from Tannenberg to Palestina

[WNickel]

Hi friends,

a bar from a Musikmeister from Tannenberg - Lodz - Serbien - Mazedonien - Palestina.... a long way through WW1....

Werner

[Rick Research]

That's a strannnnnnnge combination of awards:

Bulgaria's highest (???) Bravery award... with a ??? Turkish Sanay Arts and Sciences Medal (that seems to have been what they handed out to "can't figure out what to bestow" characters).

What's the huge one with the bearded guy in the center, and the tiny one hidden between it and the Austrian Silver Merit Cross with Crown?

[WNickel]

Good morning Rick,

the huge medal with the bearded guy - bearded like you??? - is the bronze merit medal from Mecklenburg-Schwerin. The small medal after it is a unofficial wedding-medal from Brunswick.

I think it isn't the bulgarian bravery medal - it is the medal of merit, older head of King Ferdinand (Vernon's collector guide).

It's the only one bar with the bronze Allegemeinen Ehrenzeichen I have in my collection.

Werner

[Rick Research]

Ayuh, I know it's the Bulgarian "Order of Merit," but that was supposed to be their "highest" bravery award... got a photo of one, however, after peacetime orders in a photo I posted over in International recently.



I'd have expected a category of soldier like him to have gotten a Saint Alexander Merit Cross!!!