8-medal medal-bar - mostly Austrian but still nice

[JensF.]

A large medal-bar from a brave austrian "Bundesgenosse" who also got the EKII 1914. The Wound-Medal is a strange type in aluminium I never saw before.

These are the medals:

Silber Bravery Medal 2. Class, Kaiser Franz-Josef
Bronze Bravery Medal, Kaiser Karl
Karl-Troop-Cross
EKII 1914
Wound-Medal with ribbon for one wound in combat
Hungary WWI Commemorative
Tyrol WWI Commemorative
Hindenburg Cross

[JensF.]

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[Blitz]

Yeah, I think that it qualifies as beign nice..

[Dave Danner]

Are you certain your brave soul was Austrian? There is no Austrian WW1 Commemorative Medal and the aluminum construction of the Laeso Militi might be strange for that medal, but is seen on a few Hungarian medals. If the recipient never served in the Hungarian armed forces or civil service, and hence received no specifically Hungarian awards during the regency period, this could be the bar of a Hungarian veteran of the Austro-Hungarian Army.

[HeikoGrusdat]

I am not really shure that hungarian ww1 vets have got the 1934 Hindenburg cross...... all the austrian vets got it, at least in 1938 - I would vote for an austrian owner

Heiko

[Dave Danner]

The Honor Cross is last, so not in German precedence. The Iron Cross would be first, as well. So it can't be a post-1938 bar of an Austrian now a German.

For a post-Anschluss Austrian-German, the precedence would be: EK2, sTM, brTM, KTK, FEK, Laeso Militi, Hungarian and Tyrolean commeoratives.

[JensF.]

I think he was austrian and still felt like one even after the "Anschluß", so he still wears his decorations before the german ones and just added the Honor Cross at the end of his medal-bar. You can't see it in the pictures, but the Honor Cross was added later to an existing medal bar. The zink plate of the bar is shorter and seems to be made for seven decorations; it ends just under the beginning of the trifold ribbon of the Honor Cross.

[Dave Danner]

I could see that the FKE was added on. But it still lacks an Austrian Commemorative, a somewhat unusual omission for an Austrian, especially since it has the others.

[landsknechte]

It does look rather like the HKx was just jammed on the end of a bar that was already in existance. Look at the condition of that ribbon and the hook/grommet thing on the back as well - it appears to be in markedly better condition than the others.

--Chris