christerd

Let me present they later General major Hugo Montgomery Cedeskiöld born 1878

and started his military career as a sub leutnant in 1898 ,

As you maybe see in the photo he has Bad OZL and Preuss KO III and Oldenburg House Orden

Great stuff !

I´ve seen some mortars but never this kind of things

Christer

:cheeky:

Agree 100%

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Very nice pics Markgraf

Christer

I agree with Garfordhouse the quality seems to get better Some of the stuff I have seen recently I could easily bought if just the seller had been someone else

Arrgh this moron destroy our hobby .....

Christer

Hmm Very nice m/1871 bayonet , but the lack of stamps is a mystery , ..... or could it be a bayonet sold to Argentina ???

I know that Argentina bought rifles ( very rare) but I never seen a m/71 bayonet for them ? (probably even rarer)

A real collectors item !

Christer

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And see now that you also have a 27th jaeger Badge

I have now slightly "Hulk" colour Very Nice items

Christer

Nimmergut gives a number of over 40,000 for the combatant medal and over 5,000 for the non-combatant. As I understand it, one did not actually have to serve in China to receive the non-combatant award. Those that were involved in planning, equipping and other support activities were eligible, even if they never left Germany.

Thanks Beau , wow that was a lot of combatant medals I didn´t there was so many Germans in place or did they give this medal to all participating nations ?

Christer

Does anyone know how many of these that was awarded ? Bronze and silver ones ??

The German force was quite small but maybe these where awrded in greater numbers anyway

Christer

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Very Nice AOK ! I love the Mutzenbands , not often seen , and of course the civilian Crosses

Zuverlässig

Christer

I found a Photo in my collection, and the question is what type of Rgt had these oakleafs on the collar ??

The man sitting on the left and the other man standing with woundbadge in silver has the same collar leafs.

Jaeger Unit ?

Regards

Christer

Only 183 in 1916-17?

I have other numbers:

Friedrichskreuz 2. Klasse am Kämpferband: ca. 18’000 – 20’000

Friedrichskreuz 2. Klasse am Nichtkämpferband: ca. 700 – 800

Aha , They probably awarded a lot during the last years . Then the Anhalt Kreuz isnt so scarce at al, more like Hamburg Kreuz then.

Now Its easier to pay right price for one

Thanks Claudio

Nice photo!!!!!!

Is there anything written on the reverse?Maybe we can locate the trench, if we´d know the unit and the date

Hi andy, No nothing on the back sorry to say ....

Ok , here is some more Pilots from Jasta 78b

Offzstellw Emil Prime

Rudolf Lang

Ludwig Wittmann

Joh Reitz

Xaver Hüttner

Willy Bruchner

at least Ludwig Reimann had two air victorys what I can find in the rolls

some more names for you Glenn

Christer

Hmm I just realized that the b in Jasta 78b means that this is a Bavarian Jasta or ?

In that case it should be easy to get the names from the Kriegstammrolle for Jasta78b (located on Ancestry.com)

Could anyone confirm that 78b was in fact a Bavarian unit

Regards

Christer

Thanks all,

Its true what Brian said that often the most interesting things are "hidden" in the background. Now I have started to look at all my

photos more closer and see if I can find some more suprises

Christer

Is it really ?

I found this photo on Ebay and Could it be the same man ???? or am I just imagning things ?

Thanks Gentlemen

Ill keep you in mind Dan

Christer

Aha again , Thanks Karsten

So a china after all , any clues to his regiment ?

Aha ! Thanks Karsten , So I didn´t have any right at all .... MEZ II and Southwest Africa medal, a Colonial fighter in other words

Great :jumping:

Here is some names Vzfw Ludwig Riemann, Karl Kallmunzer , Lt Hans Jungwirth , Vzfw Michael Sigman , Lt Robert Dycke

Christer

Another photo which droped in my mailbox today , a typical trench scene with some veterans showing up before the camera

you can see in their faces that they have seen more then anyone should in a lifetime.

But the interesting thing is in the background

A snipers armour , I´m not sure that they where used for snipers only but this is the first card I got in + 20 years of collecting

showing this protection armour.

The postman made my day

Christer

Here is a nice card I just bought

Even in small Sweden you can sometimes get really nice items from the Great War ....

Here is a guy from a Art unit ? with the 1916 helmet , and a Mauser pistol with wooden stock by his side !

Is not often you se these pistol armed soldiers , what kind of position did they have ? anyone who knows more

Regards

Christer

Hi Kevin,

I have seen recently in Ebay.de some strange Order of the Star , smaller and made as neck decoration 4th class ?

Seller says for foreigner ..... is these all made up fakes or ?

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Rumanien-Star-Orden-4-Klasse-Halsband-Romania-/130574757323?pt=Militaria&hash=item1e66dcadcb#ht_500wt_1287

christer

And a closeup of the bar

Hmm, I see now on the closeup That the second award probably is a Allgemeine Ehrenzeichen insted of the smaller Mezz .....

sorry for the wrong topic name but the scanner is fantastic showing details sometimes .

Christer