is INEXCUSABLE!!!! would the gents like his E-mail....to bombard him with cries of "Shame on you".... i can supply it for this purpose.....evil grin....he heh!

Wow! my education is getting better all the time! I had no idea! ( but then i am a baby when it comes to this hobby!) Thanks Gents Paul

Yeah! i seen that one and burst out laughing...Impossible it screams at you!

David! I take my hat off to you! Thanks so much for the interpretation of his service records. I am in awe of your ability to read all this! I must apologize for the jumbled order of the postings.... musta been tired LOL If i can help in any way with information from this mans records for your database please do not hesitate to let me know.. Thanks Biro, ( Marshall) good to see fellow New Zealanders on this Wonderful forum! Thanks Stogie...i aimed to share this mans amazing service records and to show that there is still groups out there like this! You will not belive how much i paid for it!....wait for it...... 63Euros!!!!!!!! i know...i am still blown away !!! Cheers gents, Paul

and just so we can take a wee break in the document scanning.... heres my latest arrival! A nice wee single EKII medal bar with felt backing

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and so on..... Gents...if you can shed any light on what the writing is all about... i would be ever so gratefull!

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Heres a page which is extra to the pass...it has the award entries for the EKII and the wound badge

Thanks David, i had a funny suspicion thats what it could have been...but when i read mantel, and feldmutze...i thought it was for kit issue. Here are pages 10 and 11 from his book with extension added below and it folds back in. More to come!