Peter Orincsay

Photograph number 3. The rank and uniform is unknown to me. Maybe someone can help with that as well?

A Soviet artillery captain.

I helped a friend of mine to scan some of his old WW2 photographs in his collection. We both cot really curious of the texts on the backside of some of the pictures. I hope there is some friendly member who can help us with some Russian translation? Here is the first photo:

Here´s a photo of the different "Szolgálati érdem érem" medals. The photo is the courtesy of our fellow gentleman Cimbineus.

That is really a beautiful piece. I have never seen a miniature of that RK medal before. I have only a RK-cross on a chain together with some other Hungarian miniatures. Here´s a photo of the RK miniature.

Well, at this time Hungary and the Hungarians had a bit more equal rights then back before 1848. A lot changed after the The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867. Another informative Wikipedia link: HERE By the way, "Emlék Érem" Means "medal of remembrance" in Hungarian. Greetings Péter

I would say that it´s the 50th anniversary of the 1848-49 revolution. On the 15th of March 1848 Petőfi was the key figure in starting the revolution. Since then Hungarians have the National day of remembrance, this day. Bem was one of the leading generals on the Hungarian side in this revolution. More here: wikipedia link Greetings Péter

Yap! Practically anything that has been photographed! Greetings P?ter

Today's work... Soviets for everyone!

Well, I looked for this at many places and several sources shows that the leggings were the same colour. In this case, the contrast between the leggings and the pants were so big, I assumed them to be darker. I also looked at the poor quality of this poor soldiers uniform. There is a visible big whole above his left breast pocket. So the pants might be used as well as his field coat. Here is a photo I used to get some details right..

Here?s the colourized result of the upper left picture, from the previous album-photo.

It?s always fun to combine collecting and interest in digital computer work. Not long ago I bought a pack of old Austro-Hungarian military photographs form fellow gentleman IVER here at GMIC. Scanning and working with the photos, my fantasy runs wild thinking what might have happened to the person and how it might have looked like the day the soldier went to the photographer to have his photo taken. I posted some digitally colourized photos here on the forum before.. Now that i have a lot of new photos to work on, all that can keep me away is my regular work and maybe my wife.. :rolleyes:

Inspired by the great help i received, i looked for the 1954 Flood defence badge on the internet. This is what i found!

Thanks for the great information ! Does anyone have a good photo of the medals mentioned in the thread? Or the Hungarian name of it. Would be interesting to see this quite rare medal. Here is the obituary of the officer. When he died in 1982 he was a Lt Col. in the air defence. He became 55 year old and was buried with military honours.

Today i got this old photo of a Hungarian officer, which was sent to my grandparents in 1982 together with the obituary of the officer. I guess he was some far away relative, friend or so, since he had the same family name as my grandmothers maiden name. Now i wonder if any of You Gents, may have some more information about the uniform, medal or rank. I am thankful for any answers! P?ter

I got this nice Bremen Hansa-Cross in a trade recently. Although i don?t collect German Imperial militaria, i often get things like this, medals that are just too good not to get! So now i find myself having built a small collection of German medals aside from my main Hungarian/Austro-Hungarian colledction.

The details inside the box.

The condition of the box was just magnificent!

The upper side of the box.

This week i was able to add this beautiful "Moritz Tiller" bronze Signum Laudis in it?s original case to my collection. I already have this medal in my collection but the box was a beauty itself so i couldn't?t resist.

In what prize range can these medals be found for? I have never sees any medals like this anywhere. My own copy was found at a flea-market in the city of Korca in Albania. I think i payed like 5 Euros for it.. Greetings P?ter

Well, that could absolutely be! I did n?t understood exactly that part, but as you mentioned that he was awarded SMVM on ribbon of MVK, i now understand ! Greetings! P?ter

The information in Hungarian is the following. (Sorry for my poor English grammar) ---------------------------------------------------------- In the name of the Emperor and apostolic royal ruler (K.u.K), in the year of 1916 January 13th, the final utmost decision taken in Vienna, that the Sir, First Lieutenant to be awarded, because of the heroic display in front of the enemy (Vit?zi Magatart?sa=Heroic display), to be recognized and rewarded the military cross of valor with the trifold there to, to be worn next to the silver medal of valor (Signum Laudis). As a decision of this I inform You there of. Budapest 1916 February 1st H....... Minister of defence -------------------------------------------------------------

Just a quick google gave me this information. 1.) B?hm-Ermolli 2.) B?hm-Ermolli 3.) B?hm-Ermolli