EK 1914 The simple WW1 EK2...

[Ulsterman]

I came across a recent memoir ("In the Highest Quarters") by a staff officer who bitterly recounts how the EK became an award based upon class ("in the club") behind the lines and how bitterly common fighting men, for whom the EK1 was the apex of their world, viewed staff wallahs being handed them for things like map reading.

Hey-my 5,000th post!

[Chris Boonzaier]

Here is a nice shot of a serious looking Bavarian...

[Chris Boonzaier]

That is a killer!!!!!! Alpenkorps is really my favourite...

[Chris Boonzaier]

I am guessing this Landsturm guy was just issued this tunic, it looks store fresh.... notice how the EK is on backwards....

[Scott Powell]

here are a few from my collection

[Naxos]

[Naxos]

[Naxos]

University Students from Freiburg

[Odulf]

Sent by Landsturm-Inf.Batl. 1. Kp - Kaiserslautern on 27-04-1916

[Odulf]

Cap tally reads SMS Ostfriesland

Edited December 4, 2010 by Odulf

[Odulf]

With Bavarian MVK3 m.Schw.

Edited December 4, 2010 by Odulf

[Odulf]

Nice studio picture

Edited December 4, 2010 by Odulf

[Odulf]

Kapitänleutnant von Berckheim (U26) EK2 for sinking the Russian cruiser Pallada on 11-10-1914, and a postcard picturing the complement of U26, all wearing the EK2 for this action.

Edited December 4, 2010 by Odulf

[Odulf]

Two sailors wearing the cap tallies of the light cruiser SMS Elbing and the dreadnought SMS Baden, on leave 30-9 / 10-10-1916.

Elbing was deployed in September 1915 and lost at Jutland (1-6-1916) with all hands saved, Baden was launched October 1915 and compleded March 1917. Obviously the Baden man, also a recipient of the Rettungsmedaille, served in another unit before the picture was taken.

[Odulf]

Why is it that in so many pictures we see the combination of an EK2 with one or more women?

Would the Iron Cross have had a hidden message? :cool:

Edited December 4, 2010 by Odulf

[Odulf]

dated 27-6-1919

[Odulf]

Saxon, 12th Rgt.

Photographer in Chemnitz

[Odulf]

Cap tally: I. Bau-Division

[Odulf]

Eisenbahn-Regt. Nr.1

[Odulf]

And a picture of the Kaiser himself, wearing all his Iron Crosses.

This photo is from the interbellum, when Wilhelm lived in exile on a little castle in Doorn (The Netherlands). The photo was sent from Doorn on12-XII-1932.

[Odulf]

Hand coloured 1. Garde-Regiment zu Fuss

[TerryG]

Latest arrival

Edited December 9, 2010 by TerryG

[KIR]

Offizierstellvertreter

[Chris Boonzaier]

These two laddies dont seem to be the sharpest knives in the drawer

[Chris Boonzaier]

But they did get their EKs for escaping from a POW camp...