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The certificate for the Hamburg Hanseatic Cross.

I wanted to get at least one group of medals with lots of paperwork and this is what I ended up with. Sadly I don't know German and so can't figure out the details about this man and his wife other than the very obvious. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

1. 1939-45 Star

2. Africa Star

3. War Medal

4. TEM - GVI Territorial 1st type - Sgt. R. Hutchinson D.L.I.)

with cap badge.

With photocopies of the PoW rolls showing that he was taken prisoner as a Sgt. in the D.L.I. and had the POW no. 223062; he was held at Campo 66 at Capua, Italy, and later at Stalag 357 at Oerbke near Fallingbostel. Camp 66 was a transit camp about 30Km north of Naples.

His number suggests service with the 9th Bn. D.L.I., which fought with 151st Brigade at Matruh in June 1942 and suffered heavy losses in the face of a strong German attack, much of the battalion being surrounded and taken prisoner. This was a VC action too for a man in the 9th.

The 9th D.L.I. was based at Gateshead.

A bar with a couple of Romanian medals.

One of my favorites.

Panzerschiff Deautschland group

A nice DAK bar with two Italian medals.

Naval group for Romania and the Spanish Civil War.

With a ribbon bar a set of minis and a tailor tag also.

Here's an interesting one to a man who served overseas or at least supported the overseas campaigns from the Fatherland.

1st style spange.

Not as long as some, but the longest in the collection and to a non-combatant as well!

China

Venezuela

Herero-land

I'm adding this because it's such a nice bar.

Wilke

Over the weekend I looked through many sites and came across one; I scooped it up. These are very nice and I'm going to be on the lookout for them from now on. : )

Great collection! A collector after my own heart!

Obverse and reverse of a Franco-Prussian War pair.

The last medal on the bar is a Bavarian Veteran's medal from around 1880 (on the back is named the hometown of the man), this medal combined with the Wörth Spange tells me that the crown indicates that this 1870/71 bavarian veteran was a member of the Königlich Bayerisches Infanterie-Leib-Regiment. The crown is the insignia of this Regiment and it fought in the battle at Wörth on August 6, 1870.

Thank you! Here's what I've been able to find out in a few stroke because of your expertise:

The I Royal Bavarian Corps (along with the participated in the Franco-Prussian War as part of the 3rd Army.

It initially fought in the battles of Worth, Beaumont and the Bazeilles, where it lost about 7.000 men, it also fought at the decisive battle of Sedan. After Sedan, the Corps was responsible for the removal of prisoners and ensuring transport of the booty. Thereafter, it moved south of Paris to the Loire, to shield the army during the Siege of Paris. From October to late December 1870, the Corps was on service without interruption, particularly from the beginning of November in the battles of Villepion, Loigny, Orleans and Beaugency, normally against the numerically superior French. The losses in December alone amounted to 5,600 men.

I don't know, but would like to know what the bows (#25), the crown (#23) and the star device (#31) on the ribbons means. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance!

Top and inside of boxed Hamburg.

A pair with a tailor's tag.

Another bar with medals from three states.