Humberto Corado

Thank you so much Uwe for your help!

As far as I know he was not dismissed for other reason than the US saw Germany as an upcoming enemy, the military goberment in my country at that time was an admirer of the German Army and because our proximity to the USA that was not sight well and one assumes that they pressed for a change.

Cordial greetings,

Humberto

Hi Humberto,

I think, that he had not been reactivated after 1940 in the German Army.

I read in this document, that he had been fired 1940?:

http://books.google....tedt%22&f=false

As an addition, it could be good for you, not only to search for Eberhardt, but for Eberhard, see the inscription:

http://www.ww2graves...nstedt-eberhard

Uwe

Vary nice pictures Kev, thank you for sharing!!!!

Thanks for the comment, please remember that its closed on Mondays though.

Like most Romanian Museums.

Kevin in Deva.

hello all,

I am wondering if anyone could have any more info about the Char.Generalmajor Eberhardt Bohnstedt? he was the military school director of my country ( El Salvador) during 1939-1940, after that position he departed to Germany.

I found info in the ABR website but only until 1935 so I am wondering if he was recalled to service during WWII

Thanks in advance,

Humberto

Hello Gentlemen,long time ago.I think it was in 2003 Spink had this wonderfull set of Order of Jose Delgado with diamonds.

Just for eyes pleasure.

Emmanuel

Very nice piece Emmanuel, the highest award of my country!

thanks for sharing!

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that's new (to me). How long have those been awarded? Who makes them? Do they come with a certificate? Are they for combat wounds only?

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hello Jeff,

I know that your question was posted long time ago but here are the document for the israeli Badge for the disabled, I take the pictures from this website www.israelidecorations.net , so far de most complete info about Israel awards that I know.

hello all,

I would like to know if there was any General who fought in a battle ( or several battles) directly against troops under Napoleon direct command and remained undefeated, besides Wellington??

thanks in advance

Humberto

thanks again Uwe!! I hope to find one soon!

Hi Humberto,

As far as I know the presentation of the document in a folder form depended not of the rank of the recipient.

The documents signatures ( Honecker, Stoph, etc) I only found in printed form.

Uwe

thank you very much Kevin & Uwe for this nice scans!

I am wondering if you could help me with few questions:

the presentation form of the document (in a single certificate form or booklet form) depended of the rank of the recipient ? and if the documents signatures ( Honecker, Stoph, etc) can only be found in printed form or handwritten too?

thanks again,

Hello all,

the followings are from my country ( El Salvador ) armed forces:

#1 military police insignia for officers

#2 artillery advanced course badge

#8 rank stars for liutenant colonel ( they came in two sizes, this would be the smaller)

#9 war material insignia for officers

# 16 El Salvador cockade

#36 graduated of the course of arms & services for officers badge

# 38 rank insignia for liutenant

I hope this helps,

PS: exactly when meyer run out of bussines?? our army still received meyer insignia during the war against the communist guerrilla in the 80s, I have rank insignia of meyer that my father weared when he was promoted to colonel in 1989. I have rank insignia from that time marked as from the company newtel too. I just can think in two posibilities, one that our army had stocks of insignia from meyer or the US goverment had as they sent us a lot of military suply of every kind during the war.

Humberto

hello all,

I think that here is the right forum to ask this, if not please excuse me.

I am wondering if any of you could have a Banner of Labor document image that can post? I have never seen one and how hard is to get one of this?

Thanks in advance!

Humberto

I know, I know, its very late to give my congratulations but any way ,

Congratulations Christian!!!!!!! a very nice medal and certificate!!!!!!

Nope-not an election medal despite what it says on the front.

This little silver medal is actually a campaign medal, awarded to the Guatemalan soldiers-probably all of 5,000 or so of them, who repulsed the El Salvadoran invasion of 1906. Reading contemporary Guatemalan accounts, this campaign rivaled the Trojan War for epic heroism. The reality was much more squalid...a foreign attempt to reinstate a rapacious Caudillo/Presidente.

Still, it's a rare and nice little piece and represents one of the few Guatemalan combat awards not given for massacring Mayan Indians-armed or otherwise, or for staging a coup.

Now if I could just find a ribbon.....

hello Jeff,

you have a very nice medal!! I have never seen this one before, thanks for sharing the image with us.

the causes of the war were more than an attemtp to reinstate another dictator. several Guatemalan generals that were in exile wanted to overthrow the dictator of that time in Guatemala, with the support of Mexico and other Central American republics, on of them the former president of El Salvador and by the time of the war, minister of war, General Tomas Regalado. he dreamed to revive the old United States of Central America under his lidership.

it was more an attempt to obtain the union of the central american republics by the force, as said before, the last attempt to revive the United States (Provinces) of Central America that had a life 4 times during century XIX with different levels of success. the war had a sudden end with the death in action of the minister of the war of El Salvador and main promoter of the conflict, that commanded our army in the invasion of Guatemala. the war begun july 9 of 1906 and the end of hostilities takes effect july 17 of 1906. after his death our army retreated to our country followed of the Guatemalan army invasion. during the Guatemalan invasion another army from El Salvador invade as well Guatemala for the south. the 17th ( day of the end of the hostilities) the Guatemalans mounted a final attack with 6000 soldiers against our army that defend my country in the invasion front ( at the north of my country), being defeated and then they retreated to their country. our army stayed in south of Guatemala until the sign of the peace accord on board of the US war ship Marblehead.

Cordial greetings,

Humberto

Hello Gordon,

Very nice awards! thanks for posting!

by chance do you have any document for them???

Thanks!

Hello Charles,

please follow this link for more information about Franz-Joseph-Order.

http://www.austro-hungarian-army.co.uk/franjord.htm

Cordial Greetings,

Humberto

hello,

I am wondering why the lifesaving medals were diminished under Third Reich??

Thanks in advance!

Hello Kapitular,

Welcome to the forum

Cordial Greetings,

Humberto

hello all,

thanks for sharing all this info and images!

I am wondering if it was alone the kaiser who granted personally the 1 class decoration??I should suppose then that the other two lower classes were granted by some authority of the red cross.

why in some ribbon bars that you have shown here the ribbons of the 2nd and 3rd clases were used together and in other's separated by another medal ribbon?

thanks!

Humberto

Humberto, this current ebay auction has pictures of both the big (~ 50mm) and small (~25mm) Prussian medal, hope this helps - I've got none, unfortunally. By the way, the Prussian ones are almost common, but any other imperial German LSM is actually rare, from Anhalt to W?rttemberg ...

Thank you Saschaw, any idea if the big Prussian medal was awarded with a document too?

Many thank's Rick as always!!!!

Yes, any type of mortal danger--

drowning

fire

pulling people off railroad tracks about to be run over

being dragged by runaway horses

any accidental peril of those kinds where the rescuer was as likley to have been killed as succeeding in the rescue..

In Prussia, where quite oddly the non-wearable LOWER Class medallion is quite huge saving life but NOT at risk to the lifesaver got the lesser award. Sometimes only a cash present or something like a watch and the rescuer's name in the newspaper was a lesser reward. So somebody, say, who waded into water over a small child's head but only up to the rescuer's waist would get a lesser award since there was no danger to the Good Samaritan.

The only other citation reasons besides for Prussian awards that I have are from Lippe-Detmold, and are from 1830s-60s Merit Medals before there were separate Lifesaving Medals in Lippe:

those include saving a child who had been sucked into the water wheel of a mill (where BOTH could have been crushed and drowned), several awards to miners called in on a national appeal (!) who had saved a child who had fallen down a well and become trapped (they had to dig and then enter the hole, which could have fallen in on them too), and many rescues from fires and people swept away by floods. Several of these 19th century citations state that they were for unsuccessful ATTEMPTED rescues, where the attempt might also have killed the failed rescuer.

very interesting Rick! I think that this medal does not have the atencion that deserves!

any chance to see an image of the non-wearable lower Class medallion ?? this was granted with an award document too???

I have never seen a medal of these in real but for which I can see in your medal bars images they are very small, could you please tell me the measures of these????

Thanks again!

I'm amazed that they had a printed form at all, once it was all over. Notice the nifty rubber stamp? The crown was too big to carve off, but they have crossed out the royal abbreviation in the title!!

Weissing was head of Brunswick's Privy Council in 1917, so he was a top man in the state government. I just can't find anything else on him-- he is not in the 1908/09 Orders Almanac.

I haven't been able to find which division the 204th Field Artillery Regiment was in.

This is a very nice finding for me!!! after all the document was signed by a top man in the state government!!!

It is curious that they have crossed out the royal abbreviation in the seal but not in the document text.

until what year after the war they continued awarding this medal??

Thanks very much for this information Humberto. The number is written on the back of a photo of a sailor wearing the Zerst?rerkriegsabzeichen but I didn't think that would help tie him to the FPN in any way - just goes to show!

James

your welcome James!!

now you know why he was awarded with the Zerst?rerkriegsabzeichen!!!!

Cordial Greetings,

Humberto

The document is for the Brunswick War Merit Cross 2nd Class (BrK2) to Kanonier (Fahrer on the Austrian slip) Karl M?ller of 2nd Battery Field Artillery Regiment 204, commanded to Bavarian (!) Artillery Commander 7 and is the very first POST-war one I have ever seen.

"Bavarian Artillery Commander 7" was an independent brigade level formation, commanded from 27.8.17 to war's end by Oberstleutnant Herold, but I do not know WHERE it was.

During the war, all these Brunswick award documents were hand signed by State Minister Wolff, who was raised to the nobility during the war, so "Wolff" and "v.Wolff" signatures are seen. Yours was signed by another civil servant, Geheime Kanzlei Kanzlei Direkteur "W Weissing."

The little tiny "fortune cookie fortune" size Austro-Hungarian bronze bravery medal authorization strip is simply attached to it so the little thing won't get lost.

That poor Austrian medal has been scrubbed to death. They were made with a lovely dark CHOCOLATE colored chemical patina.

Thank you Rick for posting your documents!

about the medal, almost has lost the chocolate finish that you mention. they were all manufactured from bronze??? unfortunately the ribbon is a modern replacement.

Regarding the document could be possible to know more of whom signed it? or was an insignificant civil servant that got lost in hystory? Probably by that time the State Minister Wolff had more important thing's to do that sign the award documents!!! so this post war documents are not so common? I think in this phase after of the war this kind of document could replaced the wartime formal document??

Dear forumites,

In order to bring to new life this very interesting forum, I'd like to take to opportunity to share one of my latest purchases...

Medal description of the Frackspange (Godet):

? Preussen, Verdienstkreuz f?r Kriegshilfe, 1916-1924 (OEK 1966)

? Preussen, Roter Adler Orden 4. Klasse (OEK 1704)

? Preussen, Olberg-Kreuz, ab 1910 (OEK 1854)

? Osmanisches Reich, Medaille Roter Halbmond

Miniature description (Godet):

? Osmanisches Reich, Medaille Roter Halbmond

? Preussen, Roter Adler Orden 4. Klasse (OEK 1704)

? Preussen, Verdienstkreuz f?r Kriegshilfe, 1916-1924 (OEK 1966)

? Schaumburg-Lippe, Hausorden Offiziersehrenkreuz (OEK 1206)

? Sachsen-Weimar, Hausoden vom Weissen Falken, Komturkreuz (OEK 2329)

? Oldenburg, Hausorden Herzog Peter Friedrich Ludwig, Offizierskreuz (OEK 1512)

? Osmanisches Reich, Medjidje-Orden, Komturkreuz

Any additional information on Herrn Klaproth is very welcome!!!

Ciao,

Claudio

Hello all,

Another old thread that I bring back.

please excuse if my question is out of place but as I am a new imperial awards collector, I am wondering which was the service that Herr Klaproth lend as Kommerzienrat and Bankdirektor to be awarded with all this orders & medals?

Many thanks!