Great photo of silver DK in wear!

[Jody]

RKs in wear

Hey Jody ... look closely ... it almost appears he has BOTH awards attached to the same ribbon !!?? That's why they are rather cock-eyed at his throat ... concur?

Hi Darrell,
I agree, they appear to be on the same length of ribbon. I guess he used the RK of the EK ribbon.

Regards,

Jody

[Darrell]

Hi Darrell,
I agree, they appear to be on the same length of ribbon. I guess he used the RK of the EK ribbon.

Regards,

Jody

Rommel used to wear his Pour le Merit and RK crossed together kinda like that as well. I would assume to keep them from swinging back and forth on each other causing undo damage?

[Edgar Estrada]

Jody,

that is not quite true.

The gold and silver version were both equal, i.e. the silver version does not rank below the gold version.

The gold version was awarded for bravery and the silver version was awarded to exeptional deeds in the military operations level. The military charater also becomes clear that -to be awarded the German Cross in Silver - it was a condition to have been already awarded the EK1 or the Spange des EK1 WW1.

Both awards are strictly military awards. The notion that the silver version is more a 'war effort award' in the sense of "production of goods or such" is wrong.

I also have no idea why the silver version is thought to be less than the gold version. It is just not true.

Dietrich

P.S.: The Admiral acts against regulations! If both versions are awarded, only the Gold one is to be worn!

Very interesting, thank you for all that information.

Could someone tell me what is GMIC? I would like to visite that web site.
I think Darrel said about it.

Thanks

Edgar

[Darrell]

Very interesting, thank you for all that information.

Could someone tell me what is GMIC? I would like to visite that web site.
I think Darrel said about it.

Thanks

Edgar

Hi Edgar .... everyone is welcome ....

http://www.gmic.co.uk/index.php?act=idx

[Edgar Estrada]

Thank you, I will take a good look for sure.

Edgar