Anybody with any SPECIFIC named or imaged PERIOD examples of women getting Iron Crosses of any sort in World War One (and this thread WW1 only not earlier, please) please add them here.
Here is, regretably, a scan of a crappy 25+ year old xerox I made from a circa late March-April 1915 issue of the Berlin illustrated magazine "Die Woche." Number 13 (probably 1st week of April-- I didn't note that, alas) page 448. Other people on her page being noted for birthdays were born in late March, when I looked them up just now in the 1909 Orders Almanac.
"Frl. Lonny von Versen, wurde mit dem Eisernen Kreuz ausgezeichnet."
Notice that she has a "combatant" ribboned EK2 pinned to her overcoat flap. Whether this was a "combatant" or a "black-white" noncombatant I can't tell. I do not recognize her "uniform," and suspect from absence of Red Cross insignia might have been something like a Johanniter-Orden medical service (tip of white armband showing).
"Die Woche" started publishing photos of readers who had been decorated with the EK2, but when those became too common, they ran a page per issue of little portraits of EK1 recipients. There was often a time lag, and never any specific award date mentioned.
Here is, regretably, a scan of a crappy 25+ year old xerox I made from a circa late March-April 1915 issue of the Berlin illustrated magazine "Die Woche." Number 13 (probably 1st week of April-- I didn't note that, alas) page 448. Other people on her page being noted for birthdays were born in late March, when I looked them up just now in the 1909 Orders Almanac.
"Frl. Lonny von Versen, wurde mit dem Eisernen Kreuz ausgezeichnet."
Notice that she has a "combatant" ribboned EK2 pinned to her overcoat flap. Whether this was a "combatant" or a "black-white" noncombatant I can't tell. I do not recognize her "uniform," and suspect from absence of Red Cross insignia might have been something like a Johanniter-Orden medical service (tip of white armband showing).
"Die Woche" started publishing photos of readers who had been decorated with the EK2, but when those became too common, they ran a page per issue of little portraits of EK1 recipients. There was often a time lag, and never any specific award date mentioned.
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