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World War Two / Re: Nazi "Iron Cross" recipients
« on: Saturday 10 March 18 12:14 GMT (UK) »
Thanks guys.....will check the links out!
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World War Two / Nazi "Iron Cross" recipients
« on: Monday 26 February 18 00:07 GMT (UK) »
Does anyone know if there is somewhere that lists ALL the recipients of the Iron Cross during the Second World War? (I've searched & can only find short lists).
My Grandfather was awarded the Iron Cross when he served with the Waffen SS and I am trying to find out why he was awarded this particular honour? From the photo we have of him during the war, it looks like he's wearing an Iron Cross Second Class ribband on his buttonhole.
Cheers
Geoff - Australia
My Grandfather was awarded the Iron Cross when he served with the Waffen SS and I am trying to find out why he was awarded this particular honour? From the photo we have of him during the war, it looks like he's wearing an Iron Cross Second Class ribband on his buttonhole.
Cheers
Geoff - Australia
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Armed Forces / Re: Need help identifying this ?WW1 uniform please?
« on: Monday 13 November 17 10:24 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for your help....
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Armed Forces / Re: Need help identifying this ?WW1 uniform please?
« on: Monday 13 November 17 10:03 GMT (UK) »
Do you know if theres a way to search for them online?
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Armed Forces / Re: Need help identifying this ?WW1 uniform please?
« on: Monday 13 November 17 02:14 GMT (UK) »
Interesting you mentioned Beck being a Volksdeutsch name! My Grandfather (surname Stegh) was living in Jarmina Yugolslavia and enlisted in the Waffen SS Mountain Infantry during WW2. He ended up being on the run after the war and met my Grandmother (Beck) in Austria where they married. They then emigrated to Australia and that's pretty much where my story starts!
I don't really have any information about my Grandmothers family (Beck) other than she being born in Mitrovic or similar (her father is wearing the uniform in the photo). Same goes for my Grandfather, all I have is a photo of him wearing a Waffen SS uniform with an Edelweiss patch on the arm, and bearing the rank equivalent to a Sergeant. I think his family may have been Danube-Swabians but not sure? I believe his father, and Great Grandfather were also born in Jarmina but again, I have very little info and don't know how to go about getting more?
I'd love to see his military records but I'm assuming they would have been destroyed during the war?
I was adopted at birth so my biological familes have been a big mystery for the last 44 years!!
Cheers
Geoff
Australia
I don't really have any information about my Grandmothers family (Beck) other than she being born in Mitrovic or similar (her father is wearing the uniform in the photo). Same goes for my Grandfather, all I have is a photo of him wearing a Waffen SS uniform with an Edelweiss patch on the arm, and bearing the rank equivalent to a Sergeant. I think his family may have been Danube-Swabians but not sure? I believe his father, and Great Grandfather were also born in Jarmina but again, I have very little info and don't know how to go about getting more?
I'd love to see his military records but I'm assuming they would have been destroyed during the war?I was adopted at birth so my biological familes have been a big mystery for the last 44 years!!
Cheers
Geoff
Australia
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Armed Forces / Re: Need help identifying this ?WW1 uniform please?
« on: Friday 03 November 17 12:54 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for the replies, will check them both out... 
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: German marriage certificate translation needed?
« on: Friday 03 November 17 12:53 GMT (UK) »
Hi Karen...Thankyou sooooooooooooooooooo much! You are AWESOME!
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / German marriage certificate translation needed?
« on: Thursday 02 November 17 04:13 GMT (UK) »
G'day...I'm wondering if anyone is able to translate the attached marriage certificate for me? It belongs to my grandparents and we are trying to figure out where they were married, and where they were born etc. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Armed Forces / Need help identifying this ?WW1 uniform please?
« on: Wednesday 01 November 17 22:27 GMT (UK) »
G'day...
Have just been given a photo of my Great Grandfather Beck who appears to be in some sort of military uniform but we can't find any records to confirm what country, or army he was involved with! Does anyone here recognise this uniform?
Details we know;
Surname: BECK
Country of birth: Her headstone reads "BORN YUGOSLAVIA" 1919
Date of photo: Unknown for sure but thinking around 1923 to 1927?
Other: My Grandmother (a child in this photo) was born in Europe in 1919. She gave us a ceramic dinner "plate" with an etching showing a town called "VELBERT AM OFFERS" inscribed on it (VELBERT is in the NW part of Germany). We always thought this was the town she was born in however we've always been under the impression she was Croatian/Yugoslavian so maybe she had lived in VELBERT at some stage? She did speak fluent German at home however this may have been because of WW2 (her husband, my Grandfather was Yugoslavian but was in the Nazi Waffen SS).
Any help would be appreciated.....
Thanks in advance!!
Have just been given a photo of my Great Grandfather Beck who appears to be in some sort of military uniform but we can't find any records to confirm what country, or army he was involved with! Does anyone here recognise this uniform?
Details we know;
Surname: BECK
Country of birth: Her headstone reads "BORN YUGOSLAVIA" 1919
Date of photo: Unknown for sure but thinking around 1923 to 1927?
Other: My Grandmother (a child in this photo) was born in Europe in 1919. She gave us a ceramic dinner "plate" with an etching showing a town called "VELBERT AM OFFERS" inscribed on it (VELBERT is in the NW part of Germany). We always thought this was the town she was born in however we've always been under the impression she was Croatian/Yugoslavian so maybe she had lived in VELBERT at some stage? She did speak fluent German at home however this may have been because of WW2 (her husband, my Grandfather was Yugoslavian but was in the Nazi Waffen SS).
Any help would be appreciated.....
Thanks in advance!!
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