Bavaria Ranglist search - Lt. Hans Böhning

[Soderbaum]

Hi again

This file gives his last date of wounding in aerial combat as 22.09.18 instead of 20.09.18.

Gunnar

[Soderbaum]

Hi

A further file gives the date for his "first" MVO4 mit S as 05.06.16. This file also mentioned something called PEK 2 (23.12.15).

Gunnar

[Berlinerbummel]

Thank you very much, Gunnar!

The photo was clearly taken before the later awards were given. In which order would these have been worn - Bavarian or Prussian?

Edited October 11, 2012 by Berlinerbummel

[Dave Danner]

Gunnar,

PEK2 is Preussisches Eisernes Kreuz 2.Klasse. PEK is just how the Bavarians normally abbreviated the Iron Cross. So the files just have different award dates, either 23 or 24 December 1915.

Berlinerbummel,

The 1918 rank list is only for active officers. It does not include reserve or Landwehr officers like your Lt.d.R. Böhning. It also only shows their Bavarian decorations.

Dave

[Berlinerbummel]

Thank you for that information, Dave. The photo of him seated is still a bit of a question mark. I don't see any Prussian ribbons so it looks like the two MVO's and the Bremen ribbon.

I don't think that the soldiers at the front were too worried about their Feldspangen! My father never had a bar with all of his awards either and after the war he just threw the lot in box in his dresser (after he was released from a French POW camp three years later).