JensF.

Last week I received one of those medals (for my collection). Did anyone realise that they have a typo in the english text?

It reads:
... AND LET NOTHLNG BE FORGOTTEN

 

One of very very few modern german awards which is still made with real enamel and in a great quality.

Thank you

This time I took part at the Vierdaagse van de Ijzer on the 4 x 24 km trail. No Tom Jones anymore for the 4 x 32 km medal and the one I received is the six-pointed silver one. I took part at the Last Post in Ypres and some other events too. It was an awesome week in Belgium!!

And finally something I was searching for more than 15 years. This is Guillaume Defauwe. I was speechless as I saw him for the first time. He looks so young.

After so many years the medals are back:

The museum inside the fort:

The monument a the fort's entrance. His name can be found on the second panel from viewers right.

Gentlemen, this post is a looooong time ago, but here an update. Last week I drove to Flanders to take part at the four-day-march of the Yser around Ypres and I visited Fort Barchon for the first time. I had Defauwe's medals in the trunk of my car. I decided to bring them home and donate them to the small museum of the fort. They belong to this place, where he fought and was killed in 1940 and I must say, this decision was very easy.

Some photos will follow soon.

Here the 2014 design of the 4 x 32 km medal. No Tom Jones anymore.
I will take part this year. Maybe they changed the design for the 4 x 24 km medal too.

Unbelieveable...!

Ok, thank you.

Ok, thank you. So what do you think? Authentic medal-bar or a "put together" one?

And more

It has arrived and here are more photos:

How to improve your chances...

Thanks again. I will post better photos, maybe this will help a little bit.

Ok, thank you. Now I know what you mean. If the medal bar is authentic, could it be some kind of older reserve guy or something like that?

Thank you Nick. Why not very realistic? Only due to the missing Sacred Treasure? I will take better photos when it has arrived.

...maybe included in a little display

1943 Savage Arms made M1A1 (deactivated according to current german weapons law).

Hi gents, any opinions on this medal bar I've recently bought?

Speaking about the Blücher-Orden. This is the collection of them in the Militärhistorisches Museum der Bundeswehr in Dresden. I think they took the complete safe out of the basement of the PräWeMa und took it there. There are hundreds of all classes of the Blücher-Orden and Blücher-Medaille inside.

I got an answer from the seller. Only some numbers are visible on the GSM, nothing else. I think I will not buy it. Thanks to everyone who tried to help.

Ok, I've asked the seller and he said, its almost impossible to read the engraving on the General Service Medal. The others aren't engraved.

Thank you.