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Wow ! Of all the names I only had two FinnFK1X I have now 20 names FinnFK2X I have now 52 names FinnFK3X I have now 139 names I have only one correction to the information you listed and that is the officer Maj Gilbert Graf Hamilton he looks like this and he was a Swedish Officer ! He left the Swedish Army 27 October 1914 and joined the Preuss Army. Thanks a lot Dave wonderful christmas gift Christer
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No problem to have the Finnish rolls , They are right now in Excel format with a lot of pictures But I need to fix them a little to make them readable in English Then I can post them to anyone interested , of course they are not 100% complete ( and will probably never be ) but I see them as Ia living document to be updated. And I´m right now working on a Roll for Order of the Wasa to Germans , quite a lot of mostly civilian who got this. Christer
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Hi all, I got this photo in the mail yesterday , and thanks to big help on another forum I now know who the men in the pic are and something about what happened after the photo was taken. The aeroplane is an LVG CV a two seater. And the man on the left is Flugzeugführer Gefreiter Schmalt and the other man is OberLeutnant Otto Fischer , both men served in FFA 256 from May 1918 in France. The pic must be taken in May 1918 or in the first days of June 1918 since Otto Fischer was killed in action on June 3rd 1918. I could very well be one of the last pictures taken of Otto Fischer before he was killed at Bailleul. An interesting Photo with a tragic story, I wonder what happened with Gefreiter Schmalt ? If he continued into Luftwaffe later..... Christer
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EK 1914 An EK to a foreigner.....
christerd replied to Chris Boonzaier's topic in Germany: All Eras: The Iron Cross
Interesting, the first EK doc I´ve seen to a non German , but there must be some out there to Austrians . Does anyone know how many EK II that was awarded to Austrian soldiers ? Christer -
EK 1914 If you were a faker....
christerd replied to Chris Boonzaier's topic in Germany: All Eras: The Iron Cross
Wow , wonderful doc . Must to keep an eye on Ebay.de when this doc to a Bavarian corpral turns up.... Christer -
Hi all. This is my first ribbon bar with the Kreigsverdienstkreuz , if I understand right this was mostly awarded to " behind the front " people and Medics , but since he have both an EK and a HEK with swords I suppose he must have been in uniform at least in some sort of action. A Medic officer? And yes I noticed that the bar is upside down on the pic Christer
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The ribbon on both the medal bar and the ribbon bar is really for the Finnish Liberty Cross 2nd class medal , not the 3rd class Libert Cross as now. But we often see " close enough " ribbons on German medal/ribbon bars ...... And most of the Germans I have in my database for Finnish Liberty Cross III 1918 was Leutnants. A hauptmann or higher would probably got a 2nd class. When awarded to Germans the cross was almost always "bumped up " a class , compared to Finnish officers.
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I´m right now working on a list for Germans with Wasa Order , but as always it takes a lot of time , I have maybe a copule of hundred so far but the work goes on I will everyone know when I have a decent list to present Probably it will be impossible to find any suspects but you never know , stranger things have happend Christer
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Wow , that was a find He is one of the few Swedish born Luftwaffe Officers that I know of , and one of the notes in his military file in Freiburg made me feel quite uneasy. He was marked as a convinced Nazi in November 1944 ..... " Ueberzeugter Nationalsozialist " hmm I wonder what happend to him after the war ? I says on the Swedish forum that he returned to Sweden in 1946... Fantastic Ribbon bar !! Christer
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Found this photo framed in an internet auction in Sweden First I thought he was British so I posted in that forum , but memebers told me he was a US Major or Lt Col When I now search for the awards hes wearing I think he has a WW 1 medal with three citation stars Is that unusual ? and a Mexcian Border Service medal , and four more that I cant see (to dark pic) As the WW1 medal seem to be among the latest I suppose this Pic is from 1919-1920 ? Could anyone tell me some more about him .... Regards from sweden Christer
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Super interesting link , must have been one of the worst missions .... Unarmed alone over Germany Christer
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Wow ! Great Link , not often you se a original movie with four PLM iin one scene.... Christer
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Finland My Finnish Collection 1918-1945
christerd replied to christerd's topic in Northern European & Baltic States
There was really a breast star to the first class but its extreme rare Only 11 Germans got the Liberty Cross with Swords and Breast star 1941 ..... Ernst Busch He had other Decorations Wilhelm Canaris Had other Decorations Waldemar Erfurth Had other Decorations Kurt Fricke Had other Decorations Rudolf Gercke No Match Hans Jeschonnek Had Romanian Awards Alfred Jodl No Match Günther Korten No Match Georg Lindemann No Match Felix Steiner No Match Kurt Zeitzler No Match But it is not " normal" to have a neck order on a ribbon bar , but since the owner was German maybe he did a " Weimar" Christer