My father's medals

[Korne]

My father's medals.

[all1knew]

What's his story?

[streptile]

My father's medals.

Are those medals he earned? Could we see a closer shot of the EK2 please, including the ribbon? Thank you in advance.

[Flemming]

I can't see anything then some red "x" where the pictures should be ?

/Flemming

[Thomas H]

My father's medals.

Here you go flemming, just follow the link.

[Hans Kondor]

Which nation's medals are these?

Here is the picture:

[redjames2004]

Two foreign medals between EK2 are Soviet Victory over Germany medal and a Romanian medal I couldnt identify. The three medals above EK2 are unidentified. They are not very familiar to me but could be Belgian judging the crowns on the medals. I think that I dont believe the story the guy who claimed that those medals was from his father but he may be a collector.

[andrewb]

Only 2 posts in 6 years, wow!! that must be a WAF record for the least amount of posts over that period of time.

I would bet that's his fathers medal collection. A couple of nice looking medals in that group.

Regards,
AB.

[morel5000]

The three upper medals are also from Rumania:

Left to right:

order of the star; war cross 1940-1945 and finally the order of the crown.

Browse this nice site for identification:

http://www.semon.fr/DECORATIONS_ROUMAINES.htm

He could be from Rumania, and took the EK as a souvenir? Probably its his collection as Andrew B said.

Best regards,

Michel

[Darrell]

..
I would bet that's his fathers medal collection.
Regards,
AB.

I would agree 100% with that. Collector's Collection ... Since he posts about once every 6 years we should know the answer by 2016

[Panthera Tigris]

I would agree 100% with that. Collector's Collection ... Since he posts about once every 6 years we should know the answer by 2016

Life has purpose again!

But a nice collection, though!

[streptile]

I'm not 100% sure that EK2 is good -- at least the ribbon looks bad, right?

[Dennis J]

I'm not 100% sure that EK2 is good -- at least the ribbon looks bad, right?

I can't see the cross very well but the ribbon looks fake as there are no loops at all.

Dennis J

[Korne]

Hello to all,

I haven't contributed with postings to this forum, but I am checking it from time to time. I am not a collector, but history is my main hobby.

These are the medals earned by my father while serving in WWII. He was a cavalry offcer in the Romanian Army. He had fought on the Eastern front and, after August 23rd 1944, against the German Army (when Romania switched sides). He was sent to Fallingbostel Panzerschule in late 1943 and trained in the use of german tanks - mostly modified Mark IIIs, long barrel. The famous Panzer Lehr Regiment was formed from the instructors of this training school.

He had won the Iron Cross 2nd class in May 1944 after the battle of Iassy (North-Eastern Romania), where he was wounded by a russian mortar shell, in April 1944. After recovering in a hospital in Bucharest, he was discharged. He re-signed again, at his own will, re-joined his unit and fought in Hungary and Czechoslovakia till the end of WWII. His unit ended the war in the Tatra mountains.

The medals are (from top left): The Order of the Romanian Star, Commemorative WWII medal (Romanian), Knight of The Romanian Crown.
Bottom left: Medal for Victory over Germany (Russian), Iron Cross 2nd class, Medal for Victory over Germany (Romanian).

All the medals are real, with the exception of the Iron Cross. He got rid of it after the secret police raided his house, in the mid 80's. He made and kept a copy of the award document, which can be found here. I've purchased a replica of the Iron Cross the year he passed away (2005) so the collection will be complete - he didn't care too much about these awards. My mother had "assembled" them on this small pillow for the funeral ceremonies.


All the best.

Korne

[Jeremy92]

Wow those are some very neat medals, and quite soem history!