christerd

Thanks for all your answers

Does anyone know how many of the Oldenburg PFL w Crowns that where awarded ?

And what class do it represent ?

What I can find on the Net, the Order had 7 classes

Grand Cross w Crown

Grand Cross

Grand Commmander

Commander

Officer ( No crown )

Knight 1

Knight 2 (no Crown)

The question is how many classes where awarded w Crown ?

I really like theese minis, so much work on that tiny piece

Christer

What about this miniature ribbon with verdienstkreuz (missing) 1897, 1870 with Paris, Metz and ???

I cant find the last medal ? Is it some sort of regiment order? Looks like Oldenburg colour on the ribbon ?

Anyone have any clues

christer

Aha, I didn´t realize the daten until now Christmas ! Could anyone German speaking translate the message ?

M.lb Leibf zur frdl Erg .... something with friendly wishes ???

All the best from Sweden

Christer

Book delayed and delayed and ......

Still waiting for the Book from the publisher , promised to be delivered in April, Than beginning of May and now 5th of June

Well I have at least found another pic from the landing of the Blackburn Skua in Sweden

Here is a pic from a magazine showing the plane moved from the crash site .

Today the tank moves by rail on the North. It will be a monument in the city of SALIHARD. I think that it will be the most northern monument to the tank Т34-76 in the world .

Wow, Fantastic work Sergey

Christer

Hi all, is it possible to research soldiers from Canada ? I have a photo of a Captain Brett from Royal Canadian Artillery and wonder if there is any possibility to find out anything about him?

Best regards from Sweden

Christer

Thank for your kind words , I put right away your pics on my site ( I use your GMIC nicname )

And then I foolowed the link to your site, and what a nice site I have totally missed your page before :blush:

Super nice ! Although I couldn´t read much (spanish ? ) Are you from the sunny part of Europe ? But the pictures Wonderful, i would love to use some more of your Honor Cross pictures from your website , you have super good pics of the THD and Paul Küst among others

Best Regards from Sweden

Christer

Wow ! That was a new maker And I have seen a lot, belive me but this one I never heard of

Could I borrow the pic of the maker and put it on my web page http://bayoswede.zoomin.se/index/29788.html ?

(I of course will give you credit on the page)

Great find !

Regards

Christer

He must have a factory in China. So many items on so many accounts. Here's another of his aliases I think:

ICH VERFAUFE ALLES!

http://myworld.ebay.de/ichverkaufealles12345/

I to wonder were do he get all the copies from? Some of them look really god (at least to me)

Christer

Hi, I just returned from a military market and one of the things a picked up was aribbon bar with the following awards

British War medal - 1914-15 Star - British War medal - Victory Medal

I will post pics later but my firsy question is : Was it possible to get two BWMs ? I suppose the normal order was Star-BWM-Victory but could he have been part of the

operations in Russia 1919-20 and got another BWM later and attached it first on his WW 1 bar ??

The ribbons look and smell nice , old silk ribbons but I have never seen this combo before , anyone got any clues ?

Pics will follow !

Christer

Hi Rebeccka ,

It took some time to find the book , I thought i would be quite easy but since it was published in 1997 it hade gone from most book sellers. But now I have 2 books on the way to Sweden! One for myself and one for your family.

The price of the book is 38$ , the next mission eas to find the photo again wich I thought would be the least problem.....

But, I haven´t found it yet ..... To my humble defence I have several tousands of World war 1 and world war 2 Photos and postcards. So I have a lot to search trough. And I now for sure that I havent sold it so the photo must be somewhere in my collection BUT I will find it and then I can make a bigger copy for you and enclose with the book.

I keep on looking and let you know when the book arives and I find the Photo again ( I will search the house from roof down )

Best regards from Sweden , right now waiting for spring after the worst winter since 1941-42 !

Christer

Hallo Morten, There is a street named Cambridge Street in Glasgow and the manafacturer of the Compass should be Kelvin, Bottomley & Baird 1913-1941 based in Glasgow at the time

Exellent find !

Best regards

Christer

like Uwe said: its the father of gymnastics, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (Frisch - Fromm - Fröhlich - Frei)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Ludwig_Jahn

Aha ! 1000 Thanks Uwe and Naxos

Christer

Hi all, anyone know anything about this badge ?

Very well made and I suppose it have something to do with Wilhelm ?

Best regards from sweden

Christer

And here is a somewhat bigger pic of the ribbon bar

Christer

And here is a LW Colonel who was in WW 1 and fought in Turkey?

He got EK I and a ribbon bar with EK II, BMVO 4, EHK , ?? , LS 6, LS 12,Turkey award, Turkey award , Austria bravery .

I try to post a better pic of the ribbon bar but its quite small and unsharp so I dont know if you can recognize the awards ?

Christer

First out a Photo from Luftwaffe War school in Halle 1942 , I dont know if these officers are pupils or teachers But I suppose they are puils on some technical course ?

The name of the men are written on the back, not much sign of front line awards maybe

some sort of desk offcers ?

Christer

Hi, I bought this ribbon bar recently, and now I wondering about the story it tells

First Winter war com medal - Continuation war com medal - Home front com cross - Northern Viena Cross (winter War ) - EK II

A soldier probably a private participating in Winter war behind the front in Army Group 3 (Viena Cross) then again in war 11941 alos behind lines ? Then volunteered into Waffen SS ? and got a EK II. I know that about 400 Finnish soldiers from Winter war joined waffen SS. I have hard to belive that a finnish desk soldier got an EK II or ?

Any thoughts ?

Christer

Hi all,

When searching on the net I found out that SMS Bremen was in USA 1908 ! Wich matches perfect what Andy said about the document in post 3

Here is a photo of the ship, she was later sunk in the Baltic sea 1915.

This forum (its members) is just great

Christer

Aha ! Thanks Andy !

Interesting to see that he was trained in US. So he was a Ober Heizer , maybe he got his EK II in Jutland Battle. Now I have a little more to go on when trying to find out more about Ober Heizer Otto Merten

Again Thank you for your help

Regards Christer

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Hi Rebbeccka,

Totally amazing First to have this photo identified and now to hear from you and learn that he is still alive and well.

Fantastic, wow! Please send my regards to your grandfather, do you know if he has seen the book about Allied Airmen who

landed in Sweden?

If not I could send him one as a birthday present from Sweden where he was 70 years ago.

Thanks to people like him my parents could wake up one morning in May 1945 and didn´t have to be worried about being

occupied like Norway and Denmark. My father lost a brother when his ship was torpedoed in the Atlantic and my grandfather

was standing at the Norwegian border and looking at the Germans on the other side.

A big Thank you from Sweden to the Olympic country Canada

Best regards

Christer

and last document wich is ? Some sort of discharge ?? uhh

christer

And now doc nr 3 from before the War

??

And here next doc nr 2 of 4

christer

Is there anyone out there who can help with translating these documents ?

There is a EK II dok and he was in the Kaiserliche Marine that much I can figure out but then ....

Dont even see what his rank is ?

Any help is welcome

First doc !