colonial medal bar

[Daniel Krause]

Hi,

I post this picture for a friend.

the combination is quite rare and we try to figure out the owner of this bar.

Best greetings

Daniel

[stogieman]

Super!

WowDaniel (und freund!) Very beautiful set and quite correct looking to me for a Colonial. Very nice!!

[Rick Research]

Back around February I was looking for this same combination (my "Ribbon Bar Pig" thread), with a bar that also had a Colonial Medal and a Zähringen Lion...

unfortunately I cannot find all my scribbly notes. There were at least a dozen officers with this "all Prussian" combination of a Crown Order 4thXs, Lifesaving, and Southwest Africa.

I could find six of them again quite easily enough, and excluded 4 for a variety of reasons, but even with this about 50% sample, there were still TWO officers that could have had this:

char. Major aD Willy Zedler of Feldart. Rgt 38, or

char. Major aD Goerke of Eisenbahn Regt. 3.

With the other officers that didn't turn up on a "quick" flipping of the 1914 Rangliste, there are probably about 6 possible owners of this bar. Unfortunately no published source lists what BARS were received with the various colonial Medals.

[Daniel Krause]

Thank You very much Rick,

my friend and me, we have also about about 6 or 7 possible owners, we will post them next week.


Best regards

Daniel

[Rick Research]

I checked the Hohenzollern HOX, Baden, and Bavarian award rolls, nothing for Goerke or Zedler. Sometimes it is possible to "knock out" possible owners by seeing if they had something else.

I would say the XXV Cross dates from 1920, not 1914--no Centenary Medal of March 1897--so this owner survived the war, anyway. That also eliminates some of the 1914 possibles, killed during the war.

[Daniel Krause]

Thanks Rick,

I fully agree with You. Unfortunately my friend has the Names at home, so I can post our possible owners next week.moremad

Best regards

Daniel

[Daniel Krause]

P.S. Rick, Your guess, the bar is made in the 20ies is right, it is not in prussian order, the long service cross would have the position in front of the southwestafrica- medal.

Best regards

Daniel