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Here is my latest ship in the collection of Torpedoed ship S/S C.F Tietgen of the Scandinavian-America line , she was launched as Rotterdam 1897 for the Holland-America Line but bought by S-A line in 1906 and started on the route Norway - New York A funny thing about her that she was in the first Titanic movie in 1913 !! Ha! eat dust - Cameron! But she survived Titanic with 6 years and on the 18th of June 1918 she met her destiny in U-151 wich torpedoed her NE of Bermuda. 6 life boats with crew survived after ten days at sea, the 7th lifeboat with 22 man were lost at sea. Christer

Hi I found this wonderful pic on a Swedish auction !! On the backside its written " Weinachten 1915 Konstantinopel" If I read this photo right he is a Leutnant z?r see , with a new ? EK II and "gallipoli star" How many officers was there on Goeben and Breslau ? Funny how theese photos can end up in all corners of the world Christer

Aha ! In 1917 he was at M.G Schule Rumigny and was trained to use a " Inf ZeilfernrohrGewehre" yep a sniper rifle !! A sniper from 1917 Does anyone have a pic of the rifles they used ? It so much fun to go through theese old documents , you never now what to find ... He also got Both EK II and EK I Greetings from rainy Sweden Christer

Hmm this is the third page of the doc where his combat experiences is listed He was really in the heat ! He Fought at Ypres 1915 , Somme 1916 , Chemin des Dames 1917, Verdun 1917 and so on until the fight for the siegfriedline in 1918. Puh , he survived But under the battle list is a even more interesting list, what he was trained in .... look at a close up Christer

Here is a new doc to my collection, I dont know if I am the only one collecting theese but I think they are great "Auszug aus der Kriegs-Rangliste" Theese small docs carry lots of interesting info about the man, in this case Lt d.L.I Karl Bachmann But what could be so interesting with a Lt born in Erfurt in 1881 ? He survived the war since this paper was written out in 1919... Hmm what did he do during the war ? Come on lets take a look Christer

:cheers: Puh 50 years in Red Cross service ! I thought i looked like something from Bavaria , The ones I missed was duplicates of the 6 and 7 ribbon bar and a "button" with 7 ribbons if I remember right. This guy must have made some imprints in the Bavarian Red Cross history ? Fascinating All the best from Sweden Christer

And the backside with the luxury pin arrangement Christer

But our guy from the first world war didn?t stop there with 8 awards, nope he got two more (at least) Here is the last bar I got from him, the lower bar just cost me about 1,25 $ And now the ribbonbar maker freaked out totally... putting the KVM in first place... KVM - HEK - KVK - PrRK - PrRK Then what ???? ?????? - ????? - Austria - Hungary - Bulgaria What is the first and second award on the lower ribbon? Bavarian Red cross something ? Anyone has any suggestions The backside of theese two last one is rather interesting, has anyone seen this type of pin arrangment before , age ? All the best from Sweden Christer

Now he must have been in service for sime time ? He gets the Kriegsverdienstkreuz (without swords ) And by some strange reason he places the Austrian WW1 medal in front of the Red cross medals ?? Well we now have a man with 8 !! Awards . quite impessing ribbonbar And now he has a14 mm height !! three different heights on three ribbon bars ..... talk about change... Christer

This Medic or whatever he was stayed in service ? or was "reused" in the second world war He got the Kriegsverdienstmedallie , I feel like this medal wasn?t the most liked during the war years because you do not seei it so often on ribbonbars? At least our man now got 7 ! awards and in the right order ( he will get more sloppy later in war....) Now he wear the full size ribbon bar Christer

Here is some ribbon bars who got into my mailbox yesterday , it was totally 8 auctions with ribbons to the same guy, I got 5 A special Thanks to Saschaw who tip me of this auction His first ribbonbar is with Honorcross non fighter - Preuss Red Cross II - Preuss Red cross III - Austria com medal - Hungary non fighter - Bulgaria non fighter Especially the Bulgarian and Hungary non fighter is cool because you dont see them so often , I belive that approx 200 000 Bulgarian war medals went to Germans but only 10 % ??? (I?m guessing) was on NC ribbon. I dont have a clue to how many Hungarian non fighter there was awarded. And of course the backside , I forgot to say that this ribbonbar is of the "half-height" style More to come ..... Christer

:cheers: Aha, Thanks Taz ! It was from the other side of the channel Christer

Hi all , here is another strange Tank from WW1 , it says English on the front but it dosn??t look like any English tank I seen ??? Anyone know what is used to be Christer

:jumping: Fantastic work Gordon ! It will be a true museum peiece when she?s ready Christer

:blush: Ohhps , Thanks Rick and you now what ? I just mailed Daniel and bought Weimar and Waldeck .... the two ones I didn?t buy for whatever stupid reason last year .... I can only bend my head down and say THANK YOU for theese fantastic books and to everyone else BUY THEM if they still around Theese books will (are) collectables on their own And now off for a cup of tea Christer

This little beauty arrived today, I bought it without seeing the back because I love the Mecklenburg awards. BUT look what I found on the back ! Dark blue with a makers label G G Ulrich Nachfolger Hamburg To bad he didn?t have any more medals so he could be traced. Christer

Hi, I got this photot in the mail today, nothing special but I thought when I bought it that he had a Sachsen Altenburg medal, but now I see that it is a Sachsen Weimar Eisenach General decoration in silver ? It seems to be marked on the back O Tolle I / 251 which I read as RIR 251 ? Erfurt 1916 I found a Otto Tolle who got the Sachsen Meiningen Kreuz fur Verdienst in Kriege 22.8.17 as Lt (d R ?) ArFernAbt 19 a Karlsruhe and since Erfurt is not far from Karlsruhe I wonder if this is the guy? Anyone ? Best regards Christer

:jumping: Fantastic ! Thanks Glenn and Rick Its so good to have a name to a pic Christer

I think I have show this pic before but it was before the excellent Lundstr?m/Krause books was published This officer has a Hohenzollern device on his ribbon swords/crown but where does he come from ? It says 255 on his shoulder boards , but I cant find anything about Inf Rgt 255 on the net, was it a preussian unit? what rank has he ? Wonder if I could find him in the Hohenzollern book Christer

Hi ! Not a real uniform but at least a Uhlan ! Could anyone name the Rgt? I was guessing on Uhlan Rgt 20 but not sure Christer

And here is another unlucky ship The El Biar from the Compagnie de Navigation Mixte a French shipping line wich trafficed the line Marseilles - Mediterranean and North African ports. El Biar was a small ship 4564 tons and built in 1927. She was torpedoed and sunk by aircraft 1944 (anyone who has more info about this?) I suppose it could have been German HE 111s or Italian aircrafts or even US /English if she was attacked before during the Wichy time ? Christer

:jumping: Wow Great Items ! This collecting area just grows.... Here is two of my latest findings . SS City of Birmingham from the Ocean Steamship Company of Savannah or Savannah Line This ship was built in 1923 and had the same name as an ealier ship built in 1888. In June 30th 1942 she was torpedoed by the German sub U 202 and sunk, two passengers and seven crew members followed her down. Christer

Thanks Chip and Rick , you are masters of the Old German language Here is another page in his pass maybe showing his strange travel from unteroffz to unteroffz It is like a detective work to read theese old docs And often a thrilling story behind them Christer

Last that is written is from 1920 , I suppose this a release from the military ? I wonder how many Friedrich Kreuz there was awarded? Christer

And the last entries for the war ..... Uhhhh this German hand writing I read and read and every time I read something completely different.... Christer