Question on medal bar

[HeikoGrusdat]

Hello all (especially the evil one...)

maybe someone can help me with this beautifull but unfortunately a little bit wrecked medal bar...

which RAO class is missing? what is the light-blue ribbon 4th from last (W?rttemberg or foreign..) ? what is the second ribbon from last? and of course... who was the owner???

thanks for all help, unfortunately this is the only photo I can offer at the moment...

best wishes

Heiko

[Guest Rick Research]

The EVIL Ricky does not do medal bars, because only I, the GOOD Ricky, have Rank Lists.

This combination screams "Navy" at me (Norwegian St Olaf,

Turkish Osmanie 4th:

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Japanese Sacred Treasure-- 4th? 5th?? what class is that?)

But I can't find a match in 1914!

It must be a Red Eagle 4, with the Prussian Crown 4. There were a good number of Korvettenkapit?ns with those, but not matching the foreign awards.

NO clue what the plain blue was... might be a W?rttemberg Friedrich Order-- but I don't THINK so. Look where the removed THING left its mark on the folded ribbon-- like a small MEDAL size. We'll IGNORE that and focus on all the others. (I hate one-color ribbons! )

A lot of naval engineers had the RAO4/KO4... and were more likely than a zS officer to have "invisible" steel campaign medals...

but no match on the foreign awards, either.

It is definitely a pre-war bar though, which limits the suspects:

that is a Prussian/navy XXV on there, so Beamten were not authorized to receive that then. It's a "combatant branch" bar.

Now the GOOD Ricky

ALWAYS asks

(what does he ask, chorus?)

"What Color Is The Backing Material?"

[HeikoGrusdat]

Rick, I could get some more information on the bar... the backing material is RED and without a maker. Someone in the family, maybe the son of the owner has been a priest or something like that and the bar comes originally from the area of munich (M?nchen)... that`s all I could get...

Heiko

[Guest Rick Research]

Red shows up SOMETIMES on navy bars, but blue on an army bar is really strange as a clue.

So red doesn't help here. But I am now sure (I went through 1908 last night too) that despite the CLASSIC "you had to take a boat to GET there" foreign awards, this is NOT navy.

So that means a page by page search through the Prussian army Rank List. When the weather improves enough (300% humidity here now).