Life saving medal ribbon bar ?

[Sammler]

This one looks to yellow to me to be a west wall. Can anyone also ID the ribbon before it ? It looks like it may have had a device on it at one point as well.

Thank you.

[Sammler]

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[luftkrieg]

The last ribbon is most likely the West Wall medal. These seem to vary in colour, and sometomes get confused with the Lifesaving medal ribbon. Not sure (maybe someone will correct me if i am wrong) but the Lifesaving medal would be higher up on the bar (?)

The ribbon before it is the Austrian 1914-1918 Commemorative medal. Should have swords on it.

Nice little "sew-on" bar you have there!

Pierce

[Sammler]

Luftkreig,

Thanks for the comments.I agree that the lifesaving medal would be higher, do you have any examples with a life saving medal? I would like to see one shown on a bar.

thanks again

[luftkrieg]

Luftkreig,

Thanks for the comments.I agree that the lifesaving medal would be higher, do you have any examples with a life saving medal? I would like to see one shown on a bar.

thanks again

Hi Sammler,

Afraid i dont have any...one of the few i dont have!

Kind regards
Pierce

[Hans Kondor]

Pierce has right, its a west wall.
Here is a thread about the lifesaving medal:
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...esaving&page=3
You can see its a higher award.

[Sammler]

Very Good information .

On the TR bar there it is after the Russian front or chosen to be placed there by the original owner.

It looks like the life saving ribbon was used for a west wall placement here.

Thank you

[luftkrieg]

Pierce has right, its a west wall.
Here is a thread about the lifesaving medal:
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...esaving&page=3
You can see its a higher award.

Thanks for this János- a good thread you have brought back up.

Pierce

[blutundehre]

Pierce has right, its a west wall.
Here is a thread about the lifesaving medal:
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...esaving&page=3
You can see its a higher award.

Hi Janos,
I agree the west wall varies in color,but is it just me or is this ribbon(on the end)
very yellow? Just seems to me it should be very light tan or darker.
BTW Doubting myself not your experience

[Sammler]

Hi Janos,
I agree the west wall varies in color,but is it just me or is this ribbon(on the end)
very yellow? Just seems to me it should be very light tan or darker.
BTW Doubting myself not your experience

I think this may be the case here.


"It looks like the life saving ribbon was used for a west wall placement here".

[blutundehre]

I think this may be the case here.


"It looks like the life saving ribbon was used for a west wall placement here".

To me this is very confusing. This is probably why I haven't started collecting these yet.

[Hans Kondor]

The whole ribbon bar is a bit strange.The swords, especially the KVK-s swords...
Perhaps its a 57er variant and as you said "It looks like the life saving ribbon was used for a west wall placement here" so, I don't know...

[luftkrieg]

The whole ribbon bar is a bit strange.The swords, especially the KVK-s swords...
Perhaps its a 57er variant and as you said "It looks like the life saving ribbon was used for a west wall placement here" so, I don't know...

The swords are a bit weird on the KVK, small and twisted looking but the rest of the bar looks good i think. Not sure if the West Wall medal was re-issued in 1957....

Has the owner black-lighted the ribbons?

Here is an example of small and slightly twisted swords on one of my bars (kvk ribbon).....they look similar to the small swords on the kvk ribbon above.

Kind regards
Pierce