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A couple of MMI additions to my collection: the 3-place, WWII-era (I assume) 16mm mini medal chain I picked up at the 2024 SOS. The MMI looks much like one J.Temple West posted years ago in this forum that was on an Assmann-marked sales card. The Egana mark can be seen on the obverse under magnification. The person I bought the chain from had no attribution information for it. The second MMI mini I picked up at the recent 2025 SOS. It is 16mm J.Saz design that matches the full size medal very closely.

Thanks, Gordon. I agree, and wish I could have afforded more. The VFMR table had a Spanish Cruz de Guerra with a Meybauer hallmark, and what they claimed was a Spanish Merit Cross in White that was German made (both circled below). That prompted me to start a post about the White Merit Cross in the WAF International forum here.

I haven’t done an OVMS Show of Shows (SOS) review in a while, and since I just attended the 2025 SOS, I thought I would. The show was as large as ever: 2,000+ tables, and a plethora of militaria of all kinds. Since this is the Spanish forum, I’ll limit this to what I encountered from Spain and it’s allies in the Spanish Civil War (primarily Germany, Italy, and Russia). This show had more Spanish and Spanish-related militaria than previous shows which surprised and delighted me. There was plenty of Legion Condor (LC) items to be found: German Spain crosses of each grade, LC medal bars and ribbon bars, even some Italian and Russian military medals, insignia, and ephemera. Of course there were Spanish items as well, some from some from the Spanish Civil War and WWII periods, but mostly from the modern era (post WWII to modern day). I can’t vouch for the reasonableness of asking prices, but I found most vendors were open to reasonable offers on the few items I purchased. Some of the best displays were at the tables of Giel's Militaria, VFMR Orders & Medals, and the Francois Saez collection, but other, smaller vendors also had some Spanish militaria to offer. I’ll let the photos below tell the rest (the white spots in many of the photos are a reflection of the overhead lights). Salud! More 2025 SOS photos . . . More 2025 SOS photos . . .

Another great photo thread from 2007 below by Jacques shows numerous KM officers & men sporting Spain Crosses -with and without swords- with a few sporting the Spanish Civil War Campaign Medal ribbon, some that might be sporting it (photos too blurry/small to tell for certain), and some not sporting it at all. I supposed it boiled down to circumstances and preferences.

Well, I should know by now that if I go far enough back in this forum I'll find what I'm looking for . The photo below was posted in a thread by Jacques in 2007, clearly showing this KM sailor wearing ribbons of the Spanish Red Military Merit Cross and Spanish Civil War Campaign Medal.

Thanks, Gordon. Yes, I remember that thread. My curiosity was piqued on this subject by the photo below posted on WAF: other than the German Spain Cross being worn on the wrong pocket, the ribbon for the Spanish Civil War Campaign Medal/Medalla de la Campampana is conspicuously absent from his ribbon bar. I know ribbon bars weren't always kept up to date, but it still got me thinking.

I know German Kriegsmarine (KM) personnel who were on ship in support of the nationalists during the Spanish Civil War received various grades of the German Spain Cross at the wars end. But did Spain authorize award of the Spanish Civil War Campaign Medal/Medalla de la Campampana (example shown below) to those regular German-uniformed KM officers and men at sea supporting the nationalist cause, but not in-country as part of the Legion Condor, Gruppe Drohne, etc?

Vendor says 3cm wide . . . https://en.todocoleccion.net/military-decorations/rokiski-observador-republicano-aviacion-espanola~x207423535

Tupper, on the Internet, I found an Observer wing companion to your pilot . . .

Thank you Antonio!

Gordon, I've seen the term "Rokiski" used when describing every type of Spanish Air Force insgnia (primarilly wings) - often as a manufacturer of such insignia. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Rokiski literally means 'Spanish Air Force Emblem', and is not the name of a Spanish insignia company. Do I have that right? Tupper, please forgive me for hijackng your post for my tangental question.

Nice! What size?

One more: a 22mm red Military Merit Cross, along with a new family portrait.

A new addition from the 2024 SOS.

I am posting the Egaña MMI example below for reference purposes. All of the Egaña-marked MMI's posted in this thread (and in similar threads on other websites that I've seen) have the single raised "Egaña" mark front and reverse. The Egaña MMI below is of a slightly different design, and has no mark on the front, with the reverse having the "A.M." (left side) and "Indrustrias Egaña" (right side). Also of note on the front is the missing ~ over the N in 'Campana'. Has anyone else seen this type of Egaña MMI before? Could this be a German manufactured example? I found the medal below while surfing the web.

Nice!

Another German from this forum,2006, belonging to dond: Order of Mehdi.

Antonio, I was searching the Wehrmacht Awards Forum, and came across the photo below from WAF member, Gary B, in 2014 - here is the link: German Medal Bar with Order of Mehdauia.

I am not aware of a list of those who would have earned/qualified for the wound badge for service in Spain. I do know of three: Lt-RKT Walter Fromm (LW-Flak), Lt-RKT Otto Bertram (LW-Pilot), Hptmn-RKT Hermann Hogeback (LW-Pilot). My online searches acknowledge their wound badges earned in Spain, but don't provide specific award dates. Of the 183 badges to be awarded for service in Spain, 182 were in black, and one in silver. No gold badges were earned/awarded. I could be wrong, but Otto Bertram might be the silver winner, as there are period photos of him wearing a first pattern silver wound badge, and my research indicates he did not earn a further wound badge after the start of WWII. But again, no specifics on when his wound badge was presented.

I know this is an old thread, but would anyone interested in the German 1939 first-pattern/Legion Condor wound badge like to help determine when such wound badges were actually awarded to Germans wounded in Spain? If so, please see/comment in the post below . . . Earliest Award of the 1939 Wound Badge? https://gmic.co.uk/topic/81224-earliest-award-of-the-1939-wound-badge/#comment-721903

Question: What is the earliest documented award date of 1939 Wound Badge? The 1939 wound badge (first-pattern, aka ‘Legion Condor’) was instituted on 22 May 1939, and 183 were to be awarded to Germans wounded in the Spanish Civil War. Yet I haven't found a 1939 wound badge document dated from the summer of 1939 when all the Legion Condor award ceremonies took place, nor seen photo evidence of a wound badge being awarded like the Spanish Crosses were. LC veterans were eventually awarded their wound badges for Spanish service, but I am unable to determine exactly when. Full disclosure: I am not a wound badge or document collector, but I am interested in the Legion Condor, and would like to determine if/when 1939 first-pattern/LC wound badges were awarded during the summer of 1939. Any assistance with this would be greatly appreciated.

Esteemed GMIC researchers, I am trying to discern when first-issue 1939 wound badges were awarded to members of the German volunteers who served in the Spanish Civil War, often referred to collectively as ‘Legion Condor’ wound badges. It is well documented that the first-issue 1939 wound badge was instituted on 22 May 1939, and 182 black and 1 silver were to be awarded to combatants wounded in the Spanish Civil War. But when were those wound badges presented? There are dozens of photos from the spring/summer of 1939 showing the mass awarding of Spain Crosses following the war, however I’ve yet to see a Spanish Civil War veteran wearing or being awarded a German wound badge, nor seen a 1939 wound badge award document dated prior to 1 Sep 1939 (yet examples of German Spain Cross citations are well-documented). And with only one silver wound badge to be awarded, I would think that would be a highly publicized event; after all, the huge victory parade in Berlin on 6 June 1939 conspicuously honored those killed in the war, so recognizing those who were wounded shouldn’t have been a sensitive issue. The form below is an example used to record decorations earned by individuals returning from the war. Note the list of possible awards includes the Spanish Medalla Sufrimientos por la Patria (the Spanish wound medal – last on the list), but not the German wound badge. Granted the list of awards is not all inclusive, but if the Spanish wound medal is there, why wouldn't the German wound badge be as well, given the badge was authorized and exact numbers were known? Not enough time to make them, one might ask? I doubt that, given the German Spain Cross was instituted three weeks after the 1939 wound badge, yet a handful of manufacturers managed to craft more than 26,000 of those complicated puzzle pieces in time for the widely publicized mass award ceremonies. So my question is: when specifically were first-issue 1939 German wound badges awarded to Germans who served in the Spanish Civil War, and is there any documentation of it? I.e., definitive photo(s) of an award ceremony, photo of one in wear from the spring/summer of 1939, or a Wound Badge document dated prior to 1 Sep 1939. Have I missed an obvious or glaring bit of evidence? P.S., I posted this in the WAF Wound Badge forum a month ago and it sank like a stone with no replies.

My only contribution: a 16mm, single-sided red merit cross

Here's a picture of Adm Raeder wearing his (on the left side of his tunic).