NavalMark Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 The Allgemeines Ehrenzeichen was never awarded with the black-white prussian "war-ribbon". Always with the white-red/orange ribbon of the red-eagle-order, but 35mm wide instead of 30mm for the RAO 4th class. Two very rare exceptions were made: - after the war against Denmark 1864 a few subaltern military officials, who served behind the front without any enemy contact, got the AEZ with a narrow black stripe between the two red/orange stripes - over the decades a few persons got the AEZ with the ribbon of the livesaving medal, in case of a second livesaving and if they received the livesaving medal before. Regards Markus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saschaw Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 (edited) On 25/03/2014 at 06:58, NavalMark said: The Allgemeines Ehrenzeichen was never awarded with the black-white prussian "war-ribbon". Despite their number is technically negligible, according to Eric C. Ludvigsen's counting of the Royal Prussian Ordens-Liste, there were indeed at least two(!) such medals awarded, one each in 1907 and in 1910. A few more could be possible, but I don't have further information. Also, I have no idea who received such an exception or why, but from the dates, it sounds like probably something in the colonies, maybe civilians (without a specific rank) taking up arms against "insubordinate" Natives?! Needless to say no one should pay any bonus for a single AEZ coming with a black and white ribbon, because that's just too easy to manipulate, but if a fitting document should ever surface, this might be rather interesting! Edited July 30, 2022 by saschaw 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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