David M

Hi Claudio Where did you find these images? Is there a website?

The last lines of the note seem to hind to a (family-?) connection to the bassewitz family of some sort?

A family of importance in northern Germany and Danmark a.d. Haus Rastorf Grossen Generalstab Kaiserlich deutsche

Ah I see, thanks

So howis he rechtsritter and not an ehrenritter?

How could I find out more about his career?

From which book do these beautiful images come?

I think so 2. A-H did ot have a particularly extended seaborder compares to its size. There are several M. Families from the Silesia area, so Krakau sounds not to far fetched

Oh thats great info! Did he command any ships apart from the Albatros?

Hi I found this on the net, cannot read the entire book. But I am curious about this guys career and his medals. We are not related but shar the same last name. Hence the intererest.

There is a book on the oak crown, so it could be narrowed down quite a bit

Did you get the one with the oak crown id'd?

Amazing

The first part of the name to me looks like Meyer followed by something in the range of korbach. Just my two cents. I was hoping to find out his name by deciphering the unit ?

What does FA stamd for here? Feldartillerie Abtheilung? Fussartillerie Abteilung?

Is it common practice to wear the HOH3X double? Both on the ribbon bar and seperately in the buttonhole

Its an E iso a G

Oh it was my understamding that when you get a higher grade, you hand in the lower one to the kanzlei of whatever order you got. It was mostly in the rules. Amazing photo of this legendary officer btw!

Why is he wearing two of the same waldeck-pyrmont medals?

Great info Glenn, some faces to some familiar names. To bad CP Wilhelm did not have pics like this of him and his staff

Also I so believe his SLKfTD is in #7 in the first pic?

Beautiful! Any names/functions?

I have another issue with the order in which Louis wears his ODM ribbons. My theory of him wearing them in this order: Prussia wartime Prussia peacetime Other german states wartime Remaining peacetime Does not hold ground because I think his prewar REK3 is in #9 place (a plain 'purple' ribbon). And as the SLEK4 has a red ribbon with gold stripes (which I would guess to be #8, although a reversed order would feel more logical chronologically), this could hardly be #10 or #11 now could it? The puzzle continues....

Just two questions: 1. what about the neckbadge? 2. What kind of Ritter? Ehrenritter, Rechtsritter?

Hi Andy Great info! Thanks