The poor Prussians.....

[Chris Boonzaier]

Sometimes I think they were stiffed.

A private could have ended the war with just an EK2 on his bar, whereas the Bavarians, Saxons etc usually had the EK AND their own trinkets....

I wonder if it made the average Prussian soldier angry.... I have never read anything about it.....

[Christian L]

with a certain way of "understatement" the guys would never have said anything.

a short story - not imperial, but i guess it explains it good - a guy got more than 20 days of close combat figthing (all documented in his wehrpass) - but was never awarded a close combat clasp. while talking with his comrades and my friend who visited him, he was a little "pissed-off" but does accept it, that he will never get one. as he would have never worn one, as he wasn't awarded one.

christian

[Dave Danner]

Well, this guy didn't get the EK, just his state's award, so he makes up for at least one of those poor Prussians. He did make sure everyone knew that Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria knew he served, though.

[VtwinVince]

Right Dave, my family, being Prussians, probably felt a little undervalued and, hence, heavily padded their spanges with these foreign KDM's.

[Dave Danner]

I also have a bar with just the Baden Silver Merit Medal on the ribbon of the Military Karl-Friedrich Merit Order (Baden's EK2 "equivalent" for enlisted soldiers) and the Honor Cross for Combatants. No EK2 for that particular Badener.