Vets wearing their 57ers!!!

[Tom B]

Have a very Merry Christmas Sepp !!!!! Your Good Friend, Tom

[Sepp45]

Have a very Merry Christmas Sepp !!!!! Your Good Friend, Tom

Thanks Tom! You too, my dear friend

[Sepp45]

Lucio Alvarez del Bosque, Spanish Blue Division veteran.

[Sepp45]

Teniente Don Ismael García Romeu

I see: CCC in Silver - EKII - EKI - Ost Medal - Wounde badge - KvK II - IAB

[Sepp45]

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[Tom B]

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Merry Christmas my friend ! Neat photo ! What is that ribbon on bottom (white with black stripes)??? at first I thought TDB, but there is no tank?? Tom

[Sepp45]

Guys.. are those his wartime Swords or just replacements?

[Sepp45]

Unknown OL holder!

(Photo posted by Steve on the War Relics Forum)

[Tom B]

Guys.. are those his wartime Swords or just replacements?

Hi Sepp ! can't tell much, but I think they look like replacements ?? Tom

[Tom B]

Unknown OL holder!

(Photo posted by Steve on the War Relics Forum)

Great looking items ! I just yesterday received an absolutely Beautiful early Knights cross from my dear old OdR contact ! sadly no provenance. Tom

[Sepp45]

Estonian veteran living in Australia

[Nigel N]

Another great photo Sepp!
Looks like it might have been taken at the Ulrichsberg gathering??
-Nigel

[Tony T-S]

Congrats Tom on the early RK. Nice to see the Estonian feels happy to wear his awards in AU and nice to see that the local RSL supports him in it. Is he wearing a Hindenburg Cross? Must have been a very young vet if he earned one of those.

ED: And is that an antipartisan badge in silver? I wonder if he was SS?

[Nigel N]

Hi Tony!
It is a Hindenburg cross, but hanging on a KVK2 ribbon!! My guess would be the ribbon is correct, the mini wrong, too young for a WW1 vet I think, as the photo, doesn't look particularly old??
Don't know if he is ex SS?, If it is taken at Ulrichsberg, there was always a big turnout of SS vets there, many were members of the Austrian SS vets association Kameradschaft IV
-Nigel

[Sepp45]

Another great photo Sepp!
Looks like it might have been taken at the Ulrichsberg gathering??
-Nigel

Most likely Nigel..

Congrats Tom on the early RK. Nice to see the Estonian feels happy to wear his awards in AU and nice to see that the local RSL supports him in it. Is he wearing a Hindenburg Cross? Must have been a very young vet if he earned one of those.

ED: And is that an antipartisan badge in silver? I wonder if he was SS?

Like well said by Nigel, the Hindenburg Cross could be wrongly added to his set of medals.

And about being SS, of course he was.. 20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Estonian), formed from the original 3rd Estonian SS Volunteer Brigade.