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1 minute ago, Deruelle said:

Hi

Congrats for your last purchase. Very interesting story. Thanks for sharing it with us

Christophe

Thank you kindly! ?

Here is my latest addition: it is a medal group belonging to Alexander Paul Kahle, Infantry Regiment 52.

(Above: A. Kahle, c.1920)

The Group consists of:

Iron Cross II Class (Prussia)

Order of Military Merit Cross I Class with Swords & Crown (Bavaria)

Merit Cross II Class (Mecklenburg)

Military Friedrich Cross (Anhalt) 

Flanders Cross (Antwerpen, Yser, Ypern, Somme, Flandernschlacht, Marnesschlacht, Durchbruchsschlacht, Verdun, Champagne clasps)

Regimental Commemorative Cross (JNF. RGT. 52 clasp)

Additionally:

Merit Cross for War Aid (Prussia)

1914-1918 Hindenburg Medal 

1915-1918 Bulgarian War Medal

Wound Badge (Black)

Alexander P. Kahle was born in Berlin in 1886. He attended school to 8th grade and started working in 1902 in the burgeoning film industry. He later worked as a stills photographer for Nestor, Decla, Maxine & UFA. 

He joined the Imperial German Army on the outbreak of the war with Infantry Regiment No.52, 10th Infantry Brigade, 5th Division. Details can be read at: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/5th_Division_(German_Empire)

He married Hedwig Clara Lena Peste on 5th May 1916 in Cottbus, Germany, and by the end of his service had been promoted to NCO & decorated following surviving over 180 hand-to-hand engagements.

(Above: A. Kahle, c.1915)

Their daughter Ursula was born in Berlin on 19th October 1920, while Alexander was working  with UFA. Alexander & his family emigrated to the USA in 1923, from Hamburg to New York, on board the Manchuria & arrived on 11th November 1923. 
They ended up in Sunnyvale, CA, in early 1924 & by the years end Kahle declared his intention to naturalise & moved to Los Angeles, CA. He got a job as a stills photographer for Pathè.

His IMBD page makes excellent reading for the films he worked on, including King Kong (1933), Gunga Din (1939), Citizen Kane (1941), & She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949).
More can be explored at: https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0434731/

https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bbc7b2526

His daughter, Ursula, married Ensign William Rea Heath, Mercantile Marine, and his medal bar was included in this group. Her obituary makes interesting reading (particularly her story in 1939. More can be read at: https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/lamonitor/obituary.aspx?n=ursula-heath-kahle&pid=177255854

(Above: William R. Heath’s medal bar, including the Atlantic, Mid-East/Mediterranean, & Pacific zones bars)

Kahle’s awards and accolades in the film industry can be read where much of this research came from: https://www.google.com/amp/s/ladailymirror.com/2015/02/16/mary-mallory-hollywood-heights-alex-kahle-shoots-the-angles/amp/

(Above: A. Kahle at the Oscars, c.1940s)
Alexander Kahle died on 26 August 1968. 

1 hour ago, Great Dane said:

Pacific War Zone Bar
Atlantic War Zone Bar
Mediterranean Middle East War Zone Bar

They were awarded as bars only. In 1992 a corresponding medal was created for them.

Many thanks indeed!

Hi all,

I hope you’re safe and well?

So, these arrived in the post today. They were included in a WWI German medal group of a man who emigrated to the USA in 1923.

I don’t know much about American medals, so I’m guessing they are?

Any ideas what they are for?

Take care

Chris

Thanks everyone for the help and information!

Hi Laurentius,

Thanks very much for your reply! Very interesting indeed ☺️
Take care! 

Hi all

Can anyone enlighten me as to what this breast badge might possibly be? 
It looks like a regimental badge (with 1697-1922 inscribed on it?).

Cheers!

10 minutes ago, JapanX said:

All medals and orders are original (only ribbon for the russo-japanese war medal is a replacement) but the combination is unrelistic. Unfortuntely it looks like put together bar.

 

 

Thanks for the feedback & info (it’s much appreciated!). 

55 minutes ago, JapanX said:

This medal bar doesn`t look very promising ...

 

Regarding the 9th medal - unofficial.

Obverse bears two kanji

水 - water

協 - cooperation

Any inscriptions at reverse?

 

How so, do you think that they’re all fakes?

Hi all,

This Japanese medal group arrived in the post today. I have a standard knowledge of Japanese military history from 1868-1945, however I plan to do some more reading (particularly the Russo-Japanese, 1914-1918,  the Second Sini-Japanese & 1939-1945 Wars. Thus, I bought a medal group that spans the whole period!

I traditionally collect German medals from 1848-1945, & British medals from 1899-1945, and so, I’m a tad out of my depths here. 

I understand the group consists of:

1. Order of the Sacred Treasure (8 class)

2. Order of the Rising Sun (8 class)

3. 1894-1895 Sino-Japanese War Medal 

4. 1915 Taisho Enthronement Medal 

5. 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War Medal 

6. 1914-1918 War Medal 

7. 1920 Japanese Census Medal

8. 1937-1945 China Incident Medal 

9. ???   ???   ???

10. 1937-1945 Red Cross Society Member Medal 

If anyone can confirm this I’d be very thankful. 
 

Also, if anyone can tell me what the penultimate medal is I’d be fascinated! I’ve searched high & low, & I can only assume it’s some kind of baseball medal?

Take care

3 hours ago, redeagleorder said:

Lovely bars.

Offhand I'd say the first one is to a Bavarian, judging by the placement of the MVO4X ahead of the EK. Must have enlisted just before the war (no 1911 Luitpold Jubilee Medal) and was commissioned into the officer ranks just before the war's end, thus having accrued enough service time for the long service medal (war years counted double). 

Regarding the second bar, it seems slightly odd that the bar itself has a crown and swords device on it, but the MVK2X itself has no crown; possible switched at some point in the past? Also strange of two Bavarian long service awards, particularly when the 24-year one comes behind the 9-year one. Construction from the front however looks good. Is the Luitpold Medal the 1905 or 1911 version? 

 

Cheers!

 I quite agree with the first group. 
I know what you mean about the second. The crown is odd!  I believe it’s a 1905 construction. I can’t work out why the service medals are split :S 

1 hour ago, laurentius said:

Very nice bars, and if my memory serves me right the first one is already mentioned in the Bavarian medalbar thread ?

Kind regards, Laurentius

Thanks

Cheers! How would I search that?

9 minutes ago, Chris Boonzaier said:

I wonder if he was a native of the Hansa Stadt?

It seems odd to have that tucked in there, right?!

 I’m judging purely on the long service medal!

Hi all,

I have here a couple of Bavarian medal groups here to show. I imagine that the first group was a pre-war professional who was promoted through the ranks (judging by the MMO). The second a pre-war professional NCO (??).

Any clarification is always appreciated

The first includes the MMO IV Class, EKII, Hanseatic Cross (Hamburg), & the IX Years Service Medal. 

The second group includes the Military Merit Cross II Class (with swords), EKII, Hindenburg Medal, IX Years Service Medal, 1905 Jubilee Medal, & the XXIV Years Service Medal.

I’ll post some more from Bavaria anon, as well as more from my collection (if you would be interested in having a peek?!). 

Take care everyone & stay safe!

Here are four groups I bought which arrived today. I thought that I’d share them with you!

Among them are a decorated Baden officer, a pre-war DSWA veteran, a pre-war Boxer Rebellion veteran with the Crown Order medal, & a WW1 veteran who served in the Tyrol & Silesia post-war.

 I hope you enjoy! 

8 minutes ago, VtwinVince said:

Great photo, do you have a name?

Sadly not (I’d love one!).

23 minutes ago, Chris Boonzaier said:

It is possible he served in the Schutztruppe before the war, then returned to Germany and served in the war in Europe. I have a group for a guy who did that.

Killer photo!

That’s a possibility; he has the service medals of a man who appears to have served alongside allied forces in Eastern Europe/Balkans. 

It could be that he was in DSWA before the War & contributed to the colonial war effort. 
 

thanks! 

50 minutes ago, 922F said:

Bulgarian WW I service commemorative medals could be awarded to Central Power countries' military & civil personnel  [usually upon application & payment of a small fee] involved in the war effort regardless of war theatre [Denkov & Petrov].  Some  Hungarian authorities [Konyvkiado] cite similar provisions.   Perhaps Austria offered the same opportunity.

Thus, these commemorative likely were available to any qualified veteran who asked & paid for them.  

 

Yeah, I have plenty of groups with other allied nations service medals, but it just seems a bit odd that he would apply for A-H & Bulgarian medals when he served in DSWA? 
 

I’m thinking that he may have served Ore-WW1 as Chris Boonzaier says.

Hi folks,

This is my first post to this group, although I have come across it many times in making background checks for medal groups. 
 

I purchased this German colonial set recently, and I’m confused (so I thought I’d pass this one by you all!).

Our man has the Lion & Elephant Orders, with corresponding buttonhole ribbons, however, in the photo (c.1938), he also wears the Austrian, Hungarian & Bulgarian War Medals.

so, my thinking is that he was a schutztruppe veteran from DSWA, judging from the band on his hat, but how did he manage to serve in Europe if the campaign ended in summer 1915?

Any thoughts much appreciated!