Unidentified Medals, Decorations, Badges in wear
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Are these 3 awards circled: Iron Cross 1st Class, U-Boat War Badge (1918) and War Merit Cross 1st Class with swords?
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Yes, almost certainly. EKI (1914) by the looks of it.Kriegsmarine Großadmiral wrote:Are these 3 awards circled: Iron Cross 1st Class, U-Boat War Badge (1918) and War Merit Cross 1st Class with swords?
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Thank you. It is the 1914 EKI. I would also be grateful if someone could help me ID the awards (medal bar) of these 2 Admirals.
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That won't be possible with any degree of accuracy based on those photographs.
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Can anyone help ID any medals? Except the EK I and II, they are obvious. The man in question is Vizeadmiral Paul Wülfing von Ditten.
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Any idea what this award might be? I know it is covered by his hand but someone might give an idea on what it could be? There weren't that many breast badges, and this one doesn't look like a cross.
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Does anyone know what this award is (the last medal, cross-shaped). Although similar it isn't the Cruz del Mérito Militar con distintivo rojo.
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Cartaphilus wrote:On the Axis Biographical Research Fórum we've seen this portrait of Generaloberst Wilhelm Adam? Does anyone know wich decoration appears next to the Grand Cross of the Merit Order of Hungary?
That would be the Chilean Order of Merit. It came as a breast star with a sash and the badge (which he's wearing around his neck)
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01.07.1942 Cholmschild !
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Thank you Oberstab
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Two wound badges, from both World Wars?
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Yes.
WW II at left, and WW I wound badge at right.
"It was much more common for servicemen "consolidate" their total number of wounds into the relevant class of the WW II award".
WW II at left, and WW I wound badge at right.
"It was much more common for servicemen "consolidate" their total number of wounds into the relevant class of the WW II award".
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Not just common, but regulation, actually.von thoma wrote:Yes.
WW II at left, and WW I wound badge at right.
"It was much more common for servicemen "consolidate" their total number of wounds into the relevant class of the WW II award".
Wounds from WW1 and the Spanish Civil war for which a Wound Badge had been awarded were always added to those from WW2 when determining the appropriate grade for the WW2 Wound Badge. This also applied to the special Wound Badge for 20 July 1944.
It was not permitted to wear two Wound Badges simultaneously (even if they were from different wars); only the highest grade was to be worn.
(But we all know that regulations were not always adhered to, and Generals in particular could always get away with a lot more than some humble private.)