Foreign Orders & Medal Group

[Z19]

A buddy of mine just picked up this grouping of medals for one man from a 509th paratroopers family. The vet brought all these home and they are just as found a few weeks ago. All the ribbon bars and medal bars are done exactly the same as far as the wearing devices on the back...really neat group!! I bought this group with intentions of hanging onto them, but I may not. Question about the group I have is this... because of all the orders and such is there anyway to find out who they belonged too?? Thanks, Alex

[Z19]

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[scotty1418]

This looks a lot more like a collection than a grouping...

That being said, I'd be interested in a few pieces.

Some neat French items in there.

[peter monahan]

I agree - a collection of orders and medals, not something worn by one man. Even then, several of the French medals seem to me to have improbably high numbers of brevets on them.

[Tim B.]

I'd like to the see the reverse of these medal bars as some combinations don't seem to make sense.

I find it quite odd that a predominately French bar would have both WW1 Romanian and Greek War Cross on the same bar.

Tim

[Ir 143]

Medals.

Nice grouping, it's French and his allies or empire. The last on the ribon with blue an white ribon is the Medaille Coloniale. First with stars and leaves is the Croix de Guerre. Other with dragons looks to be colonail states in Indochina.

[peter monahan]

I think this is a made up 'group' done by someone who like the look of the medlas. As mentioned, sopme pretty improbable combinations and, for example, the stars and palm leaves on the one CdeG seem to indicate 3 Army level mentions in despatches/citations and several at the divisional level, which is quite a medal!

I'm thinking fantasy pieces, as suggested early on.

[Tim B.]

I would agree, a bunch of pretty medals put together and not worn by any "one" individual.

Maybe I'm wrong, but in all the mixed medal groupings I've seen thus far, I've never seen combinations of this magnitude.

On the French Croix de Guerre with multiple devices, it did happen and it's really hard to say without looking closely at the medals. Some added devices post-war and some got reribboned over time. Keep in mind that the French market exits for these even today.

Here's an older thread and you can see some other examples. Some of mine were taken off the original medal bars (not by me!).

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...=french+medals

Tim

[Ir 143]

French medals.

I would ading that the Croix de Guerre with many leaves and stars are often for aviators..

[RonR]

I would ading that the Croix de Guerre with many leaves and stars are often for aviators..

Another example......


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[RonR]

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Hello
our most famous pilot !!!!
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Clostermann
cordially
Didier

[scotty1418]

Didier, Clostermann is who I was thinking of with your comment too!

Ron, at least yours has the citations lined up in the right way. The ones in the originally discussed group are in opposite directions.