Here's the latest from Down Under:
Jason's new bar is like my Frackspange posted elsewhere in having combat (Iron Cross) and war effort (Bavarian and Saxon) awards. The Austro-Hungarian Red Cross Decoration is a "peacetime" version without war wreath, which may indicate a rear area medical connection rather than a frontline one?
This guy was either a Petty Officer or NCO, retired before the war... or else he never remounted his bar afterwards with an XXV.
I wish we could find a DOCUMENT group for this sort of weird combat/rear group!
Jason's new bar is like my Frackspange posted elsewhere in having combat (Iron Cross) and war effort (Bavarian and Saxon) awards. The Austro-Hungarian Red Cross Decoration is a "peacetime" version without war wreath, which may indicate a rear area medical connection rather than a frontline one?
This guy was either a Petty Officer or NCO, retired before the war... or else he never remounted his bar afterwards with an XXV.
I wish we could find a DOCUMENT group for this sort of weird combat/rear group!