Chris Boonzaier Posted February 4, 2011 Author Posted February 4, 2011 - 78 - Good stuff, that would fit. Am sure these guys got a mention in the regt history, if it is a detailed one.
Chris Boonzaier Posted March 26, 2011 Author Posted March 26, 2011 A proud Bavarian... Jakob Osberger, waffenmeister in the 22 bavarian Inf Regt, dated September 1915
saschaw Posted March 27, 2011 Posted March 27, 2011 A proud Bavarian... Jakob Osberger, waffenmeister in the 22 bavarian Inf Regt, dated September 1915 Yet without swords on his BMV5bB (or is it BMV5aB?) he could have added from mid July 1915 on... Great! According to Bergmann, 177 such 2nd classes and 367 1st classes were awarded. If you get tired of the picture, I can probably give you another EK wearer for it. ;)
Chris Boonzaier Posted June 21, 2011 Author Posted June 21, 2011 I think pics like these show how important the simple EK2 was...
Chris Boonzaier Posted June 21, 2011 Author Posted June 21, 2011 Like this? Indeed... you trumped me!
PKeating Posted June 22, 2011 Posted June 22, 2011 Time for an interlude. I can't remember if I actually sent this to Chris and Gordon for their website. Ah yes, I remember going to Spinks as a fourteen year old with a friend and old man Joslin pulling open a drawer of 1914 EK2 tied together like so many cheap trinkets. £1.50 each but he gave us two each for a fiver all-in, one of which was the CD 800 on the right here. Years later, my interest in militaria rekindling on an exercise in Germany, I entered a shop in Paderborn run by an angry-looking man in a loden jacket with a goatee. He looked like an Odessa official. But he became friendly when he realised that I spoke some German and wasn't asking for Nazi stuff, that I was interested in the cross you see on the right, which is in mint condition with a full-length riband and a black-stoved safety pin, as issued. He said he had it from the family and that it must have been sent after the death of the man who got it in 1915. Hearsay, of course, but no reason to doubt it. Years later, as makers became important, I compared them and found they had been been struck on the same dies, the core die having been damaged at some point, as the flaw across 1813 shows. So, looking at all of the wonderful period photographs you have posted, some of the earlier ones probably show CD 800s like the mint one and later examples like the flawed cross. PK
demir Posted November 7, 2011 Posted November 7, 2011 Hello Chris, Lovely pictures. Hard to find. I wonder, is it within the regulation to wear the medal with the ribbon in the second button hole of the tunic? I thought that it is only ribbon that you can wear in the second button hole. What does the regulation says? Thanks demir
Minen Posted December 18, 2011 Posted December 18, 2011 Hi, More photos of EKII on front. Karl Schäfer (1915, Russia) Stephan
Minen Posted December 18, 2011 Posted December 18, 2011 Gustav Siegmund (at centre) : His EKII (R.W.) : Steph
Minen Posted December 18, 2011 Posted December 18, 2011 Gustav Albert Brugger : EKII, Dienst Auszeichnung IIIe Klasse, Würtembergisches Silber Verdienst Medaille : Steph
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