Ribbon bar of officer-doctor with austrian awards

[bolgarin]

Colleagues, is it possible to recognise personality of the officer who was the owner or the medal bar?

[bolgarin]

:rolleyes:

[Ulsterman]

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

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 November 6, 2008 by Ulsterman

[Claudio]

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

[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?

It is a lovely bar! :cheers:

[bolgarin]

Thanks for you opinions and help. And lets wait 2009 year.......Will be very interested to recognize the name of the owner....... :cheers:

[Riley1965]

Colleagues, is it possible to recognise personality of the officer who was the owner or the medal bar?

Would someone Please tell me what # 2, 3, 4, & 6 are? I'm trying to learn these things.

Doc

[scottplen]

nice bar !!! I tried to get that one a while ago !@! I think it was from emedals @!!!!

I love the combination!!! !! Glad to see some from the forum got it !!!

[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

[Riley1965]

Many Thanks Rick!!!

Doc