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This picture is very funny and very interesting!

usually the EK was awarded to guys who were wounded badly enough to be invalided out of the service as opposed to a "regular" wound.

When you find a wound EK in a group you can usually see in the Militärpass that they are no longer be returning to the front .

Hello,

I researched the history of a soldier who got the EK2 obviously for being wounded (in the Verdun area as well), but he was able to return to active duty again after a few months. (This was in 1917, before the wound badge was introduced)

I checked FAR 45 and didn't see the name Harrisson there eithere (only the Kriegsranglisten of 1914 and 1918 are in the book though).

No Harrisson among the officers and higher NCOs of FAR 9 (I checked the regimental history).

I'd say 74, but because of the beard perhaps LandwehrIR 74 or some officer from any of the Ersatz-Bataillons IR 74, RIR 74, ...?

I don't have any of the regimental histories. According to my knowledge, there isn't a history for the RIR 88 anyway.

Both units were in the 21st Reserve Division at the time, fighting around Neufchâteau.

Did you check the Reichsarchiv book? There are some nice overview maps in there for that period which may give more information, depending on what you're exactly looking for.

A liberation of Helsinki commemoration medal (1918-1938) with award document and a 1938 commemoration armband.

Another armband, this one from a Jäger artillery battery.

An armband of the Finnish army from 1918 of the I. Battalion Heavy Artillery.

Pic 3.

Unfortunately the threading of the SMS Rheinland Mützenband has faded a bit.

Pic 2

These are my medals related to Finland 1918. I collect a bit of everything (medals, pics, docs, ...) relating to Finland 1918.

Hello,

Unfortunately the Kriegsrangliste of Jasta 78b apparently isn't there any more.

Staffelführer were Leutnant dR Robert Dycke (8 Dec 1917 - 30 Jul 1918), Oblt. Reinhold Ritter von Benz (30 Jul - 13 Aug 1918), Lt Gerhard Ungewitter( 13 Aug -14 Sep 1918), Lt Hans Jungwirth (14 Sep - 9 Oct 1918) and Oblt Ludwig Schmid (9 Oct - 11 Nov 1918).

Pilots credited with victories: Offizier-Stellvertreter Eduard Prime (3), Vfw Karl Kallmünzer (2), Oblt von Benz (1), Lt Jungwirth (1), Lt Lidl (1), Vfw Ludwig Reimann (1(2)), Lt Richard Schmidt (1) and Lt Ungewitter (1).

Lt Friedrich Poesch was killed in a crash on 17 Feb 1918.

(Source: The Jasta Pilots and Die Königlich Bayerische Fliegertruppe 1914-1918)

I should check the Kriegsstammrollen on ancestry, there are 12 NCO pilots listed in the Kriegsstammrollen.

According to what I read if I check his Kriegsstammrollen, he must indeed have received the EK2 for being wounded. This was not uncommon (you know that the wound badge didn't exist yet at that point).

I have researched once a machine gunner who also received an EK2 for being wounded.

I din't find Johann Schmitt immediately in the Kriegstammrollen of 9/BIR 30... He may have had another official first name perhaps (or I didn't look carefully enough).

Well 400 E for a copy is still alot of money for a copy IMO . Since no one except Finnish citizens ever was awarded a Mannerheim Cross there couldnt be any real demand for a MH cross in Germany except for collectors.

Christer

Exactly what I thought as well.

I'd say Versuchs- und Übungsflugpark as well. The FlP may sometimes seem a bit weird if one sees it in reality. I don't know of any other possibility.

The text says Wetzel and Oberstl. (so Oberstleutnant) Winkler.

Of course it is a copy on eBay. The front looks okay but definitely not worth too much though, IMO.

According to what I heard, the real ones are indeed not allowed to leave Finland...

Where did you find this info? I find it very strange for a German who had nothing to do with Finland to receive this medal. BTW it isn't a neck order either... But that is probably a personal adaptation?

When is the pic of Martin Otto taken?

I don't see why he would have received the VR1 in 1918, so it must be in WW2? But I can only find that he commanded training units 1939-1941 and was inactive from 1942 on...

Apparently the balloons or kites were put up in a circle around the area that was to be defended (usually industrial areas). They were not that effective though.

Luftsperr-Abteilung 1: Saargebiet

Luftsperr-Abteilung 2: bei Esch

Luftsperr-Abteilung 3: bei Kneuttingen

Luftsperr-Abteilung 4: bei Rombach

Luftsperr-Abteilung 5: bei Leverkusen

Luftsperr-Abteilung 6, 7 and 8: Saargebiet

Luftsperr-Abteilung 9: bei Worringen

Luftsperr-Abteilungen had unmanned balloons that could be up 2500 metres and had thin wires hanging from them. Because of this, bombing units had to fly around of these or over them, which made precise bombing during the night more difficult.

There were 9 Luftsperr-Abteilungen in the border area and 1 in the 5th Army area.

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I've quickly checked the regimental histories of IR 31 and RIR 31. In IR 31 he is mentioned as company commander of 10/IR 31 but mysteriously disappears from the lists late 1914. In the description about the beginning of they war, they mention that Hptm. von Wegerer was transferred to RIR 31 at the outbreak of the war. I couldn't find him immediately in the regimental history of RIR 31 though.