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Yep, one of these messages was from me

I also think he got the bulgarian cross as F?hnrich or Fahnenjuncker and later he got the Meiningen cross as Leutnant. The seller told me that he was a doctor from Breslau. I am not sure about this without any Red Cross Medals etc.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!

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The pin is missing but with a nice makers label.

A really beautiful medal-bar (Frackspange) with the "Kreuz f?r Auszeichnung im Kriege" from Sachsen-Meiningen and the Silver Merit Cross of the Military Merit Order of Bulgaria:

Here is one from me:

I know what you mean, Gordon. Sometimes it is a little bit chaotic, but I wouldn't go into a mission with any other guys. It is a lot of fun and the craziest thing is, as I saw it many times in Kosovo, they do their job much better than many other nations.

Thanks. But how about the medal-bars with a WMC and FA-medals etc. you see sometimes?

Sachsen was also one of only two countries (also Bavaria) were an NCO/enlisted soldier could get the most military awards.

Golden Military St. Henry Medal

Silver Military St. Henry Medal

Albert Cross with swords

Honor Cross with Swords

Silver Friedrich August Medal

Bronze Friedrich August Medal

War Merit Cross

Did I forget something?

In all other countries only the officers could get a "full chest". Did I forget something?

In 1923 for example a bread cost around 2000000000 Reichsmark. They even stamped new values on stamps for letters because their price changed sometimes two times a day, gaining some more zeros! Somewere I have a 300 and 500 Reichsmark coin from 1923. Someone said, it was the time when everyone was a billionaire. Really crazy times then...

A little correction, it is the Marine or Bundesmarine. No Kriegsmarine anymore, you sunk our proud Bismarck... The good side is that a conscript army produces much more reservists than a regular army and you have the so called "Staatsb?rger in Uniform" (= citizen in uniform), which means that the most male citizens have served in the army and so the army is much more spread around, especially in the mind, if you know what I mean. It is more accepted instead a regular army. It is also cheaper in my opinion. At the moment you have to serve for 9 months including 8 weeks of basic training (or are we down to 6 weeks?). Conscript soldiers can't be send to foreign missions, except they fill out a form and serve longer, for example 12 or 16 months. Otherwise the time is too short for the special mission training of minimum three weeks and the mission of 4 months. However since we are not an army "to fight", there is no "red threat" anymore, the biggest part of our work is to take part in foreign missions like KFOR, EUFOR and ISAF and to help during catastrophies. For example I served 9 months in the Luftwaffe from 1996 to 1997, became a reservist later and now I am a Sergeant First Class (Oberfeldwebel). Last year I was in Kosovo with KFOR for 6 months (now they changed to only 4 months) and there are thousands of former conscript soldiers who do it this way.

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Here is my "Ehrenkreuz mit Schwertern". A really beautiful and very well made award! Sorry for the bad picture, it was made with my old crap scanner...

I think this is an impossible combination.

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From the navy this is my only one.

Back.

Here is my black Navy badge which should be original. Maybe it helps to give you some tips how it should look like. This one is made from iron.

Horridoo Kamerad! Finally you are here How about posting a pic of your fruit salad?

Great!!!

Do you think it is a fake?

Claudio, that Red Eagle is a dream!!!

Welcome onboard Daniel!

Here is a nice Defense of Moscow group. Maybe this is something to research. Orders of Glory were not given "just for fun".

The name of the village is Malancourt. It is northwest of Cote 304. On march 20 1916 a large attack of bavarian units took place in that area (including 3. InfReg from Augsburg and other units). In the back of that area they had many medical camps etc.

>Black Wound Badge for wound received 22 March 1916 = at (H?)alancourt per the document-- this was >during the Verdun slaughter. Moved from the Argonne in March 1916, by May the division had lost 68 >percent of its infantry.

WOW!!! So he got a non-comb. EKII in WW1 and another EKII in WW2. THAT is rare!!! I think 99,99 % of all non-comb. EKII 1914 recipients were awarded a KVK in WW2 because they usually had their non-combatant "job" in both wars.

Not sure if this should go here .If the bird DID come with the cross how rare would it be?

don