Does anyone recognise this award?

[Jonathan M]

What award are several soldiers in this line up wearing? Could it be a foreign award?

Jonathan

[Adrian Stevenson]

Hi Jonathan, it is the Gau Honour badge.

http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=1836

Cheers, Ade.

[Jonathan M]

Cheers Ade

Jonathan

[Nigel N]

interesting photo jonathan, any idea where or when it was taken? you dont often see any gau badges worn by ordinary soldiers in the field!!

[Jonathan M]

the caption has it as August 41 and it was from the Ost Front section of the Archive.

[Nigel N]

looks like badges being awarded, i.a.b. maybe??????

[Jonathan M]

EKI's and II's judging from the following photos in the sequence

[Ludwig]

interesting photo jonathan, any idea where or when it was taken? you dont often see any gau badges worn by ordinary soldiers in the field!!

He is also wearing the Golden party badge, so he must be an old SA-man or something. You could hold a high rank in some party organization, and at the same time be an ordinary private soldier of the Wehrmacht.

[juoneen]

Maybe he messed up, and was sent to the russian front. Big dude anyway, looks like hes 6'6" tall.