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    Posted

    Here is a new photo I have received recently. The photo has been taken in 1911.This officer at this time has in his medal bar the following medals :

    Knight cross 1st class of Albert Orden of Saxe : 23 May 1905

    Long service medal for 25 years : 1906

    Red Eagle Order 4th class of Prussia 23 September 1908

    Centenary medal : 22 March 1897

    Knight cross of the Orden of the Crown of Wurttemberg : 23 September 1908.

    He received more medals after.

    Knight cross 1st class of Merit Order : 23 May 1912

    During the war he received :

    Knight cross of St Henry : 14 January 1916

    Officer cross with X of Albert Order : 10 February 1915

    And both iron crosses.

    His promotion

    Leutnant : 13 October 1882

    Oberleutnant : 20 November 1888

    Hauptmann : 18 September 1893

    Major : 23 April 1904

    Oberstleutnant : 11 July 1910

    Char. Oberst : 20 March 1912

    Oberst : 22 February 1915

    z.D. : 20 March 1912

    Generalmajor : 27 April 1918

    a. D. : 31 March 1920.

    During the war, he served in the R.I.R Nr. 245 and in Ersatz Infanterie Regiment Nr. 24

    I like the saxon medal bar with Wurttemberg knight cross of Order of the Crown.

    I hope you will like it.

    Christophe

    Posted

    Nice picture! But isn´t it him more possibly as Oberstleutnant then as Oberst? As you noticed, he got the knight 1st class of the Merit Order with his dismission in May 1912. Therefore the picture must be before his promotion to Char. Oberst.

    Regards, Komtur.

    Posted

    Thanks for your comments.

    To Komtur, you are right, at the time the photo has been taken, in 1911 (I have said it in the first post) Hesse was only Oberstleutnant, sorry for my mistake

    Christophe

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