Imperial officers for identification

[Odulf]

Can any one please help to identify the next officers?

and this from Cassel, with a nice decorated chest

and this from Gross-Lichterfelde near Berlin

[dedehansen]

Nice photos Odulf, I like all the three. 

Number one is a von Below, but I´m not sure which one. 

Cheers
Andreas

[Glenn J]

Odulf,

6 hours ago, dedehansen said:

Nice photos Odulf, I like all the three. 

Number one is a von Below, but I´m not sure which one. 

Cheers
Andreas

Andreas is correct and in fact the later char. General der Infanterie Ernst v. Below as an Hauptmann and adjutant to Prinz Joachim Albrecht von Preußen around late 1903.

Regards

Glenn

[Odulf]

Thanks guys. So if I understand it, he is wearing the uniform of a Hauptmann of the Prussian General Staff, with aguilettes for Adjutant. Do you have any info about his decorations?

Any chance to identify the other two officers?

[dedehansen]

von Belows decorations:

Roter Adler Orden 4th class

Centenarmedaille 

Russian St. Annen Orden 

Siam weißer Elefanten - Orden 4th class

Regards
Andreas

[Glenn J]

Odulf,

Ernst v. Below is wearing the regimental uniform of Garde-Grenadier-Regiment Nr. 4 with an adjutant's aiguillette. The officer from Cassel is the later char. Generalmajor Hermann Augustin as a Premier-Lieitenant in Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 83 around 1879/1880. 

Regards

Glenn

[Glenn J]

I think the last one will be a bit trickier. He appears to be a Feldwebel-Lieutenant on the staff of the cadet school at Groß-Lichterfelde around 1880. As such he is not shown in the Prussian Ranglisten.

Regards

Glenn

[speedytop]

Ernst von Below, first picture:

Rother Adlerorden 4. Klasse (1902)

Centenarmedaille (1897)

Russland St. Annen-Orden 4. Klasse (1900)

Siam Orden des Weissen Elefanten IV. Klasse (1903)

 

A later picture from 1910 show him as Major and commander of the Seebataillon II, with some more decorations:

Sachsen-Altenburg Herzoglich Sachsen-Ernestinischer Hausorden Komturkreuz 2. Klasse (1905)

Rußland St. Stanislaus-Orden 2. Klasse (1905)

Schaumburg-Lippe Hausorden Offiziers-Ehrenkreuz (1904)

Preußen Erinnerungszeichen zu silbernen Hochzeit (1906)

Roter Adlerorden 4. Klasse (1902)

Preußen Dienstauszeichnungskreuz 25 Jahre (1906)

Centenarmedaille (1897)

Baden Orden vom Zähringer Löwen Ritterkreuz 1. Klasse (1904)

Sachsen-Altenburg Medaille zum 50jährigen Regierungsjubiläum (1903)

Russland St. Annen-Orden 4. Klasse (1900)

Siam Orden des Weissen Elefanten IV. Klasse (1903)

 

And here is a later medal bar of him, additional with:

Preußen Kronenorden 3. Klasse (1910); only the ribbon, the cross was removed

Oldenburg Haus- und Verdienstorden des Herzogs Peter Friedrich Ludwig Ritterkreuz 1. Klasse (1909),

and the Sachsen-Altenburg medal is also missing.

Uwe

Edited June 13, 2022 by speedytop