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    Please help finding recipient of Colonial medal bar


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    Hello,

    Indeed a very nice combination + altough i am far from a specialist let me take some educated guesses;

    * As there 3 thd classes of both Crown and Red eagle it must have been a higher ranking person.

    * The lack off WWI awards such as the Iron Cross 2 nd. class or the War Merit cross does make me believe that this person might have been deceased already by that time.

    * Then we have the combination of both the Colonial (Afrika) medal + the 2 red cross medals, the III and the II nd. class.

    I also believe that this person has been a doctor of some kind. Therefore i have been browsing a bit and have come up with 3 names (altough it would suprise me very much iff it is one of these gentlemens => therefore our wizards will proove me rather fast wrong :unsure::speechless: )

    1) Prof dr. August Hildebrandt

    Red cross III class : 23/04/1901

    Red cross II nd. class : 1914

    2) dr. Tom Ringel

    Red cross III class : 23/04/1901

    Red cross II nd. class : 1916

    3) Prof. dr. Julius Wietig

    Red cross III class : 23/04/1901

    Red cross II nd. class : 1916

    Can anyone of the rank list guys eliminate these guys ?

    COrdial greetings + hoping i was of some use :unsure:

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    Willi, An interesting combination. I think with the higher grades of the RAO, PCO and St. Micheal the bar should be traced. We will wait for the "master" to appear and see.

    Well, who ever the "master" is, he has apparently no clue!

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    Hello,

    These dates are from a older BDOS magazine, can find out a few more about these medals iff wanted. :beer:

    The magazine in question was : OMM nr. 87 - issue from december 1998

    Cordial greetings,

    ps: i am slowly learning to become just a small shade of the master, one has to start as a humble apprentice :speechless:

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    Stijn:

    May I have a copy of that article?

    CAn I get back copies of the BDOS journal?

    Thanks,

    Ulster :beer:

    Hi Ulster,

    Copying the whole magazine (as that issue has only 1 area : the red cross medal) would probably be just as expensive as getting the magazine itself.

    I have seen in teh past that dealers such as Weitze, etc... have such older issue's +> so my advice, surf a bit arround and find that particular piece.

    OMM stands for: Orden Militaria Magazin

    Cordial greetings,

    ps: indeed the copyright needs to be respected, the BDOS is a marvelous organisation and has done already some good work. As a member myself i would not want to disrespect them. (Have edited as i do not want to hijack this thread to much :speechless: )

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    Copying the whole magazine (as that issue has only 1 area : the red cross medal) would probably be just as expensive as getting the magazine itself.

    And there would be, of course, not insignificant copyright issues.

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