Possible to ID this officier ?

[Deruelle]

Hi everybody,

I have received it recently and I just want to know if it is tracable. Look at the beautiful ribbon bar and more particulary of the second ribbon (I think of CM2 with date of Saxe Coburg Gotha ).

I can't read the back of the photo, if someone can help me. Thanks per advance

Christophe

[Deruelle]

A focus of the ribbon bar (it is the best photo I can made sorry )

Christophe

[Deruelle]

the back of the photo

Christophe

[Deruelle]

The second ribbon (without X) seems to this ribbon.

[Ulsterman]

That is the first time I have ever seen that as a stamp on a postcard.

From the Treasurer's bureau of the 47th Reserve Division, IR 220 and mailed from the Lipsk-Baranovitchi area.

It's from "Hans" to his sister I think.

[Guest Rick Research]

That's Generalleutnant Friedrich Wilhelm Nikolaus Alfred von Besser (1854-1919) as CO of the 47th Reserve Division. I am sure that his ribbon bar is

25mm size ribbons overlapping each other:

EK2 1870 w/1895 oakleaves, XXV, and the 1870 War Medal--those are two battle bars from that, not a Carl Eduard.

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[Bob Hunter]

Wonderful postcard. Thanks for sharing it.

[Glenn J]

Christophe,

A former commander of the Garde-J?ger-Bataillon and Leib-Garde-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 115, born 9 March 1854, the General died on 16 May 1919. Here is a portrait by the Austrian artist Oskar Bruch rendered in 1915.

Regards

Glenn

Edited September 2, 2005 by Glenn J