Frackspange w/ NK EK and Brunswick Merit NK

[Paul C]

I picked this up a while back and ws wondering about a few things. The medals are:

1. 1914 EK2 NK

2. Prussian 1916 War Aid

3. Prussian Red Eagle Order 4th Class

4. Red Cross Medal 3rd class

5. Landswehr 2nd Class

6. Brunswick War Merit Cross 2nd Class NK

The is no Hindenburg so any peacetime medal could not go after it. Since the RAO is before the LSC is it wartime? If it is then should it have swords or is it peacetime? My quess is that the bar is for a Landswehr Officer Doctor with between 10 and 20 years. Anyway to trace this bar?

[joe campbell]

wish i could answer your questions, but....

GOODNESS is that a sweet bar!!!

joe

[medalnet]

It is peacetime. The sequence looks right to me anyway.

[Guest Rick Research]

Yup, that's a beauty!

Frack mounting, so worn on civilian clothes, not a uniform. I don't know if the Godet street address offers any clues as to during the war or 1920s, but since 10,000 of the 13,000 "white black" EK2s came AFTER the war, odds are this is a 1920s mounting.

With the war efforts AND wartime Red Cross, no way to tell exactly what sort of a functionary he was--

but with FOUR non-combatant/home front war effort/civilian awards and being a "Major" level guy, an impressive array. The Red Eagle 4 and LD2 make me think he was an EX Reserve or Landwehr officer since most of them even in a civilian job where they got a Red Eagle 4 would have had enough time in for a 1920 bump-out with an XX Cross if they had kept up reserve status. So maybe an Oberleutnant or Hauptmann dR/dL aD and in a Regierungsrat sort of higher civil service job.

[Riley1965]

I was wondering about the backwards order of the medals?!!

Doc

[Gerd Becker]

I was wondering about the backwards order of the medals?!!

Doc

It?s a Frackspange, Doc, they are mounted "backwards". It was worn beside the collar on a civilian Frack.

Gerd

Edited January 22, 2007 by Gerd Becker

[Paul C]

Thanks for everyones comments and help.

[Paul R]

Sorry for the late response, but that an awesome bar you have there... pure quality, front and back. It is amazing how well the Landwehr Long service medals retained their finish!

[Riley1965]

It?s a Frackspange, Doc, they are mounted "backwards". It was worn beside the collar on a civilian Frack.

Gerd

Thanks Gerd,

That's the first one that I've seen.

Doc

[Stogieman]

Hi Paul, that's a pretty special bar.