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    Herr Hauptmann's ribbon bar


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    As ribbon bar's are in the spotlight just now i've got this one to ask you all about.

    The Herr Hauptmann pictured was as member of the 6 Geb.Div. around 1940, I'm assuming he and some of his ribbons are Austrian. I think the swords ribbon is an ehrenkreuz and of course he has an EKII but any more than that and i'm lost... :speechless:

    His name was Vilus or Dilus or something similar.

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    Guest Rick Research

    Yup-- two generic bravery ribbons, Troop Cross, what is probably the 1918 Karl Wound Medal (can't be sure of stripes indicating how many wounds--1, maybe), HCX, maybe the Tyrol WW1, and a Sudetenland Medal 1938 or 1939 if he was only at the "Prague" stage but hadn't gotten a medal earlier to qualify for it AND a bar.

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    Guest Rick Research

    Yup, two different classes of WW1 Bravery Medal (most likely since no Xs on the ribbons)-- Gold, Large Silver, Small Silver, and Bronze being the options (Franz Joseph and or Karl issues).

    That's a TWO wound Karl Medal and I think it's a one wound on the ribbon bar, but that's the medal. :beer:

    I am guessing at the Tyrol as second last from position and rough proportion of what shows-- the red middle, green stripes often getting lost in this kind of white fuzz. That MIGHT be a 1938 Austrian Anschluss medal instead, but I'm inclined towards the Tyrol. It'd be easier to tell straight on instead of at the side angle he's at in the photo.

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