saschaw Posted May 1, 2007 Posted May 1, 2007 As it's now may and many maybugs are flying around here, a decided to show you a small group of a "maybug" officer (Prussian Garde F?siliere) I aquired some months ago. It's the group of Bernhard B?ttcher, born Sept. 20th 1879 in Trebnitz near Lebus. The group came with one single photo, and I guess it might be him on the horse, as he's the only one to wear a 2 place medal bar.
saschaw Posted May 1, 2007 Author Posted May 1, 2007 Here his medal bar from pre1913 (actually pre1911, as he should have been awarded by then a higher long service award):
saschaw Posted May 1, 2007 Author Posted May 1, 2007 And its back:PS: The Centenarmedaille has been missing and is replaced ...
saschaw Posted May 1, 2007 Author Posted May 1, 2007 His later 2 place medal bar, now post 1913, with the plain blue ribbon. We can see very nice that the order changed: from last to second to last position for the long service award - now it outranks the "Centenarmedaille":
saschaw Posted May 1, 2007 Author Posted May 1, 2007 The buttonhole decoration is still pre1913/pre1911:
saschaw Posted May 1, 2007 Author Posted May 1, 2007 (edited) Shoulder straps as NCO - yummy, said the moths ... Edited May 1, 2007 by saschaw
saschaw Posted May 1, 2007 Author Posted May 1, 2007 (edited) Later he got Leutnant (and it seems he never left the "Garde F?silier-Regiment"): Edited May 1, 2007 by saschaw
saschaw Posted May 1, 2007 Author Posted May 1, 2007 And in 1915, by then "Knight of the Iron Cross", he was killed in action ... -.-
saschaw Posted May 1, 2007 Author Posted May 1, 2007 (edited) In 1934, his widow got the Honour Cross ...PS:It is maker marked "JMME", the same who produced many Third Reich Aviaton badges and stuff like that ... Edited May 1, 2007 by saschaw
saschaw Posted May 1, 2007 Author Posted May 1, 2007 Never seen before: a duplicate of the "Sterbeurkunde", made in 1934 "In Angelegenheit des Ehrenkreuzes" - "regarding the Honur Cross"!
saschaw Posted May 1, 2007 Author Posted May 1, 2007 There is much more paper that came with it, but I don't think that anything more is worth to be shown. Many "F?hrungszeugnisse" and stuff like that, as well as some kind of diary in which he wrote essay-like texts, actually comment on "recent" things: comments about aviation in Berlin, about his work as a NCO, about the earthquake in Italy 1908, about the colonies ... @ Red Eagle:BTW, he used to life Berlin-Tegel, Brunowstra?e ... PS:I don't think that I'll have to keep the group, so if someone might be interrested in giving it a new home ....
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