Saxon Officer's Bar

[dond]

Is this combination possible?

[Daniel Krause]

yup, easily.

SA3bX as 1st Lt, short after promotion to Captain followed the SA3aX.

If he would have earned a 2nd award before he made Capt, he would have gotten the SV3bX.

Best regards

Daniel

[medalnet]

It is interesting that the Saxons allowed their honored citizens to wear multilpe knights badges at once.

[Guest Rick Research]

Yes-- and much FAIRER than the other German states that REPLACED a lower award with a higher one, so that all that showed was ONE award, instead of the TWO like this.

[HeikoGrusdat]

yes............like this one of Paul Sievert

[dond]

Thanks guys.

[Deruelle]

Hi,

I have got one ribbon bar with a similar combo (EK2 SA3aX m. Kr, SA3ax or SA3bX and EfF)

Regards

Christophe

[Guest Rick Research]

An attributable "double"--

Ill-fated Luftwaffe Generalleutnant Erwin von R?mer (1885-1948) received, in 2nd and 3rd places here, and the same as the two Alberts shown in the medal bar up top--

SA3aX on 3 May 1917 as a Hauptmann in Kampfgeschwader 1, and

SA3bX on 13 November 1915 while an Oberleutnant still in J?ger Battalion 13

[ccj]

Rick,

What's the purple ribbon?

[Guest Rick Research]

Reuss Honor Cross, peacetime-- 4th ribbon is same thing on the wartime ribbon.

I've been through Daniel's early stages of MASSIVE new work on Saxony and found 370 WW1 double Alberts like the bar starting off this thread. Many many of those can no doubt be excluded as original wearer suspects because of other awards, but things are not that advanced yet. Christoph's SA3XmKr and SA3bX as lone pairs turned up 83 times, and I waded through those. 63 of those can be excluded, since the recipients had other awards. That leaves 23 possible recipients for his bar, at cujrrent state of knowledge. (Every new awards roll done adds incredible data foir group identifications.)

So double Alberts are not "unusual," but also not really very common, and in "pure Saxon" groupss, impossible to identify a specific original recipient...

but the numbers are looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow. Even "1 of 370" is "rare" by most standards.