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08-01-2019 02:54 AM
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Circuit advertisement
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Very Nice! It's great you can at the least put the face to the award. I take it that is him sporting the EK1 in that pic?
Excellent group of doc's and pic's with the award.
Semper Fi
Phil
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His name is as common in German as our "John Smith" is in English.
Nice presentation Todd
D.
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Well presented Todd.
Great to do the man honour with this little grouping.
Sure he would be proud! Well done.
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AZPhil
Very Nice! It's great you can at the least put the face to the award. I take it that is him sporting the EK1 in that pic?
Excellent group of doc's and pic's with the award.
Semper Fi
Phil
Thanks Phil. I would like to think that the EKI that came with his estate is the same one in the photo, but hard to be 100% sure. It likely is, as lower-ranking soldiers did not often buy extra copies of their awards like senior officers did. I will say that I cannot detect any differences between the actual EKI and the one in the photo that would show it not to be the same. He definitely had this EKI back home as it came with his estate and he definitely had the one in the photo back home because he sat for a studio portrait with it on.
Todd
Former U.S. Army Tanker.
"Best job I ever had."
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Ullergaard
Well presented Todd.
Great to do the man honour with this little grouping.
Sure he would be proud! Well done.
Thanks Brian! Yes, I like collecting, preserving, and displaying groupings to the "little guy" for a couple reasons. One is they are very affordable compared to "famous" soldiers like general officers or RKT's, etc. The other is that if a collector like me doesn't do it, who will? Who will preserve the memory of this soldier? In many cases it is no longer the family, sadly. These kinds of groupings are coming out of Germany as the grand kids or even great grand kids decide they would rather have a fist full of cash rather than preserve and honor the memory of their ancestor. My German ancestors came over to the U.S. before the TR, but I still feel a bit of sadness that many of the current holders of these small estates feel no desire to hang onto them. These are the (comparitively) "unknown soldiers" while the high ranking or highly decorated ones are covered in many pieces of literature. It's up to collectors like us to preserve the memories of soldiers like Fritz.
Todd
Former U.S. Army Tanker.
"Best job I ever had."
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