I think it might be this one.   The one under Croatian legion badge. 

Thank you Peter.  At least now I know I am not missing much. I have more than enough experience with old military letters and photos and I know about censorship but whenever I get some new photos I always wonder what secrets might I encounter. When they get translated, usually they are thanking each other for letters they receive and they inform each other about letters they will send.  No epiphanies. 

I scanned photos.  Here they are.  That is all with captions on their back.   



I tried to upload more but it seems that I can upload only 8 MB.   

2 hours ago, Sampo said:

Hello,

I will give it a try. The first picture is an old style handwriting, and it is too difficult for me, but perhaps someone else can.

The second one reads: Walancourt forrest 19/3/18, (Unreadable, maybe rank or position) Henrique Edelmann (unknown to me)

The third one: Day 7-14,  P.S.P. Edelmann, corporal-chef (Sorel??) reinforcements (Unknown word to me, maybe region) of Bathincourt

Hope this helps a bit, or give some else a good starting piont to help you out.

Cheers

Sampo

Thank you very much. You really helped me a lot.  

Maybe Bathincourt is Bethencourt -sur-Somme and Walancourt is Mallancourt near Meuse. 

I am not familiar with French language at all. Therefore, I am asking for help with some photos I have.   I would be very grateful for your help. I´ve bought recently big lot of ww1 photos(cca 100+) and some of them have writings on their back. I will scan them in upcoming days, 2-3 per day and post them here.   I hope you will enjoy the photos.  

First photo is not part of that lot bu I am also interested in writing on the back.  

Thank you in advance. 

Maximilians Military merit medal if I am not mistaken.

Very nice medal bar.

I have a question about Mine Rescue Medal. Was it awarded as other rescue medals, for particular lifesaving action or for being part of some rescue organization?

I´ve bought this Sanitätstasche  recently. Inside the bag I´ve found name of the owner and Feldpost number.  Owner is Dr. Frimmel and Feldpost number is 42595.

Sanitätstasche  was produced in 1943 and I have found that 42595 was Feldpost number of 2. Sanitats-Kompanie 44. (12.3.1943-7.9.1943). 

This is where my knowledge stops.  Is it possible to find out more about Dr. Frimmel using available info?

I bought it in Croatia. I think it was never in collection before. I need to ask the seller additional info about it.  Searching through WH Lexikon didn´t help or I am doing something wrong. I presumed that he was stationed  somewhere in ex-Yugoslavia but all the units I found that had this 2. Sanitats-Kompanie 44 attached were not in this area.

Can you help me with this one. I am negotiating the price of some KuK stuff with an older man here in Croatia and he offered me this helmet also. I am not familiar with German stuff so I am asking for help here. I tried to find some info about it and Pickelhauben and I found that plate is for IR 91 helmet but the rest is not corresponding with the photos I found on web.

He also offered me this cartouche and gorget. I need your help with them also. I need to ask for better photos definitely.

Thank you in advance.
 

It is Kingdom Yugoslavia Gendarmerie cockade.

What do you think about plaque? There was one for sale, similar to this one, but it was awarded to Rudolf Singule. Sold for 1850 GBP.  

Have you seen anything similar? Did plaques ever existed or they are modern fantasies?

Material looks too shiny and box also looks new. At least skin does.  

It is not possible to download photos so I am posting a link to Rudolf Singule plaque.  It definitely looks better than Weddigen´s.

I am not sure is it forbidden to post links. If it is, please delete it or I will do it. 

https://www.relicmilitaria.com/product/imperial-german-submarine-officers-presentaion-plaque-dated-1915-in-case/#

Hello Bayern. Thank you for your help.  Photo is part of the photo lot I got from Czech republic. So, I presume they are not Heimwehr.

 Except MG and Bergfuhrer insignia I have never seen anything else worn on the sleeve. It looks like an anchor plus something else.  Anybody saw something similar?

1 hour ago, tifes said:

Well, it´s very much true what was stated by Sajkaca about Serbian noble family of Vojnovich/Woinowitch however, it doesn’t seem likely that Emil Woinowitsch von Belobreska has anything to do with this noble house. House of Woinowitch could be tracked back to late 16 century and was active in 18^th and 19^th century with members of the family living up to mid-20^th century. There is no record of any kuk general named Emil Woinowich or Vojnovich in the Vojnovich pedigree, which is well documented. Nobility titles of the Voinovich family had been recognised in Republic of Venice and by Russian Imperial Court, but it´s doubtful whether Austrian Empire or Austria-Hungary ever recognised the noble status of this family.

Emil Woinowich was born in Dalmatia in the town of Petrinja and his father was military engineer. Family originated from small town of Belobreska, nowadays in Rumania on border with Serbia. His family was of common origin. He was raised to the Hungarian nobility just in 1905 as Feldmarschalleutnant with the predicate “belobreskai” (de/von Belobreska....

This is not correct information. Vojnovic surname can be found in Dalmatia in small town Omis and all of them are Croats. In town Petrinja and Glina we can find Vojnovic surname too, but they are Serbs and Petrinja and Glina are in Banija, which is continental part of Croatia. Dalmatia is coastal part of Croatia.

1 minute ago, Chris Boonzaier said:

Hi,

He was cited at Army level.

Best

Chris

Thank you Chris.  One more question. Does it mean that all members of the unit then get the cross or only guys who already got cross now also get palm on the ribbon. 

That is Cross for Military Valour?  What does it means whet it has palm on the ribbon?

7 hours ago, Bayern said:

hello von Thronstal . My pleasure. the centre of the badge was enamelled in red for active men and in blue for those in school

This is definitely new for me. Thank you once again.

2 hours ago, Kallarati Heroik said:

Barry is not a specialist.

He made a lot of mistakes with titles of Albanian awards.

He doesn't know them as he thought.

He wrote hero of the people when it is remembrance medal.

Not all emedals items are correct.

There are many many mistakes.

Regards 

I know that very well but I am grasping at straws.  I thought it is Spanish at first but  I couldn´t find any information about this badge  nor about its maker.  It is not in the Prichard´s  Submarine badges  book and I can´t find it on the internet either. Badges are similar but not the same. 

 

5 hours ago, Bayern said:

The Regia Marina badge for submarinists was different. It consisted in the figure of a dolphin into a circle surmoouted with the royal crown.

The badge is Spanish ,from before 1931. it lacks of the stone on thecentral circle. I said 1931because of the royal crown eliminated after 1931 . the nationalists forces during the Civil War restaurated the crown but not the royal . they used a open marquisal crown and this lasted until 1975 .

I know how it looks like. That is why I said I haven´t seen this type of Italian badge before.

So, I was right.  Now I need to find out how did it end up here? Thank you Bayern.

Emedals has this badge listed as Italian Kingdom sub badge, 1942.     I have never seen it before. 

This is one I have. I found it on one of the beaches in my town. We were searching there a lot cause that is the place where they threw all the rubble after bombardment in ww2. Name of the city is Zadar(Zara) and it was under Italian rule until 1943.  We found lot of  Italian insignia there but this one was unusual.  At first I thought it was Spanish. Maybe sailors went in Spain on some Submarine training i thought. But now, when I found this badge on Emedals it seems it is Italian. If that badge is Italian at all.  

Only difference is that mine is made of silver and it has that hole for a stone, like Spanish sub badges have. 

What do you think. Are these badges Italian at all? Maybe Barry made a mistake while listing that badge or I am completely wrong going into spanish direction.

On 14/09/2018 at 10:07, Alex K said:

Hi wow! thanks for the speedy and in-depth reply, a very distinguished career it seems,  also explains the Turkish decoration he's wearing around his neck. It looks like he's also wearing the Swedish order of the Sword (Last medal on the medal bar), any involvement there in his career?

 

best regards

 

Alex K

I think there is more turkish medals on his right pocket.

13 minutes ago, Gordon Craig said:

von Thronstahl,

The uniform appears to be for a diplomat.  Medals from a number of different countries would tend to support this fact.

Regards,

Gordon

 

Exactly what I thought but I needed somebody to back that .  Thank you.

These are Kingdom Yugoslavia sailor and soldier(officer???). Cap tally says "Torpiljarka T6" which means "Torpedo boat T6". Torpedo boat T6 is ex Austro-hungarian Tb 93F. It even served in Italian navy during ww2 but crew sank it after capitulation 1943.


  If you are not interested in this photo I would gladly buy it or trade something cause I am collecting Kingdom Yugoslavia navy photos. 

30 minutes ago, Gordon Craig said:

You could be correct.  The army uniform certainly looks Serbian and so does the naval one.  Here is a picture of Serbian sailors of the River Flotilla on the monitor Bodrog.  Unfortunately, this is the best uniform picture that I can find.  I am unable to translate the cap tally for you.

Regards,

Gordon

 

This is photo of SMS Bodrog and Austro-Hungarian sailors. SMS Bodrog later became Yugoslav monitor Sava.

 I´ve bought this photo recently. I am not familiar with French uniforms, nor medals. Is this army uniform or uniform of a government official? Considering the medals he is more of a scientist than soldier.  I would be very grateful if you guys can help me with medals too. I hope I guessed them all but there is a big possibility I didn´t.

1. France; Order of Academic palms - Knight

2. Norway: Order of St. Olaf, Knight ????

3. France; Possibly Order of Agriciltural merit ( ribbon is not the same) ???

4. Imperial Order of the Dragon of Annam  Knight

5. Tunisia: Order of Glory (Nishan al-Iftikhar), Officer

6. Montenegro; The Order of Danilo I , Officer

Thank you once again.

39 minutes ago, JapanX said:

This army officer (most likely captain) is wearing order of the rising sun 5th or 6th class.

Could be a graduate from german/austrian military school.

Another possibility  - assistant military attache.

Thank you for your help Japanx.  Do you maybe know what is the last medal?  German?