Valter

Very beautfiul set of photos, Dante!!! And the wehrpass is also neat - this guy was born in Kikinda, now Vojvodina (part of Serbia), and his country of birth is stated S.H.S. (Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians), what is a bit erroneus, as he was born in then (1887) Hungary (part of AH), but at the time of Wehrpass issue the country was called Kingdom of Yugoslavia (since 1929). By his name, he was probably of Rumanian nationality. It is intersting that he got wound badge in 1940 - quite uncommon that such an old man (53 then) was on frontline service so early in the war.

Wow, I've never seen that one before either! Can you post the averse too? As far as i know, these security medals are NOT federal Yugoslav, but Croatian (Socialist republic of Croatia).

Inscription on averse says: Proletarians of all countries, unite." and on reverse: "To the participant of great october revolution at 50th anniversary, 1917-1967"

There's one more decoration for yugoslav participants in October revolution. The plaque was awarded in 1967 (50 years) to all surviving veterans of October revolution. It came in 4 language variants - serbian, croat, slovenian and macedonian, mine is Croatian. The most rare is probably macedonian. Quite a scarce thing, I got this in early 90's but never seen one for sale again.

Thanks, numisobol for translation! "koleki" is also slovenian word for taksena marka. ;)

Any opinions about the third bar? Is it good or no? If not, I can return it, but I have to konw for sure ...:anmatcat:

and the other side... Thank you very much for your help! Valter

Sorry for bothering again, but what do you think about this Braunschweig spange? EK2 is marked with M, EA cross unmarked.

Very nice set, Drew! For the pins, see my post #11...

Karnet, as far as I know there's no badge for Geodetical school. It was not called topographic, but geodetic, and the service was called geodetic profession (but their main task was topography/cartography). That school existed from 146-1958 (not sure), then it was merged with ground forces academy, which students divided in 3rd year to different branches of services/specialities, and one of these was also geodetical. The school badges I showed above were introduced around 1969, before that there were no badges like that. But from 70's there were many small pins, introduced also on anniversaries of different schools and institutes, and there could be also pin of geodetical school and/or military geographic institute. And one small correction of my mistake : On 2nd pic, 2nd row, 3rd badge from left - it's not ground forces technical NCO school, but general ground forces NCO school (for NCOs of infantry, artillery, armor etc.)

Dolfek, yes, there are mini pins for evry academy/NCO/high schools. There's some disputes for the puropse of these pins: some refer them as pins for civil dress, some other references state these pjns were given by schools as a gift to visitors etc. There are several variations of these pins - enammeled, partly enammled, without enammel, different bae metals etc. Goprdon, I'm glad if I can help with reference. When you find your badges, please post them!

This badge is often misinterpreted as air force transport crew badge and so on... Actually, it's a badge for instructors in air force (car, truck) driver's school.

Outside of case... on previous pic, there's a mini lapel pin in the case. If you have any other badges, please post!

Air force technical NCO school badge in case. The cases for NCO schools are quite scarce.

Cased plaque for higher air force technical academy, with plate with professor's name; in this case, the professor is civilian, as he doesn't have rank.

Badge for distinguished teachers in pre-military training with box.

Badge for distinguished teachers in pre-military training with box.

1st row: supply academy; ground forces technical academy; ground forces academy (new type); ground forces academy (old type with lapel pin for civil dress) 2nd row: ground forces political academy; military high school Franc Rozman Stane, Ljubljana; ground forces tehcnical NCO school; ground forces technical school for civilian specialist workers. 3rd row: two types of badges for air force high school Maršal Tito; medical NCO school; air force technical NCO school.

I'd like to show some badges of Yugolasv military schools. Every officer or NCO who graduated got one and was supposed to wear it on right breast pocket, but they usually wore them only in first years after graduation. In general, rounded badges are for highest schools, eight-pointed (two squares) for academies for officers, triangular for NCo schools and shields for military high schools (these were schools for preparation for academies). Older type badges were without star and newer type with red star. Ground forces badges were red, navy dark blue and air force light blue. 1st row, from left to right: Command staff school of operatics, ground forces; Command staff school of operatics, navy; War school (the highest military school in Yugoslavia); School of national defence. 2nd row: higher air force technical academy; higher ground forces technical academy; command-staff academy of ground forces; military medical academy. 3rd row: navy academy; air force reserve officers technical academy; air forces technical academy; yubilee badge for 30 years of air force technical academy.

Maybe I wasn't precise enough - I didn't mean rear duty in deep homeland, but some duty in near rear just behind the front, like supply, railroad, medic. It's strange why he doesn't have any bravery medal - at least small silver was more common than bravery signum laudis. If "wound" medal is without stripes, it is for ilness, not wound. And EK2 was common German decoration for foreign officers, not only front fighters. But most strange for me is absence of bravery medal.

Yes, this looks like logo of TeNo; it's not "notruf", but "Nothilfe".

Sascha, Kevin, thank you very much for your opinions!:beer:

Signum laudis was only for officers, as Sascha said. He was probably on some rear duty, as he didn't get any bravery decoration, which was common for front-line officers. Karl Truppenkreuz could be awarded only for the presence in the theater of battle.

These are stamps from Independent state of Croatia (Nezavisna država Hrvatska) which existed as kinda puppet staste in 1941-45. In NDH, AH decorations were allowed to be worn (they were not allowed in Kingdom of Yugoslavia) and the awardees could get some privileges, including monetary. For this purpose, the old AH decorations should be "registered" by the authorities, hence the official stamps. These stamps are called "koleki" (I don't know english translation, sorry) and they are proof that you paid administrative or judiciary fees for application.