Odulf

Your man is Carl Magnus Victor Rehbinder, born 1844. Here he is later in life with an Belgian Leopold order. The text says that he took part in a French campaign to Aurés in 1879. That is a area in Algeria, at least that is what wikipedia told me..

/Kim

A bit late perhaps, but THANX A TON!

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Some portraits from my photo collection, please enjoy.

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Recently I caught this (obviously) unsignificant minor photo (3.5 x 4.5 cm) in a larger badge of pictures. But, at closer range it was a small treasure.

On his left breast pocket this soldier wears a badge of a pewter (or such like material) running hare.

At the reverse there is a text giving his Field-post-number, which guided to the identity of the soldier: 3rd Coy IR 572. This unit was part of 302 ID, and its divisional commander was Konrad Haase (Haase in English is Hare). Haase was Div.Kdr. between 15-11-1940 and 30-11-1942, holding the French coast around Dieppe. The division never, so far, saw action during the war, but it was employed as an occupation force. But on 19-08-1942 the 2nd Canadian Division launched an ill faithed invasional attack on Dieppe, supported by some British units. The German division and surrounding units contained the Allied attack and took many prisoners of war. The attack was a disaster.

As a tribute to their commander, the German troops involved wore a simple, unofficial, pewter badge of a hare. When the wearing of this badge was abolished is not recorded, non was it's existence. The 302nd was destroyed in Rumania at the end of the war.

Who has any more information?

A bit off topic, but I want to share this unidentified Swedish officer with you. He's wearing the French Colonial Medal with the clasp for ALGERIE. Wonder how he got it?

Thank you all for adding to this quite interesting and long going topic, to which I want to add my observation that some medals (with swords) have the hinge above the swords and others below the swords - thus direct to the medal.

Is there any indication to which connection dates to a certain period, or was it up to the makers?

Not very common, I would say 1 in 500...

Agree with Eberding and Hofmann.

Were these Freikorps medals considered to be obsolter after 1935? Other Freikorps decorations, such as the Baltic Cross, are seen to be worn until 1945? However, medals of Veterans Organisations (like Kyffhäuser) were all replaced by the Ehrenkreuz für Frontkämpfer.