christerd

Very nice bar Miguel !

There was 1394 FFK3X ol awarded so it not that many from the beginning and of those we can take away some that have a other awards

the difficulty is that are no rolls what I know of for the Summa and Dragoon Brigade Cross.

I can start to look for candidates but it can take a while

Christer

Wow ! Of all the names I only had two

FinnFK1X I have now 20 names

FinnFK2X I have now 52 names

FinnFK3X I have now 139 names

I have only one correction to the information you listed and that is the officer Maj Gilbert Graf Hamilton

he looks like this and he was a Swedish Officer ! He left the Swedish Army 27 October 1914 and joined the Preuss Army.

Thanks a lot Dave wonderful christmas gift

Christer

Christer,

I might have a bunch of names to add to your list. I know when I talked with Rick several months ago I had a lot of names which he didn't have on his list, which I thought was from you. Mine are mostly from Wehrmacht personnel files and from the Kriegsrangliste of the Ostsee-Division.

Dave

Wow ! That would be very interesting to have Dave

I have never seen the Kriegsrangliste of the Ostsee- Div so that would be a real Graal for me

I will have some free time during Christmas/New Year so it would be perfect if I could add some names

Christer

Great Info Andy !

See if I can find this guy , I can forget all Navy officers so not that many left to look for

Christer

No problem to have the Finnish rolls , They are right now in Excel format with a lot of pictures

But I need to fix them a little to make them readable in English

Then I can post them to anyone interested , of course they are not 100% complete ( and will probably never be )

but I see them as Ia living document to be updated.

And I´m right now working on a Roll for Order of the Wasa to Germans , quite a lot of mostly civilian who got this.

Christer

Aha Thanks Daniel , I was thinking that to.

Does anyone know how many RAO 2 x el that was awarded during 1914-18 , what I can see from Ludvigsens book there was not many awarded before WW1 , but I suppose during the war there was a lot more.

Christer

Hi all, just got this photo in the mail , it says RAO 1 X mit el on backside ?

I just wonder if that is coorect ? Or is it a 2nd class ....

Of couse if anyone could tell me who the General is , that would be a nice christmas gift

Christer

I´m to willing to help out with writing out Rolls, right now I am writing in my database of Finnish awards 1918-1945 but a change to German

names is welcomed

Christer

Hi all,

I got this photo in the mail yesterday , and thanks to big help on another forum I now know who the men

in the pic are and something about what happened after the photo was taken.

The aeroplane is an LVG CV a two seater. And the man on the left is Flugzeugführer Gefreiter Schmalt

and the other man is OberLeutnant Otto Fischer , both men served in FFA 256 from May 1918 in France.

The pic must be taken in May 1918 or in the first days of June 1918 since Otto Fischer was killed in action on June 3rd 1918.

I could very well be one of the last pictures taken of Otto Fischer before he was killed at Bailleul.

An interesting Photo with a tragic story, I wonder what happened with Gefreiter Schmalt ? If he continued into Luftwaffe later.....

Christer

Hi,

postage from Germany is 37 EUR!

Now I see why there areFerraris parked outside the main Post office

It used to be bicycles ......

I think the last one is Order of the Gold Lion of the House of Nassau. (long name)

Christer

Interesting, the first EK doc I´ve seen to a non German , but there must be some out there to Austrians . Does anyone know how many EK II that was awarded to Austrian soldiers ?

Christer

Wow , wonderful doc . Must to keep an eye on Ebay.de when this doc to a Bavarian corpral turns up....

Christer

Waiting for mine Cost 16 Eur to sweden but still, 26E total =

Christer

Hi all.

This is my first ribbon bar with the Kreigsverdienstkreuz , if I understand right this was mostly awarded to " behind the front " people and Medics , but since he have both an EK and a HEK with swords I suppose he must have been in uniform at least in some sort of action. A Medic officer?

And yes I noticed that the bar is upside down on the pic

Christer

Hi Alan ,

Fantastic ribbonbar , the last one could be a Turkish Life saving medal or maybe a Swedish Wasa Order , I am right now working on a

list of Germans with Wasa Order , most people are civilian but some military also got it,

Christer

Thanks Rick for excellent and fast explanation!

http://www.ebay.de/itm/141053050598?ssPageName=STRK:MESINDXX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1436.l2649

here's the link for auction, someone will throw alot of money...

And the buyer seems to bought a lot of things in the past ? (3000 + feedback ) and not a member here ...... to bad

I had this up 3 years ago but I thought it is a good time to get some light on it again since it is one of the

stranger bars I have

What do yoo make of this ??

Christer

The ribbon on both the medal bar and the ribbon bar is really for the Finnish Liberty Cross 2nd class medal , not the 3rd class Libert Cross

as now. But we often see " close enough " ribbons on German medal/ribbon bars ......

And most of the Germans I have in my database for Finnish Liberty Cross III 1918 was Leutnants. A hauptmann or higher would probably got a 2nd class. When awarded to Germans the cross was almost always "bumped up " a class , compared to Finnish officers.

I´m right now working on a list for Germans with Wasa Order , but as always it takes a lot of time , I have maybe a copule of hundred so far but the work goes on I will everyone know when I have a decent list to present

Probably it will be impossible to find any suspects but you never know , stranger things have happend

Christer

Wow , that was a find

He is one of the few Swedish born Luftwaffe Officers that I know of , and one of the notes in his military file in Freiburg made me feel quite uneasy.

He was marked as a convinced Nazi in November 1944 ..... " Ueberzeugter Nationalsozialist " hmm I wonder what happend to him after the war ?

I says on the Swedish forum that he returned to Sweden in 1946...

Fantastic Ribbon bar !!

Christer

I tried to make the pic clearer , but I dont know

What do you think , does it help ?

Christer

Found this photo framed in an internet auction in Sweden

First I thought he was British so I posted in that forum , but memebers told me he was a US Major or Lt Col

When I now search for the awards hes wearing I think he has a WW 1 medal with three citation stars

Is that unusual ? and a Mexcian Border Service medal , and four more that I cant see (to dark pic)

As the WW1 medal seem to be among the latest I suppose this Pic is from 1919-1920 ?

Could anyone tell me some more about him ....

Regards from sweden

Christer

Super interesting link , must have been one of the worst missions .... Unarmed alone over Germany

Christer

Wow ! Great Link , not often you se a original movie with four PLM iin one scene....

Christer