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last one at finally some Orders !! Let me present Hugo Montgomery Cederskiold born in 1878 First Officer 9 Dec 1898 In Inf Guard Rgt 1 Lieutnant 30 Jan 1903 In 1910 He has the following Decorations Swedish Medal for the late King Oscar Gold Jubilee Wedding, Swedish Medal for the new King Gustav Silver Jubilee Wedding! , Order of the Z?hringen Lion 2nd class w oakleafs, Knight Danish Dannebrog Order Captain 12 April 1912 This photo must be from 1912-1915 I think In 1921 he also have Knight of the Swedish Order of the Sword, off Great Britains Victoria Order, Knight of Greece Liberty Order, Knight Oldenburg House Order, Preussen Crown Order 3 class. ColLt 4 June 1926 In 1928 he also have Knight of the Swedish Wasa Order, Knight French Honour Legion, Finnish Civil Guards Merit Cross Colonel 23 May 1930 In 1933 he have Commander Swedish Order of the Sword 2nd gr, Knight Swedish North Star Order, Knight Swedish Wasa Order, Commander Belgium Leopold Order, Commander Finland White Rose Order 2nd gr, Commnader Norweigian St:Olof Order, Commander Spanish Military Merit Order w white cross Gen Maj 1 July 1937 1939 he have Commander 1st class Swedish Order of the Sword, Romanian Grand Cross Order of the Crown , Commander Danish Dannebrog order 1st class, Commander Noweigian St:Olof Order with Breast Star And in 1949 still beeing GenMaj he also got Commander Grand Cross Order of the Sword, Commander 1 st class Swedish Order of Wasa , Commander Great Britain Empire Order 1st class. He was GenLt in 1952 and General 1963 ( 85 years old ) !! A looong carreer for a young officer Christer

The nest young man hade some military experience , I belive he was in Finland 1939 or 1941 I have to go deeper in the archives to find out. But her he is, Axel Fredrik Carlos Adlercreutz born 1890 Started of his carreer as an officer 31 Dec 1912 Lieutnant 24 April 1915 in Inf Guards Rgt 1 Captain 4 Dec 1925 (and no awards this far) Major 28 April 1933 and in 1933 he have been with foreign forces witout fighting for 26 months? in 1934 he have Knight of Swedish Order of the Sword, Knight of Finland White Rose Order, Knight of France Honour Legion ColLt 11 Sept 1936 the he also have Knight of Swedish Wasa Order, Commander Danish Dannebrog Order 2nd grade, Commander Finland White Rose Order 2nd grade, Commander of Netherlands Oranje Nassau Order with swords, Commander Norway St:Olof Order 2nd grade, Finnish Civil Guard Cross of Merit Colonel 24 March 1939 He also have in 1949 Commander Swedish Order of Sword 2nd gr, Knight of Swedish North Star Order, Commander Latvia Order of Three Stars, Commander Poland Resituta Order 2 class, Commander German Eagle Order, Commander Hungary Order of Merit, Off of France Legion of Honour, Finland Liberty Cross 1st class with swords, Finland Liberty Cross 2nd class ws, Finnish medal for air protection. Would have been nice to see a pic of that decorated chest in 1949 Christer

I thought I would show you some Swedish military photos for a change Here is three young officers around 1st world War. All three of them was to stay in the Army and at least one of them got to the top ! All three was working as adjutants to the king at some time. It is interesting to see what kind of Orders theese men could get. First out is: Nils Axel David von Heine born 1889 and first become officer 31 Dec 1909 in Inf Guards Rgt 1 Lieutenant 29 March 1912 , in 1921 he has Knight of Italian Crown Order Captain 7 dec 1923 in 1928 he has Knight of Belgium Leopold Order in 1933 he has Knight of Swedish Order of the Sword, Commander of Latvian Three stars Order, Knight of Norweigan St Olof Order Col Lt 1 July 1937 1939 he also have Knight of the Swedish North Star Order, Commander of Belgium Leopold Order Col 1 Oct 1948 1949 he also have Commander Danish Dannebrog Order 2nd grade In 1949 he belongs to the reserve.

And last one, a coulor picture but ohhhh so small Christer

And another one , here he has a medal ? But what kind of medal would be worn like this?? Christer

And here is another pic of the unknown General Christer

Awards in Wear ! I found theese pics of an Bulgarian GenLt ? at least his General and I think he has the badge State Security Honor on him, the pics are real small ! He also has some other badges that I cant recognize. And a BIG ribbon bar with 30 ribbons , sorry to say I cab?t get them out At least two Dimitrovs , Red Banner and ....... blurr At the back of one card there says something like Dimo Dimov ?? Anyone know who it is ? A General from Ministery of Interior ? Christer

And here is the award cert issued in 1988 to a Colonel Reorri Radkov Reorriev ?? Is that right spelling Christer

And here is a late awarded First class Order, notice the small hanger so called "baby" hanger theese come late 80s I think and not many orders/medals was awarded with this smaller hanger, but you often see loose orders/medals that not have been awarded with this small hanger. Christer

It not that easy to see on my pictures but the order is made out of at least three pieces 1 the "background" 2 the middle with roundel and text 3 the lion In the first issues the red is enamel I think, but the last issues seems to have plastic instead Christer

Inside the other box lies a I class , Gold award Christer

The inside of document, this was awarded in 1981 as usual in theese late docs there is no photo Would have been interesting to see what rank he had Christer

And the award cert for this II class He has no rank stated Christer

And here is the back which shows the construction with several parts.

And the beatiful multipiece Order Silver II class and Heavy !!

I hope this one haven?t been talked about earlier, I have to admit that I missed that Long service medals for Ministery of Interior had been discussed in another thread by Rick when I showed mine in another thread... But I think theese are new. The Order of Civil Valour and Merit shown in a earlier thread was instituted 1966 so its maybe a suprise that it took 8 years before Military personel got a similar order. 28th of May 1974 the new order was instituted in two classes Gold and Silver. I dont know on what grounds theese orders was awarded but only a total of 8746 pieces was awarded until 1991. Here is the two boxes for I and II class Christer

Wow ! Great Album Peter One of the few ships that had been sunk TWO times...... Super interesting story Christer

And here is my two boxes, both was delivered from seller with type 2b medals if I may call them so. Ministery of Interior old crest without dots in MVR. There is no crest on the box, but they do look old. I think there is a lot to learn about theese LS medals Christer

Hi Rick ! Lets see now : 1: Army Long Service 18th July 1959 2 different issues 1959-1971 and 1971-1991 2: For the Ministry of Interior personel, 27th August 1960 2 issues 1960-1971 and 1971 -1991 ( + Firemen 1960-1971 only first issue without MVR) 3: Ministery of Interior KDS late 1964 1 issue 1964-1969 4: Construction Corps June 1969 2 issues 1969-1971, (just two years) and 1971-1991 And I just realized that I missed one type completly Nr 2: The Ministery of Interior first issue with old state crest has TWO issues maybe 2a= old crest MVR 2b= old crest M.V.R 2c= Firemen without MVR 2d= new crest Here is pic of the two different issues of the 2a and 2b I hope I didn?t mess it up now.... Christer

And the two rare types at last , I only have one KDS, thats why I choiced to show you 2nd class medals.... The firebrigade version had the MVR on the bottom erased and its quite scarce but the last type with the letters KDS is even more scarce ! And if anyone have a box for a KDS version I would really like to see it (or a document) Now I am going out in the sun, its almost 30 C here in Sweden now som Iam boiled sitting inside with a hot computer Christer

But on the backside the differences appear ! First out is the two different state crests Before 1971 and after Christer

And here is the other type of Long service medals : To save time and space I show all 4 ! in one pic Theese are for the personel working for the Ministery of Interior Hmm, Police, Firebrigade and Secret Police of course.... KDS This is 2nd class of 4 different types look all the same dosn?t they? FRONT

And the early ones with the old crest < 1971 Puh , and then all the docs..... I have a lot of hunting to do ? Christer

And the backs with the crest post 1971 This is a real collectors challenge to get all the varations I still have some more to go ! Christer

And then of course there is the ordinary soldiers long service : For Army Personal Here is 1st, 2nd and 3rd class Front Christer