My Thuringian collection

[Ulsterman]

Encore! Encore!

[Blitz]

Most impressive.

[nesredep]

Hello!

Wow, very impressive. :jumping:

All the best

Nesredep

[Deruelle]

Thanks all for your comments

Christophe

[Deruelle]

New photo

Christophe

[Deruelle]

For Rick,

Here are the focuses of the photo

[Mike Dwyer]

Another photo with Commander cross of Saxe Ernestine with X. Have a look at the ribbon bar !

Christophe

Not just a great ribbon bar.................look at that mustache!!!!!! :jumping:

[Guest Rick Research]

This is driving me NUTS, Christophe!

That has to be a KO4X in first place on his ribbon bar (crown in the CENTER of the crossed swords device) but I cannot make out anything from the rest except his long service cross, 1897, and ?M3K at the end. All the other Xs and no devices are just washed out smudges.

He's an Oberstleutnant... something with a cipher and "Guards" Litzen...

but he appears to be about 95 years old and I cannot match anybody as ancient looking as he seems to be! If he turns out to have been 41...

:speechless1:

[Deruelle]

Here are some new photos for my collection. First one is Leutnant Wendelmuth.

Christophe

[Deruelle]

Mandred von Richthofen with his new Pour le M?rite.

[Deruelle]

Close up of the medal bar with the CM2X with claps

[Deruelle]

An interresting photo with the very rare SF2X (only 66 officers received it)

[Deruelle]

Close up of the medal

Christophe

[Deruelle]

For me this officer is Johannes Fretzdorf.

[Ulsterman]

Well, my Honour ranklist has him in the Kreigschool in Kassel, commanding Gren. Regt 3 in the war, Major General aD: REO4, LS, Cntl AND (!) Rettungsmedal in 1914!

Nice.

Edited November 14, 2008 by Ulsterman

[Guest Rick Research]

That's an interesting example of a wartime photo with an old pre-war medal bar being worn, unchanged.

Fretzdorff appears to have worn his Lifesaving Medal, as regulations allowed, as a buttonhole ribbon-- but in position superior to his EK2 buttonhole ribbon.

Since three of his wartime awards show up on the Rolls published so far, tweaking possible dates for this

GSF2bX = 6th Prusian in 1914

WVK-OX = 05.01.15 (and MUCH rarer than the White Falcon with only 23 awarded! )

and a

BMV3X not shown as a medal bar award = 01.10.15

while I can't see what his rank is on his shoulder boards, they are the huge lumpy pre-war type, so I'd say the photo was taken in 1915 or he hadn't updated his uniform yet.

He doesn't seem to have accumulated awards AFTER 1915 ... which is rather odd considering he did retire as a Generalmajor.

[Deruelle]

With the good books I can see only three officer who had both SF2X and WVOX. Many thanks for the info

Christophe

[Ulsterman]

Rick:

Isn't that the life saving medal on the medal bar?

Odd ribbon too, if it is.....

[christerd]

:cheers:

I have missed this thread before !

What a amazing collcetion , just super

Thanks for showing

Christer

[VtwinVince]

Bravo, Christophe, amazing collection and most informative.

[MJC]

Quite an enjoyable thread. Thanks for sharing and congratulations on your successes! :cheers:

[Deruelle]

Thanks all for your comments

Here is not a diplom but the cover. Have a look. It's very very rare.

Christophe

[Deruelle]

On the back the State seal.

Christophe

[Deruelle]

The last ribbon bar is a gem. One of my friend find this one and it will be definitively in my collection in the middle of December.

Christophe

[Guest Rick Research]

:love: Ahhhhhh, we need the REUSS rolls sooooooooooooooooooooooooo badly!!!!!! An Oberleutnant, from that class?