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He is not in the last ranklist shown, from the end of 1917:

And in July 1917, Baron Charpentier had fallen ill and was commanded to the Ersatz-Eskadron:

This must have been when the Baron got his Carl Eduard medal from the Duke (CM2X 22.10.17):

No pictures of individuals, sadly. Here's the second ranklist from June 1915.

Here's some information from the regimental history of the 9. Husaren. This is their first ranklist when the war started, with Baron Charpentier leading the 2. Feldeskadron:

Absolutely no idea. His assignments during that time give no hint: Company-Chief in the 19th Infantry-Regiment (01 Oct 1920-01 Oct 1928) With the Staff of Command-Office Munich (01 Oct 1928-01 Feb 1931) Commander of III. Battalion of the 21st Infantry-Regiment (01 Feb 1931-01 Oct 1933) With the Staff of the 21st Infantry-Regiment (01 Oct 1933-06 Oct 1935) Commander of the 20th Infantry-Regiment (06 Oct 1935-01 Jan 1939) Commander of Supplemental-Troops XII (01 Jan 1939-01 Sep 1939) Commander of the 263rd Infantry-Division (01 Sep 1939-14 Nov 1940)

Here it is: http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=65419

At least we have the scans.

It seems to have gone to a buyer in Turkey.

The back. Seller was from South Africa.

Has anyone seen this? I would have loved to own it, Turkish ribbon bars are not exactly common. But it went for 763 dollars.

This is him (hard to recognize, I admit) after he got the RK on 5.8.1940 as Generalmajor and commander of the 263. Inf.-Div.:

This is an old case that we discussed once back on WAF, but I have now learnt that it has already been solved by someone else on Axis History Forum. This Bavarian Oberst with a Norwegian St. Olav Commander is the later Generalleutnant Franz Karl (1888-1964) as commander of IR20.

Baron Charpentier sounds quite nice, thanks! Sounds like the right person to have had such a bizarre piece. And bingo, it has a safety pin on the back (which someone decided to stick some adhesive tape to).

I don't think so. Three pre-war awards and nothing during WW1? KO4 and no LS award? And this is most probably not a wartime lapel bow, but rather 1920s. I think the Xs were deliberately left out to not make the EK2 ribbon look like an HHOX or KO4X/RAO4X.

Working on the assumption that these awards are indeed the Carl Eduard medal, SEHOX and WF (probably WF3bX, which I think is more plausible than a PrKO), is there any chance to ID this 25mm lapel bow at this stage?

Nelson is not in the 1940 KM ranklist, so he must have been commissioned after that. Maybe someone with the 1944 ranklist could help. BTW, the name is not that uncommon in German. There was a German philosopher Leonard Nelson, for example.

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And here are more current ebay oddities by our second "old friend" am-militaria:

No, he did not have a PLM, but he had at least: - pre-WW1 Mecklenburg Griffin Order - pre-WW1 Reuss house order on peacetime ribbon - BMVO4X 28.05.1915 - SA3aX 26.05.1915 (as a Hauptmann in FFlAbt 42) - HHOX 3.10.1916 (listed as "Heemkerck", flyer in Turkish service) - an unknown number of Turkish awards

#15: Josias von Plüskow, Lt 1. GzF, Oberlt 22.3.10 V8v, Hptm 5.9.14 Ww, Unteroffizierschule Esslingen, Major aD #17: Weckert, Oberlt 16.6.10 P3p in IR62, Hptm 28.11.14 G14g, KIA 21.8.18 in Sturm-Abteilung 5. Res.-Div. #22: Freiherr v. Perfall, Lt 20.12.05 in IR 97, Hptm 18.9.15 F3f, Major aD

Definitely Hermann.

That's what the Bios series has for him: Born: 28 Aug 1880 in Geestem?nde Died: 28 Aug 1942 in Berlin (Killed in an Air Raid) Promotions: Charakter als F?hnrich (20 Mar 1899); F?hnrich (16 Nov 1899); Leutnant (18 Aug 1900); Oberleutnant (27 Jan 1910); Hauptmann (22 Apr 1914); Charakter als Major (09 Apr 1920); Ministerialdirigent (01 Aug 1937) Career: Entered the Army as a F?hnrich and Company-Officer in the 80th Fusilier-Regiment (20 Mar 1899-24 Jul 1904) Educator at the Cadet-House Potsdam (25 Jul 1904-31 Mar 1907) Educator at the Cadet-House Berlin-Gro?-Lichterfelde (01 Apr 1907-18 Sep 1907) Governor of Princes Heinrich XXXVIII. and Heinrich XLII. Reuss j.L. (19 Sep 1907-31 Mar 1909) Company-Officer in the 4th Foot-Guards-Regiment and Flying-Training (01 Apr 1909-21 Apr 1914) Hauptmann with the Regiments-Staff of the 4th Foot-Guards-Regiment (22 Apr 1914-31 Jul 1914) Officer with Special Duties with the 11th Flying-Battalion (01 Aug 1914-1915) Leader of the 42nd Flying-Battalion (1915-00 Dec 1915) Leader of the 5th Flying-Battalion (00 Dec 1915-00 Jan 1916) Leader of the 300th Field-Flying-Battalion 'Pascha' (00 Jan 1916-00 Oct 1916) Squadron-Leader in the Homeland (00 Oct 1916-00 Jan 1917) General-Staff-Training (00 Jan 1917-00 Jul 1917) Commander Of Flying of Army-Group F (Palestine) (00 Jul 1917-00 Mar 1918) General-Staff-Officer with the Staff of the 3rd Landwehr-Division (00 Mar 1918-1919) Retired (1919) Entered Luftwaffe Service and Detached to the RLM (01 Mar 1936-30 Apr 1936) Department-Chief in the Raw Material and Import Staff, at the same time in the Office for German Raw and Made Materials, RLM (01 May 1936-28 Aug 1942) Killed in an Air Raid in Berlin (28 Aug 1942)

No item, but here's a picture of Lw Ministerialdirigent (equivalent Generalmajor) Hans Eduard von Heemskerck (1880-1942):