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    Posted
    On 12/03/2013 at 19:27, jaba1914 said:

    Medal bar of KptLt Johannes von Lossnitzer, commander of L 16, LZ 120, L41 and L 70. He died during the last raid over England. Onboard of L 70 was also FrgKpt Peter Strasser.

     

    07.01.1911 Preußen - Rettungsmedaille
    06.08.1915 Sachsen - Albrecht Orden Ritter 2 mit Schwertern
    03.03.1916 Bayern - MVO 4.Kl.mit Schwertern
    00.00.1916 Schamburg-Lippe - Kriegsverdienstkreuz
    15.11.1917 Coburg-Gotha - SEHO Ritter 1.Kl.mit Schwertern

     

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    What an absolutely beautiful medal bar! What I like the most, besides its provenience, of course, is the fact it combines bravery awards from five different German states, without any commemoratives, jubilee medals, long service awards and such. The Rettungsmedaille am Bande is just the icing on the cake!

     

    One minor correction, though: the decoration in last place is from the principality of Lippe (so-called "Lippe-Detmold"), not from Schaumburg-Lippe. No doubt you know this, but others that stumble upon this remarkable thread might not...

     

    :whistle:

     

    Posted

    Great group Graf. I love the pictures from WW1 in the navy uniform.

    But he wasn't on the Marinefliegertruppe during WW1.

     

    Attached the service record of him from Ehrenrangliste der Marine

     

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    Posted (edited)
    6 hours ago, VtwinVince said:

    Interesting to see Kemnade in that photo.

     

    Dr. Kemnade was also there for the 50th anniversary (Abiturjahrgang 1914, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Gymnasium Osnabrück). 

    Goldene Abiturienten zu Ostern 1964, u. a. mit Adolf Pirmann.jpg

    Edited by Deutschritter
    • 4 months later...
    Posted

    As last post of this year, I want to post this nice MP.

     

    It belongs to Flugmechanikermaat Bernhard Friedrich Wilhelm Sobol

    From Jun. - Sep. 1915 at Flieger-Ersatz-Abteilung 6.

    Changed to the Navy on Oct. 1915 and served at SFS Holtenau.

    Mar. - Aug. 1916 with the Flieger-Abteilung Xanthi.

    This unit was a combined Army and Navy flying unit before the Army left Xanthi.

    The signature of Hptm (Army) Hans Arndt who led the unit until Sep. 1916.

     

    Happy New Year

    Alex

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    • 4 months later...
    Posted

    It is getting quiet on this thread.
    Are you all on Ebay spotting the fakes 🙂

     

    Where are all the nice German Navy Aviation items?

     

    Here is a small group of Fl.Mech.Ob.Gst. Rudolf Bornemann who served with SFS Chanak. This is the first document for the "Eiserne Halbmond" to a member of the German navy aviation service I ever seen. A small piece of paper but a gem for me.

     

     

    Fl.Mech.Ob.Gst. Rudolf Bornemann.jpg

    Posted

    Good Morning and great item!! Only the second I’ve seen! Back in the day, I bought a group from Detlev to a pilot who fought in Palestine. Had the large folio award document for the TWM but he was an army pilot. Had his award documents for the EK2 and pilot badge as well. Unfortunately no images still. Nice find!! Congratulations!!

    Posted

    Almost forgot! When Rick Research looked into the group I had he said my guy was one of the pilots you saw zooming over the dunes as depicted in Lawrence of Arabia! Can still see his portrait in my mind with his EK, Pilot Badge and sporting a nifty moustache!! lol!

    Posted
    3 hours ago, jaba1914 said:

    It's a pitty that you don't save any pictures.

     

    KR
    Alex

    Hi Alex, I had a massive photo archive but lost the whole thing. Literally thousands of pieces and I had images of everything and now it’s all gone!!

    • 3 weeks later...
    Posted

    Fl.Ob.Mt.(B) Paul Krauthoff at SFS Flandern 1. This picture was taken on 1918 after he was awarded the Eisernen Halbmond for his service at SFS Varna.

     

    He wear the cross on the wrong side.

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