Deruelle Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 Hi, My wife has find this ribbon bar recently on ebay. I remember having a photo with the same medal. Have a look.Christophe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IR 134 Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 Hi Deruelle. Do you have the original of this photo?Gru? Stefan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deruelle Posted December 1, 2007 Author Share Posted December 1, 2007 Hello Stefan, Yes I have the original photo. do you know the owner ?RegardsChristophe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IR 134 Posted December 2, 2007 Share Posted December 2, 2007 Sent you a message.Gru? Stefan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stogieman Posted December 2, 2007 Share Posted December 2, 2007 I concur with Stefan.... this is a known face. Searching my files as we speak.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IR 134 Posted December 10, 2007 Share Posted December 10, 2007 (edited) Hello Christophe.The email has well arrived. Many many thanks.To identify this officer first i think we had to identify the medalbar.1. the St. Heinrichs-Orden of course2. maybe AR 1X?3. EK 24. ?Rick or somebody please heeeeelpDefinitely the photo can be dated at period 1918-1919 (Black wound badge)Gru? Stefan Edited December 10, 2007 by IR 134 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webr55 Posted December 10, 2007 Share Posted December 10, 2007 It will be really difficult to ID this combination, except if ... is there a readable number on the shoulderboard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IR 134 Posted December 10, 2007 Share Posted December 10, 2007 (edited) The photo was taken in Plauen so it seems very likely to be an officer of Inf.Rgt.134.What could be a possibility is Res.Inf.Rgt. 243 (3rd bataillon/243 was raised from IR 134 and some officers of IR 134 served in RIR 243), Reserve-Rgt. 133 or maybe Landwehr-Rgt.133. But I tend to the first one: IR 134 Gru? Stefan Edited December 10, 2007 by IR 134 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted December 10, 2007 Share Posted December 10, 2007 I cannot tell what the last award is from the sepia blurred photo. It's not a Hindenburg Cross, it's some WW1 Order with Swords. It LOOKS like, but cannot be, an Oldenburg House Order X.Until that can be identified, I can't help.Try changing the contrast and ZOOMING IN on the medal bar for a BIG scan of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted December 10, 2007 Share Posted December 10, 2007 The more I look at this, the more I think thatweird as it soundsthat is an "Iron Cross sandwich" and what he is wearing LAST is a Saxon Merit Order-Knight 2nd X. I am at a loss for what ELSE it could possibly be with a ribbon like that, so DUMB as this precedence is, that is what I think he is wearing.Unit numbers on his boards are COMPLETELY unreadable to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deruelle Posted December 10, 2007 Author Share Posted December 10, 2007 Gotcha I'v got it : Kurt ZehmischReceived the SH3, 27.11.1916SA3bX, 19.10.1915.No SV3bX on Roth's book.No Hohenzollern.I remember when I bought this, I have got a small paper with a unit and and a first name Kurt and the first letter of the name Z. AFter that I can easily find it. But one medal is missing. Now Rick with his fabulous research can find it.RegardsChristophe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 International Homer Simpson Noise: DOH!!!!!It is an HE3bX Principality of Hohenzollern Honor Cross 3bX, Lfd Nr 811 on the Roll, awarded to him as Leutnant dR 1./ KS inf Rgt 134 on 2 May 1918. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IR 134 Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 Wooooaaahhh Kurt Zehmisch? Boys you are greeeeeaaaaat.For me, interested in IR 134th history Kurt Zehmisch is a very faboulus name. He was involved in the Christmas-Peace 1914 in Flanders. Also he had written a Diary which his son, who is still alive and live in Kurt Zehmischs native-town near Plauen, keeps. Last year was the reopening ceremony of the regimental-monument in Plauen which was destroyed after 1945-. There I met the son and he told me, that his father served in WW2 in Inf.Rgt. 185 (raised in Plauen) and got missing. In civilian life Kurt Zehmisch was a Teacher.Yesterday, after some looks at the photo i also thougt that might be Kurt Zehmisch, but I was unsure.Now, I?m still out of words .Gru? Stefan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IR 134 Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 http://www.hr-online.de/website/rubriken/k...cument_13548972A picture of Zehmisch as a F?hnrich 1914 (scroll down)Gru? Stefan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 One of our greatest satisfactions is putting a name-- and so a LIFE-- back on something that is "anonymous."As long as we remember... the history lives on, even with a sad ending to this officer's story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Cole Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 Rick, what you says mirrors a quote from Friedrich Nietzsche. He said "Ein Mensch lebt in seinen B?chern wieder, wenn in jeder Generation nur ein Mensch Dein Buch liest, bist Du nicht tod".Applies to why we look stuff up and track history down.Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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