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    My Favourite medal Bar (Baden + Württemberg)


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    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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    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.

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    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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