demir Posted April 29, 2016 Author Share Posted April 29, 2016 KuK Staff Major Hermann Pokorny Pilot Lt. Hellmuth Felmy EKI, EKII, Turkish Gold Liyakat with Swords, Silver İmtiyaz with swords, Silver Liyakat with Swords, Turkish War Medal and Turk and Grman Pilot Badges Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demir Posted April 29, 2016 Author Share Posted April 29, 2016 Pilot Leutnant Wendelmuth Mustafa Kemal Pasha, Enver Pasha,Cemal Pasha General Director of Inspectors of PTT Irfan Rıza bey (Later, Undersecretary of Ministry of Finance) (Sergeant) Salih Çavuş - WWI and War of Independence TWM and Mecidi Order Hasan Cemil bey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ixhs Posted September 18, 2016 Share Posted September 18, 2016 (edited) Got this a few days ago. The seller said, it was taken in Syrie (Syria). Iron cross, Liakat with Swords and Galipolli star. Some notes on the back. Is there anybody out there, who can read arabian? Thanks. I can read Le A. Djemal (french) Herm(ann) Kleeberg or Klessberg le corps 20 Di. means Korps 20. Division Edited September 18, 2016 by ixhs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claudio Posted December 27, 2016 Share Posted December 27, 2016 A nice picture of Richard Falke... see also Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demir Posted January 19, 2017 Author Share Posted January 19, 2017 Oberst Karl Günste. Genstschef d. XX. Korps Hermann Freiherr Kövess von Kövessháza (30 March 1854 – 22 September 1924) was the final, and completely ceremonial, Commander-in-Chief of the Austro-Hungarian Army. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bayern Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 On 21/9/2013 at 06:02, demir said: Ludwig III of Bavaria Its not Ludwig is his brother Leopold von Bayern . Demir : The kuk naval officer is german during the third reich he is not a line officer he is a beamte . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndresT Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demir Posted October 26, 2017 Author Share Posted October 26, 2017 (edited) General Exzellenz Felix Graf von Bothmer (10.12.1852 – 18.3.1937) in Narajow, his Chief of Staff on his left. Colonel Ismet (Inönü) during the Independence War. (2nd President of the Republic) Hans Humann with his sister. Naval Attache at the German Embassy during the WWI and a very close friend of Enver Pasha. Edited October 26, 2017 by demir Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demir Posted December 10, 2017 Author Share Posted December 10, 2017 A German Pilot with the Turkish War Medal, EKI and German Pilot badge. Also an unidentified baged with propellers? Any information on this badge? Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccj Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 Interesting variation of the Turkish pilot badge. I’ve never seen one like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bayern Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 Looks as if the german offizierstellvertreter had added a pair of badges of his own to the turkish pilot badge Apart , he is wearing a kunftige friedensuniform .coloured collar and cuffs , bright plain buttons and bright lace . perhaps the photo is of postwar era Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccj Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 It almost has a Bulgarian look the the crest at the top of the badge. It’s a unique badge for sure... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G. Eden Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 Great to see all these pictures! Sailor S.M.S. Goeben Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demir Posted February 2, 2018 Author Share Posted February 2, 2018 Submarine commander Max Valentiner who transferred Turks to Libya during Turkish-Italian War 1911-1912 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demir Posted February 2, 2018 Author Share Posted February 2, 2018 Sergeant Ali (Güner) 1920-1924 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demir Posted June 1, 2018 Author Share Posted June 1, 2018 (edited) An Ukranian awarded TWM: Osip Ivanovich Buchshivan (born June 1, 1890, Verkhovyna, Ivano-Frankivsk region - † December 8, 1937, Leningrad, USSR) - a Ukrainian soldier. A hundred Ukrainian Sich Riflemen, later Commander of the Legion of the USS. Otaman UGA Birth of June 1, 1890 Zhabye, Kosiv district, the Kingdom of Galicia and Volodymyr, Austria-Hungary, Austria-Hungary Death December 8, 1937 (47 years) Leningrad, Russian RFSR, USSR USSR USS membership kokarda.svg USS ZUNR coa.svg UHA Party Communist Party of the Soviet Union Title - OF-2 USR Hauptmann.svg Sotnik (hauptman), Ataman UGA Wars / Battles First World War Awards Medal of Courage (Austro-Hungary) Memorial Cross of 1912-1913 years Iron Cross 1 st class Gallipoli Star Life Born June 1, 1890 in the village of Zhabie, Kosiv district of Galicia, at the time of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Graduate of Kolomyia Gymnasium, student of Lviv Polytechnic. In the Legion, the USS was from August 1914: he was commander of hundreds of USS legions, in 1918 he headed this legion, and from December 1918 - the commander of the East group, the 1st brigade UCS UGA. On May 29, 1915, in Lisovychi, in the Stryj region, he was wounded and he fell into Russian captivity. From Siberia, where he served exile, fled through Persia, fought in Mesopotamia on the side of the states of the central bloc. For bravery, he was awarded the German Iron Cross and the Turkish Crescent. At the end of 1916 he returned to the infantry formation, where he again headed a hundred, in the autumn of 1918 he was elected as the commanding officer of the Legion of the USS. He took an active part in the Ukrainian-Polish war of 1918-1919, commanded (from the beginning of creation) the first USS brigade in the UHA, he was one of the developers of the plan of the Chortkiv oczenziw of 1919. After the transition of the Red Ukrainian Galician Army (CHUGA) in April 1920 on the side of the UPR Army remained in the service of the Red Army. In 1933, together with other Galicians who collaborated with the Bolsheviks, he was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in the VTT and exiled to the Solovetsky islands. Shot in Leningrad on December 8, 1937. From the shooting list of the second Solovetsky stage: Listed Osip Ivanovich, 1890, born in Galicia, Ukrainian, b. a member of the Communist Party of Western Ukraine, an employee. Judicial Troika under the Collegium of the GPU of the USSR on September 23, 1933 was sentenced under Art. 54-10-11 of the Criminal Code of the USSR for 10 years of ITL. Served a sentence in Solovetsky prison. Special troika of the UNKVD LO dated November 25, 1937, sentenced under Art. 58-10-11 of the Criminal Code of the USSR of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to the highest degree of punishment. Shot dead in Leningrad on December 8, 1937 Rehabilitated in 1959. https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Букшований_Осип_Іванович Edited June 1, 2018 by demir Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demir Posted October 20, 2018 Author Share Posted October 20, 2018 Bulgarian Prince Cyrill and his delegation. At the left the Ottoman Chief of Protocol Fuad Saffet Bey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graham Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2082267 Officer Alfred Eger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BalkanCollector Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 Great photos! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex K Posted August 24, 2019 Share Posted August 24, 2019 (edited) On 15/07/2013 at 10:54, JapanX said: Unknown cavalier The unknown Cavalier is none other than Rudolf Hoess, the commandant of KZ Auschwitz, the man next to him, Richard Baer, his successor, in the following image, Hoess is standing with Josef Mengele to his right, and Josef Kramer to his left, commandant of, amongst other places Belsen Kz, not a bunch of nice guys really, the images come from "The Auschwitz Album" Edited August 24, 2019 by Alex K Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1812 Overture Posted September 2, 2019 Share Posted September 2, 2019 Does anyone want to tell me why some Gallipoli stars are wearing the wrong direction? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bayern Posted September 8, 2019 Share Posted September 8, 2019 On 02/02/2018 at 08:53, demir said: Sergeant Ali (Güner) 1920-1924 The man portrayed is an officer, note his shoulder boards of the near square type,his riding boots and the swordknot on the bayonet On 02/09/2019 at 04:18, 1812 Overture said: Does anyone want to tell me why some Gallipoli stars are wearing the wrong direction? Austro hungarian Chaplain ,with rank equivalent to captain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Danner Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 From the Württemberg Archives, Gerold von Gleich. I find it interesting that he is wearing a Greek order while in the uniform of an Ottoman major general (Mirliva). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bayern Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 Gerold von Gleich 1869 1938, was a Wurtembergian Army officer. in 1912 he was attached to the Greek Army High Command during the First Balkan War .In February of 1916 was selected to go to Turkey . he bears the German rank of Oberst.destinated to Baghdad he served as Chief of Staff of Marshall von der Goltz with the Turkish rank of Mirliva. In 1916 there was no war between Greece and Turkey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demir Posted October 8, 2019 Author Share Posted October 8, 2019 Oberst Gunze Kuk XIV ArmyCorps Chief of Staff Galicia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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