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http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=22684

And isn't that a coincidence?

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:

Ah-thank you!

Now, what did he do to get that medal do you suppose? the picture i have dates from @ late 1938... as it's part of a series of the rgts' officers and some are wearing the Anschluss medal.

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