jaeger7

I would call it the "indian pattern"...

Hello Trooper_D,

I did also notice the similarity to the Portugese Cyper !

Therefore I send a request to the Portugese Army Museum (which is a part of the armed forces) but did not even get a reply.

I will  try to work a bit more in this direction...

Regards

jaeger7

Indeed a nice combination but the service cross is the one from Schaumburg-Lippe.

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jaeger7-de

Here is another - unnamed - bar with the silver honour cross with swords. 

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jaeger7-de

If "the first medal" is the Lippe cross - don't flip it. It is perfectly right.

My pictures must be from late 1908 earliest - as he wears the 1907 and 1908 Kaiserabzeichen.

I have no date for the 1.GRzF picture.

And yes CSM is the British term for Etatmäßiger Feldwebel.

I should have posted it in the Feldgrau-Forum - right D. ?

There are only very few pictures known with this badge.

I do know 4 pictures. 3 from Garde Jäger and 1 from 1. GRzF.

These three persons are all CSM.

Would it be a German badge, someone would have recongnized it yet, I am sure !

Yes, no result...
...no one can identify this badge.

But a member showed another Etatmäßiger Feldwebel (Company Sergeant Major) from the 1. Garde-Regiment zu Fuß with this badge.

jaeger7-de

Funny - I do have a picture of him as well...
Standing amoung the other Oberjäger of 2nd Coy - but he is the only one wearing the badge.

Hello,

I guess I havn't shown this guy here already...

...so I would like to give it a try !

What is this senior NCO (etatmäßiger Feldwebel) of the Garde Jäger Bataillon wearing ? It looks like a crowned royal cypher ?

He is wearing a double-award of the Kaiserabzeichen on his right sleeve, so he could either be from the 4th company  (Award years 1902+03) or from 2nd Coy (1907+08).

The only information I can give is, that there are some more pictures out there with Guard NCOs wearing the same badge.

Who will identify it ?

Regards

jaeger7-de

On 26/09/2019 at 11:59, David M said:

So what would he doe for a living?

 

Maurer - bricklayer
Baumeister - nowadays best translated with architect/buiding-engineer

Which crown ? There is no crown in my picture ?!

Yes  I am...

Hello,
I do have this Bavarian Pfarrer with MVO and Iron Cross.

Regards

jaeger7-de

On 20/10/2018 at 09:59, coldstream said:

A very nice find indeed and it would be nice to be able to link the two Recipients as family Members. The 1911 Census is available online and it may be worth your while trying to find George Joseph Smith there and hopefully tracing a link between the two.

Thanks for showing but be careful, you may get bitten by the British Medal collecting bug!

Regards Simon.

Hello Simon,

no, I am immune against the British Medal collecting bug - I have been bitten by other bugs too often !
(Imperial German Light Infantry, Imperial German Shooting Awards, Orders and Decorations of the Principality Schaumburg-Lippe, Vintage Photographs....need to say more ?)

I do not think that the 1911 Census will help, as George Joseph has only been 12 years old in 1911 - so no chance of finding a trace to his unborn son (I still like the father/son theory...)

Regards

Torsten

On 21/10/2018 at 10:20, Tony said:

The WWI group is only missing its memorial plaque so a very nice, almost complete find. According to Soldier Died he served in the ASC (RASC) too but probably before arriving in France.

Hello Tony,

one question regarding the plaque - it is much bigger than the box with the papers and decorations. Was it issued later / separate from the medals ?

Did your relatives have to apply for the plaque or was it send to all families which have lost a member during the Great War ?

Regards

Torsten

Hello,

the following group turned up in Germany (former BAOR territory).

Both groups are named to the pretty uncommon name "Smith" - but being found in the same estate in Germany makes me think that there is a family connection, possibly father and son ?

Unfortunatly father and son would have never really meet - as George Joseph Smith fell in 1918 only 19 years old. He served in the Great War as Gunner in the Machine Gun Corps in a Motor-bataillon.

I was really impressed that it is easy to find information on him and that there is the possibility to print a kind of commemorative certificate once you have found him in the lists of the Commonwealth War Graves Commision !  He rests on a cemetery at the Somme.

His Group consists of a War Medal and a Victory Medal, both in paper envelopes, with their ribbons, a letter regarding the shipment of the medals to the next-of-kin and a letter of condolence from King George - all in a cardboard box with his name and service number on.

The possible son served in WWII and his medals are arranged to a bar, consisting of

- The 1939-1945 Star
- The Africa Star with bar 1st Army
- The Italy Star
- The Defence Medal
- The 1939-45 War Medal

Of course these Medals are all unnamed - but still serving during the Cold War earned him a

- Long and Good Conduct Medal with clasp Regular Army - and this is named to

T/122935  S SGT  L. C. Smith R.A.S.C

Even not being a collector of British decorations, I guess these two groups are a realy nice pick-up !

Regards

jaeger7-de

Hello Wild Card,

this is an interesting piece - and I am trying to  find some more info on this Captain.

I have had a look into the regimental history of IR 15.

I did not find a Hauptmann Sixt von Armin for 1849. But there have been two Seconde Leutnants v. Arnim which promoted to Captain later and where both transfered to IR 55 in 1860.
The 1849 campaign is not very prominent in the history of the regiment, it is barely mentioned on a few pages

Maybe the spelling of the name in the book is wrong.

Furthermore I would like to find out more about the link of IR 15 to Schaumburg-Lippe in this campaign.

Regards

Torsten

Hi Wild Card,

is there a chance that you show the rim of the medal with the name ?
Is it stamped or engraved ?

Would realy love to see it !

Regards

jaeger7-de

17 minutes ago, V.Vazov said:

...

I wonder why the German headquarter will reward a German officer with Bulgarian order.

Curious to know...

...

Hello,

for a pretty simple reason: The original Bulgarian award certificate has been writen in cyrilic letters. Nearly no German could read it. And one has to show a readable "Besitzzeugnis" to proof that one is wearing this order on a legal basis...

For this reason a simple translation of the certificate has been issued by the German authorities for e.g. Bulgarian or Turkish awards.

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jaeger7-de

I would say that it is a "Garde-Tag" badge. Machinewoven silk in an oval metall frame.

Slightly unusaul place to wear it, but...

Regards

jaeger7-de

Hi !

They look very narrow for M07 boards - they should be 5.5 cm.

Could you give us the dimensions of your boards ?

Regards

jaeger-de

Hi Roman,

I guess WIC means "verwundet" - wounded in combat - so he must not have died.

He could have recovered to earn his Ehrenkreuz für Kriegsteilnehmer in 1934.

Regards

Torsten

Hello,

I do have one more name for your list:

Leutnant d. Res. Hans Karl von Winterfeld, Jäger-Bataillon 14

Libertycross III. class, 21 November 18, (No. 368)

Commemorative medal 3 July 1919

regards

jaeger7-de

Super ! Danke !

I am still in the dark as to what the "royal Saxon Rifle Corps" is supposed to be ? What is the German term?

Hi Chris,

Due to the very dark green uniforms of the Saxon Jäger units, they had sometimes been called "Die schwarze Brigade" (The black Brigade) - but there was no "Königlich Sächsisches Jäger-Korps" after 1813.

Regards

jaeger7-de