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帝國軍人後援会 - imperial soldier support association 賛助徽章 - supporting member badge First type badge. Best, Nick

Looks like original "thin dove" variation.

Unfortunately it`s barely readable to me. This part reads 岐阜県 - Gifu Prefecture

This is regular member badge from the imperial sericulture association. Best, Nick

Regarding "Die chinesische Polizei" in Jiaozhou http://www.traditionsverband.de/magazin/polizeiuniform.html

This one looks perfectly ok to me unlike "tally" in the first post. You've got to be kidding me

If he was under German command then why tally is in chinese? And this handwriting is simply terrible ... Me and my friend from SMS Gneisenau are having doubts.

I hope it will help you http://www.vedomstva-uniforma.ru/mundir4/art/index1.html

Looks pretty terrible for a cap tally. Even for a modern one. Meinst du nicht Chris? 徳國水兵膠州 徳國 - German 水兵 - Sailor 膠州 - Jiaozhou https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiaozhou_Bay

List of 2nd class St. George order cavaliers https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Кавалеры_ордена_Святого_Георгия_II_класса

St.George regimental standard.

See also and for quick identification

Life Guards Uhlan Regiment of His Majesty https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Уланский_Его_Величества_лейб-гвардии_полк Inscription reads Remember whose name you carry

Obverse Merit badge reverse Osaka Seinen-dan/Young Men's Corps (a.k.a. Youth League) https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/青年団 1934 This badge was made in pure silver by Shobido workshop in Osaka.

Nice cased specimen. It looks like once it was in a medal bar.

陸軍看護手 - army nurse 鴨下藤吉 - Tokichi Kamoshita 任陸軍三等看護長 - army 3rd class chief nurse №2 issued to the same person only 殿 - Mr. added after the name №1 issued to the 鴨下文吾 - Bungo Kamoshita. Looks like some educational award.

祭文 - address to the gods [originally - type of song which spread from mountain hermits to the laity during the Kamakura era] See https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/祭文 Dated April 13, 1906

貯金通帳 - Livret épargne 卒業證書 - Graduation certificate 鴨下藤吉 - Tokichi Kamoshita 高等小學校教科ヲ卒業 - graduated from a high school March 31, 1897

P.S. Basic info about 奏任官 / sōninkan https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/奏任官

The back of the photo reads November 3, 1899 天長節撮影 - photographed at Emperor's Birthday 従六位 - Junior Sixth Court Rank 勲六等 - 6th class [order of] merit (so now we know that he is wearing 6th class sacred treasure order) 伊谷脩 - Itani Osamu Best, Nick

He is wearing court uniform for civil official. There were three highest subcategories of civil officials. Imperial appointees / 勅任官 / chokuninkan Non-Imperially appointed senior officials / 奏任官 / sōninkan Junior officials / 判任官 / hanninkan He is Sōninkan. Original line drawings for Sōninkan uniform. This is how it looks en personne.

阪(?)井 - Sakai + 鴨緑江 - Yalu river https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yalu_River 軍工兵大隊 - army engineer battalion 征露記念 - in commemoration of conquest of Russia

新井 - Arai 野施兵 - field artillery 第十八聯隊 - 18th Regiment 谷川 - Tanigawa 満期記念 - in commemoration of discharge

海軍滿期記念 - in commemoration of full-term service (completion) in the Navy 池田 - Ikeda 退営記念 - in commemoration of demobilization 歩兵第九聯隊 - 9th Infantry Regiment 寺本 - Teramoto

Well, I don`t currently have the first edition of his book, so I can`t look it up. But what I know is that first two volume set was published back in 2010 in Izhevsk. And indeed at page 156 there was a part devoted to the K.A.G. crosses (described simply as "K.A.G. marking"). Now if my memory serves me right the very first time he mentioned Franz Kühmayer as a possible owner of the K.A.G. mark was at the Feldgrau forum back in 2012 https://www.feldgrau-forum.com/threads/ek2-1914-hersteller-k-a-g-800.28885/ Back then he wrote: Falls mir gelingen wird, die volle Variante meines Buches «Das Eiserne Kreuz 1.Klasse der Version 1914» zu verlegen, so werde ich dort die bestätigenden Dokumente aufzeigen He managed to publish the new four volume edition only in 2014. And as I wrote earlier there K.A.G. mentioned as an unknown manufacturer. Hope this clarifies the matter.