Sal Williams

Thank you Robin! Maybe you might want to do a totenkopf types thread for us "one skull is the same as another" guys

OZL is the prettiest hands down!! Don't be fooled by all the excess bells and whistles on the others guy, elegance class unique materials,... it's the OZL!!

Don! ANOTHER????!!! Just moments ago I was in the lead then i was neck and neck and now im a straggler???? Beautiful!

Thanks Robin, how does one tell????

Is that what I am seeing there?

How about a big blur Rick

And an interesting I.D.? Any ideas on this one?

Thanks folks!

This one looks older than SCW to me

This one is beautiful! I believe it was a spanish awarded wound badge during the civil war and LC members also recieved it?

another similar one

next up

Hi guys can you help me with these?

first up I was wondering why the 2 different ribbons on this one.

Sorry Ricky, the pic was ebay I had no control ,..I know nosink, nosink!

Hi Guys anyone know who this is?

Hi Robin,

I was asking because I have a SC winner pic with the Kav.Rgt.5 skull on his hat. Thought there might be a chance. I am LC obsessed

I believe the RK winner was your great uncle. His son was your mothers cousin and his sons relation to you is cousin once removed I think..

Yes I think your mother is right! I think that makes you his cousin once removed? The RK winner died? His son who was also in Stalingrad survived (but was not an RK winner?). The son was a Russian prisoner? Very complicated! You must start at the beginning! Start with the oldest know realation

The chronology confused me there. Your great uncle was the RK winner? or the cousins son? You are used to thinking in these relation ways but it is confusing to me

My dad. I don't want to answer too much detail. I got myself in huge trouble with people on WAF and I'm a little gun shy after that. You don't tell RK collectors your great-uncle was an RK winner. They do not accept it. It's not possible. I could never have met his wife, my cousin. It's simply not possible that her son was a vet held in Russia for MANY years and a Wehrmacht officer with his own awards on the Eastern Front. NOT POSSIBLE! So, PLEASE, call me a liar, but please not to my face here on the web. It REALLY upsets me.

I missed all that!!! Tell tell!!!!!!

I figured it must be around that era! So is that dad or grandad?

Brian, How did you guys end up in the USA?

Thanks Guys!

Gerdy keep your peepers open, you know I am obsessed!

Very interesting fellows! Brian, I knew you had history but never knew it was so extensive! You were doomed to be a collector from birth! Have you posted your family awards etc. anywhere? As a poor bastard child my history is kind of murky I did scrounge up a few pics of my hungarian ancestors that Rick and Glenn shed light on from WWI. How did the "von' get bestowed? Who gives the title out?I have no idea how that worked. my crazy grandmother kept trying to put von in thier name but the family wasn't having any of it Really neat to see such a well documented and important family. Perhaps you could give us a small history of each one that you know about. I am sure many of us would be interested!

best, Sal

Well we won't believe you when the neat orderly cross refferenced list comes out in April I think you should charge $ now while it is still a mess!!!!!

Most useful I am guessing would be award documents with dates ranks etc. Then I could put Ricky to work on the carrers of the fellows

Comes from this cross