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Just bought this rather unusual ribbonbar At first it looks like any other private/Nco/officer bar with EKII - HEK - Hungarian WW 1 Med - Bulgarian Bravery Med - and .... Yes Official medal from Olympics in Sweden 1912 - and I think a 1897 medal at the end The 1897 seems a little bit odd to put after three foreign medals but stranger things have happen before . I wonder if there is a list of all Germans who participated in 1912 Olympics ? If that last one is a 1897 he must have been ? 20 then ?? which means around 35 years old 1912 so probably competing in Shooting or Horseriding etc and then into WW 1 (on eastern front) and survived Hmm Interesting Christer

Wow talk about fast answer Thanks William and Bavaria Here is a better pic of the swords Christer

Next Cross is a little more Brownish in colour and lies in a box from Christian Lauer , but what maker ? Thanks in advance for all help, I know there are some real experts out there on these crosses :cheers:

Another MVK III , in Box from Jacob Leser , but is it a Leser Cross ? I would like to get a box to every maker at least III class , 2nd class and above is so expensive so I´m glad if I just can afford a box at all Christer

Next one is a MVK III m Kr , this I have in a box from Christian Lauer But I cant almost see W. C on the swords so I guess its a Weiss & Co ? Christer

Another one MVK III , this one is in a box from Gebrüder Hemmerlie The interesting with this cross is that the swords is marked GH 900 ? Is it a Hemmerlie Cross ? Christer

Hallo all, I have some MVK´s in Boxes and need some help to Id the maker so I know if the boxes are the right one I hope the pics are good enough to judge who the maker is Christer Here we go No 1.

Hmm nice bar and not hard to Id I suppose , I know how many Liberty Cross 2nd 1918 that was awarded and the combo must be unique These crosses were made in Germany by the way , by the firm Otto Oertel in Belin, while the medals were made by Sporrong in Sweden. But still 6600 Euro is a lot, but if I had that kind of money to spend on my hobby so why not Nice catch Christer

Wow , I missed him Thanks !

Hi all, I bought a Victory medal but when looking at the rim its says 2. LIEUT. W . MANCER and nothing more ? I cant find any W Mancer on the net , could it be to an South African or Canadian soldier ? Thanks in advance from Sweden Christer

Sometimes when you see Woundbadges in Gold it makes you wonder what the story behind it is So here is a true story about a real survivor , at least until 1920 Lt Christian Phillip born 3 Sept 1893 , he was fighting from the beginning and fought the whole war on the Western front from 24 Sept 1914. He was in KB Inf Rgt 6 30 Feb 1916 he got his first award EK II and 6 months later he got wounded the first time of many... It was 4th Aug 1916 during fighting in Verdun that he was wounded in "Links oberschenkel" ? (1st Wound.) He got MVO IV x 8 jan 1917 and of course got wounded again May 3rd 1917 by handgrenade in left side of head (2nd wound) Sometime after that he got MVO IV mKr x and in Aug 1st another wound this time in Right arm by hand grenade (3rd wound) March 9 1918 he was awarded EK I and .... yes he was wounded again by a bullet in the head at Somme 28 Sept 1918 (4th wound) he got the Verwabz schwarz 1916, and in 1918 he got the one in Mattweiss and the war for Phillip wasn´t over yet ... He was fighting in Munich April 1919 and later in the year he was in Kurland / Riga and he was wounded again ! 10th Nov 1919 hit by bullet in the throat (5th wound) hmm But he still kept on fighting March 15th 1920 he got the final ? wound "Schwer Brustschuss Lunge" (6th wound) If anyone deserved a woundbadge in Gold he must be the man .... What I can see is that he was in "behandlung´" in July 20th 1920 and after that I lost trace of him.... Fascinating story Christer

Thought I would bring up this old thread again with a couple of new documents Maybe we can find more docs and finally get some numbers and dates together BrK2 Document dated 10 June 1918 to Otto Bonhagen Erstaz Batl 40, 10 Ersatz Div ? doc numbered D1488/15 awarded 12 July 1915 BrK2 Document dated and awarded 20 June 1917 to Gefreiter Wilhelm Hulke Doc nr K 2652 BrK2 an Gelb Blauen Bande awarded 8 March 1917 to Otto Sievers Doc nr K 1184 any more out there ? Christer

Hmm I found one LtdR Theo Röver that died in 1919 , could maybe one on the list .... the search goes on still 14 suspects Christer

I bought a very interesting ribbon bar from a forum member (hope you don´t mind that I borrowed your photo Christhope ) A five awards ribbonbar with EKII-HHO3x-OV3bx-FAII-EfF and of course its the OV3bx that makes it so unusual With only 33 awarded during WW1 I though I would try to narrow down the possible recipients. Here is the suspects: OberLt Richard Suhrkamp IR 91 Lt Eckert IR 91 Lt Pflugradt IR 91 Lt Hess IR 91 Lt Schumann IR 91 Lt Weichardt IR 91 Lt Becker IR 91 Lt Wilhelm Conze IR 91 Lt Max Büschel IR 91 Lt Helmut Gabriel IR 91 Lt Ernst Peltner IR 91 OberLt Fritz Hellmuth IR 91 Lt Stolz IR 91 Lt Lueder IR 91 OberLt Ziegler IR 91 Lt Carstens IR 91 Lt Franz Smits IR 161 OberLt zur See Heino von Heimburg KM OberLt zur See Max Valentin Uboat Com Lt Eckert IR 91 Lt Georg Röver RIR 74 Lt Karl Geise RIR 17 Lt Karl Arnold IR 115 OberLt Georg Ruhstrat FAR 58 Lt Reinhard Murken RIR 79 Lt Walter Böning Jagd Staffel 76 Lt Edward Gesell Pioneer Komp 185 Lt Friedrichsen RFA 17 Lt Siegfried Harms Fus Rgt 86 OberLt Ahlhorn IR 82 Lt Wegmann RIR 229 Lt Thien FAR 62 Lt von Essen FAR 62 Of these 33 we can remove some Thanks to Dave we are now down to : 14 ! Big Thank You Dave, from 28 to 14 [ Lt von Essen is a top candidate because he had exact these awards but do anyone have any info about how many of the above 28 (22) who had HHO3x ? or was killed during war or anything other info I will keep on searching ! Christer

I found max 19 candidates that wasn´t Commanders but still in U Boats Now its just to find out who of the 19 he is After looking into rank and other awards I now down to 6 possible Gerd Suhren OberLt Ing U-37 RK 1940 Heinrich Petersen Stabssteurmann U-99 RK 1940 Carl-August Landfermann OberLt Ing U-181 RK 1943 Georg Olschewski OberLt Ing U-66 RK 1944 Hans Johanssen OberLt Ing U-802 RK 1945 Heinrich Prassdorf OberMasch U-1203 RK 1945 Got Him ! And it was not one of the above I missed that he had the DKIG , its Rudolf Muhlbauer ! The only Maat (leading seaman) that got the RK while serving in Uboats. born in 1919 and died 2000. He was on U-123 and had a record ? of 748 days at sea Christer

And last one :cheeky:

And another Pic

I´ve just got these photos , a Kriegsnmarine guy with a Uboat Badge given Knight Cross ! But who is he ?? There could be that many KM with Knight Crosses exept from U boat Commanders I guess ? Anybody got a clue ? Here is the first pic

Hmmm , a real mystery I heard about the Ohio Ribbon faker but now a Berlin name faker Christer

Ahh, you are right I read it as Dallwitz but it is Dauwitz ! Thanks , now I have a new name to search for Christer

Hi, I just got this photot in the mailbox , but I cant find anything about a General von Dallwitz ? Nor in my Rank lists or on the net .... Could anyone have some info about him or any other officers on the pic ? Bad Altheide is in Poland so I suppose this should be on the Eastern front 1917 The seller wrote " Gen Dallwitz with Flieger Offiziers" Christer

Wow , could just be ! I actually don´t remember when I bought them but good chance that is was last year Do you have the medal bar ?

And the backside with name ? Thanks in advance Christer

Hi, could someone help me with the name of thsi officer ? He has a rather nice ribbonbar from WW1 First front

A small but still nice one , if I read it right ? Lippe Detmold KVK , Preussen RK Med III , Würt Charlottenkreuz And the little button with a HEK wo Swords . Could have been a Lippe Detmold Doc ? To bad he didnt got some more awards Happy easter everyone Christer