Rickmer Rickmers

[HeikoGrusdat]

Last week I spent some days in Hamburg.... in the habour is a sailing ship , the Rickmer Rickmers , which is today a museum and a restaurant.

In the museum there is a painting of the man who gave this ship his name : Rickmer Clasen Rickmers , a reeder from Hamburg if I understood everything correct.... interesting for us are the orders the man wears on this painting!!!

[HeikoGrusdat]

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[HeikoGrusdat]

close up of the orders.... comments are welcome :rolleyes:

[HeikoGrusdat]

and one more very interesting thing....

they have some pictures there of the first captain of the ship , Mr. H.H.Ahlers , he is wearing an order which I cannot 100% ID..... maybe someone here can....

[HeikoGrusdat]

and......................... they also have his original uniform !!!!

BUT

what do you think............ what order is on his uniform, what medal is it???? hhhhmmmmmmm???? :speechless:

[HeikoGrusdat]

now that`s a surprise................

if you don`t have the original medal ---------- just go marching in the netherlands !!!

[GRA]

Hello Heiko!

That would probably be the easy way out, four days of going walkie! It?s the bike orderly medal of the

4-daagse in Nijmegen on the picture, not the marching cross, but for some reason it seems like the

suspender of the cross is used on this medal.

Greetings/GRA

[Guest Rick Research]

The founder of the shipping dynasty (his ships were used to transport German troops to Georgia in August 1918-- at the REQUEST of the government there) is wearing a Prussian Crown Order 3rd Class on the ribbon given for war aid in 1870/71 (no Red Cross on the upper arm of the Cross itself), then a British Order of Saints Michael & George (!!!!) normally given for long years in the colonies, then what looks like a Mecklenburg Military Merit Cross with no more correct ribbon.

[Ralph]

Here is the LOndon Gazette entry for his CMG

http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/ViewPDF.as...st=&similar=o

Ralph