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    Posted (edited)
    Deyr fé,
    deyja frændr,
    deyr sjálfr et sama;
    ek veit einn,
    at aldri deyr:
    dómr um dauðan hvern.
     
    Possesions die
    kinsmen die
    you yourself die;
    I know one thing
    which never dies:
    the judgment of a dead man's life.
     
    DU STIRBST – BESITZ STIRBT
    DIE SIPPEN STERBEN.
    EINZIG LEBT – WIR WISSEN ES –
    DER TOTEN TATENRUHM.
     
    Translations all vary slightly.......
     
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    Edited by Chris Boonzaier
    Posted

    Dave dug the date of the Württemberg award out for me.... Georg Jockers, württ. Verdienstkreuz on 20.12.1916 as a Feldwebel., 1.MGK/IR 126. (a Württemnerg Unit)

    I am tending to think he started the war in a baden unit.... Leib Grenadier Regt 109....

    Kork is a small town, The Verlustliste have 2 Georg Jockers from there listed, but it is a great leap of the imagination..... a Private in Leib Gren 109 wounded in late 1915, and a Vizefeldwebel injured in IR 126 in Late 1916....

    However, it is possible that he was in the IR126 all the time, but he WAS a Badener by birth, his hometown listed as Kork.

    Posted

    Hello Chris,

    I think he got his Baden awards because the

    8.Württembergisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 126 Großherzog Friedrich von Baden

    had Friedrich II. Großherzog von Baden as chief.

    Kind regards

    Andreas

    Posted

    Hi Andreas,

     

    Duh! I missed that one, thanks, I shoulda thought of that.

    Combine the fact that Großherzog Friedrich was chief, and Jockers was from baden, and you have it in a nutshell.

    I am working on getting the rest of the group, if it is still there...

    Posted

    So to recap... the small Gold Baden Verdienst Medal with Karl Friedrich Ribbon, 395 awards

    Württemberg Verdienstcross with swords, 2284 awards...

    For me quite a bit better than a knights cross ;-)

     

    Posted

    I am guessing this is him....

    Name:Georg Jockers
    Gender:Male
    Marital Status:Widowed
    Age:79
    Birth Date:10 Mai 1877 (10 May 1877)
    Death Date:30 Jun 1956
    Burial Date:3 Jul 1956
    Burial Place:Baden, Germany
    Spouse:Marie Baas
    FHL Film Number:1189651
    Posted

    silly question,

    Why would the owner place a wurttemberg medal between two Baden medals?

    Does wurrtemberg have a strange orders precedence?

    chuck 

    Posted

    Good question, it is listed in that order in his papers.... He must have been really old when he made the list, he was a service medal 1st and 2nd class listed, but the treuedienst cross on the bar....joc5a.thumb.jpg.5e472b84d47354126fc7c6b8

    Posted

    The Full info from Dave so far...

     

    "Georg Jockers, württ. Verdienstkreuz on 20.12.1916 as a Feldwebel., 1.MGK/IR 126.

    Also, there was a Sgt.-Fahnenschmied Jockers in IR 126 who got the Baden Silver Merit Medal on the Karl-Friedrich ribbon in March 1915.  Presumably the same guy."

     

    I am guessing he will be pretty elusive, have ordered the Regt History which should arrive this week.

     

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