Very Ornate EK2 Award Document

[Dez H]

Here is a very ornate EK2 Award document, paddywhack asked me t post for him.

I will let paddy make any comments
Cheers






Also here is a picture of a nice imperial ribbon bar



The Reverse:


[ 21 December 2001: Message edited by: Dezz ]

[Rick Research]

Whoa! way too big, and fuzzy, but close enough!

A very nice EK document to Machine Gunner (Schu"tze) Johann Christoph Behrens of the 3rd Machine Gun Company, Reserve Infantry Regiment 88, dated 10 December 1917.

RIR 88 was in the 21st Reserve Division, recruited mainly from Hessen-Nassau.

having been chewed up at Verdun in 1916, the division was in a quiet sector of Champagne from July until November 1917 recovering from more severe losses in April and May against the French along the Aisne.

So this award was probably for action at the end of November or early Decmber south of the Bapaume-Cambrai road southeast of Bourlon.

This is a particularly impressive doument for one issued at battalion level.

The ribbon bar is: EK2 '14, Baden silver Merit Medal on the war (MKFVO) ribbon, WWI Honor CRoss X, Prussian Red Cross Medal, and Hungarian WWI Commemorative Medal. A nice bar and probably a frontline medic.

Ribbon bows--interesting one there with the orange, green, black, and yellow (yuck! see Carl evans's ribbon bar post for a similar one--Carl, your center stripe was once this ornage too) = saxe-Weimar 1918 "Merit Cross for Homeland Merit During the War Years 1914/18" a very unusual tall rounded end crucifix shaped cross with a pierced crown suspension, and a Prussian Red Cross ribbon.

[paddywhack]

as has been said before a picture says a thousand words,many many thanks to dezz for kindly posting these for me i owe you a pint
i bought this doc of a collecter friend for £20 irish!!!!!!!good investment,it looks like it was folded for a good number of years but now it is in hands and i plan to frame it,
thanks a million to rick once again you came out shining in the info debt
if you have any question please ask and sorry for not repling sooner but iv been out of the loop for a few days
once again many many thanks to the both of you

[Chris Boonzaier]

I have exactly the same doc, awarded May 17 ro someone in the RIR 80, was that the same division Rick ?

[Rick Research]

Chris--yup--it sure was! You guys' regiments were brigade mates.

[Dez H]

Greetings
paddywhack I have one question for you, can you give the dimensions of the EK doc, it looks A3 ish size.

Cheers

[paddywhack]

its about hafl the size of a a4 sheet of paper
cool so theres more then one of these surviving,is it common to get award docs like these,and could this doc have been awarded for the same action?