Jump to content
News Ticker
  • I am now accepting the following payment methods: Card Payments, Apple Pay, Google Pay and PayPal
  • Latest News

    Ribbon bar of officer-doctor with austrian awards


    Recommended Posts

    hee hee-now if you had the Lundstrom/Krause books....... :Cat-Scratch:

    Odd there is no SL or jubilee, but maybe not, given the specialist nature of the profession.

    That is a superb bar by the way.

    Congratulations.

    Edited by Ulsterman
    Link to comment
    Share on other sites

    Hi Bolgarin,

    Although lately there are many fake or newly mounted medal bars coming from Austria on Ebay with lots of Austrian medals in them, I have a good feeling about this one.

    But I don't think it's researchable from the German side of the rolls... maybe from the Austrian side, but it will be quite a long shot. For sure it was a German medical officer...

    Ciao,

    Claudio

    Link to comment
    Share on other sites

    Guest Rick Research

    Not... today.

    There were almost 300 doctors who received the Saxe-Meiningen War Honor Cross ("SMK" in Rank-List-speak). Many of them could be eliminated with enough time--

    too senior, or with other known awards

    but there would still probably be 50 or so for whom we have no other data...

    today...

    but Roman Slivin is working very hard on Austro-Hungarian awards to Germans--

    so when he has completed THAT work, we can compare who got BOTH the SMK and ?FJ4K (Franz Joseph Knight with War Decoration) and the Red Cross awards.

    THEN we will know.

    I agree, this is absolutely the medal bar of a medical doctor and not a military official. He was possibly a career regular army officer, since that Franz Joseph implies a rank of Stabsarzt or so, and if he was a Reserve or Landwehr doctor I'd have expected a reserve long service award.

    maybe not.

    But we will find out SOON-- maybe in 2009? :catjava:

    It is a lovely bar! :cheers:

    Link to comment
    Share on other sites

    Guest Rick Research

    2) Saxe Meiningen War Honor Cross on combatant ribbon, 1st type in bronze ("SMK")

    3) Austro-Hungarian Franz Joseph Order-Knight, on the war ribbon ("?FJ4K")

    4) Austro-Hungarian 1914+ Red Cross Decoration 2nd Class with War Wreath ("?R4K")

    6) Prussian Red Cross Medal 3rd Class-- either a pre-war one, or a postwar replacement in the pre-war type for an icky wartime zink one ("PrRKM3")

    SMKs are all listed in the triple Ernestine Duchies WW1 Award Rolls volume

    Link to comment
    Share on other sites

    Create an account or sign in to comment

    You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

    Create an account

    Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

    Register a new account

    Sign in

    Already have an account? Sign in here.

    Sign In Now
    ×
    ×
    • Create New...

    Important Information

    We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue.