Please help finding recipient of Colonial medal bar

[Willi]

Another bar in my collection I do nothing Know about the recipient, is somebody able to find out the person? The enameled orders are real gold. Perhaps from a medical doctor? Thanks.

[Paul C]

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.

[Stijn David]

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 )

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

[Willi]

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!

[Stijn David]

Hi WIlli,

No need to worry => the master is amongst us and he will answer sooner or later.

Patience my friend, patience ...

Cordial greetings,

[Ulsterman]

Stijn-

Where did you get the red cross medals award dates?

Thanks,

Ulster

[Stijn David]

Hello,

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

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

Edited August 11, 2006 by Stijn David

[Ulsterman]

Stijn:

May I have a copy of that article?

CAn I get back copies of the BDOS journal?

Thanks,

Ulster

[Stijn David]

Stijn:

May I have a copy of that article?

CAn I get back copies of the BDOS journal?

Thanks,

Ulster

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 )

Edited August 11, 2006 by Stijn David

[Ed_Haynes]

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.

[Willi]

Back to the initial question: Does no one have a clue?