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    Can someone tell me please what that neck order is??? I am a bit nervous because it is the PLM shaped cross but who got two EKs and a PLM as only ww1 awards? Or is it some kind of Malteser thing without the breast cross (or breast cross hided behind the arm...) ? Or whatever...??? He has two awards for colonial service (KO4X and DSWA-medal with two clasps) and two awards for ww1 (EK1 + 2) - nothing else.... any comments are welcome!!!

    Thanks

    Heiko

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    Guest Rick Research

    Oh Lord... he looks like 55 yet he was still only 36 when he was killed.

    That would be Konrad Kalau v. Hofe, born 22 July 1880

    Leutnant 18.05.01 A2a

    Oberleutnant 17.05.10 X9x

    Hauptmann 05.09.14 C6c

    From Inf Rgt 26 to Inf Rgt 52

    He was a hero of Fort Douaumont, receiving the Pour le Merite 23 July 1916, skipping the HOH3X. He was buried alive by the explosion of a mine under his battalion command post at Cornilletberg on 29 April 1917, and by the time it was dug out 20 hours later, he and everyone else inside had suffocated.

    Look at that face.

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