Brigadier General Charles R. Krauthoff

[Ed_Haynes]

I was going through some old issues of the JOMSA and ran across an interesting article by Jeffrey Calufield in the May 1988 issue on these medals.

An interesting piecture was included, which I add here. Nice group!

Even nicer in that his WWI Victory medal was officially numbered. Only 100 or so were numbered.

Just as eye-candy . . . .

Edited February 5, 2009 by Ed_Haynes

[Paul R]

Nice image Ed. The first foreign medal is French, right? What are the other three?

[Ed_Haynes]

Quoting from Caulfield's nice article:

Army Distinguished Service Medal 393

Spanish Campaign Medal No 7756

Philippine Insurrection Medal No 22456

World War I Victory Medal U.S.M. 95

France - Legion of Honor, 4th class

Serbia - Order of St. Sava, 5th class

Serbia - Order of the Red Cross, 2nd class

Montenegro - Milosh Obilich Medal

Missing:

Poland - Order of Polonia Rsetitutia, 2nd class

Belgium - Order of the Crown, 2nd class

Serbia - Order of the White Eagle, 2nd class

Rumania - Order of the Crown, 2nd class

[Piramida]

Unfortunately the author of the article is wrong about the last medal. He cited it as the Milosh Obilich Medal medal from Montengro, while it's actually Montenegro's Silver Bravery Medal. I believe that the only American to receive the Milosh Obilich in WWI was Pershing.

Ivan

[Daniel Cole]

I thought it was a silver bravery medal, but the ribbon looked different.

[Igor Ostapenko]

Quoting from Caulfield's nice article:

Army Distinguished Service Medal 393

Spanish Campaign Medal No 7756

Philippine Insurrection Medal No 22456

World War I Victory Medal U.S.M. 95

France - Legion of Honor, 4th class

Serbia - Order of St. Sava, 5th class

Serbia - Order of the Red Cross, 2nd class

Montenegro - Milosh Obilich Medal

Missing:

Poland - Order of Polonia Rsetitutia, 2nd class

Belgium - Order of the Crown, 2nd class

Serbia - Order of the White Eagle, 2nd class

Rumania - Order of the Crown, 2nd class

Not Milosh Obilich - Silver Bravery Medal on the picture ...