01-26-2003, 01:48 PM
Dear all
I would be interested to know what the "official" point of view was regarding the wearing of American (or British) awards in the cold war period. Col Galprin did not mention them in his 1950's documentation.
I see that a lot of Soviet Marshalls received American decorations. Did they stop wearing them. Tal, you are the the man for pictures!!!.
In the British army the order was given to take down decorations awarded by the now enemy. I have seen German awards given to South African troops for the 1906 Herero (German South West Africa) campaign been instructed to be removed in ww1. I have groups like this. In addition I have a ww1 Romanian award to a South African who was POW (at Tobruck) in ww2 and he did not receive instructions to remove the award in ww2. I don't think they knew waht it was. I have awards to a German officer in ww1 who moved to South Africa in the 1930's and joined up with the South Africans in ww2. I have seen pictures of him and he is not wearing his ww1 German awards in uniform, but I have seen pictures of him in the 1950s ( in civilian clothes) wearing his German awards and not his ww2 (British) awards. By the way at the end of ww2 he was given the choice of becoming a British citizen (for him or his family) or receiving an OBE. He chose naturalization ahead of the award. PITY otherwise he would have had an Iron cross etc and an OBE.
It would be interesting to Know what the Americans views was as well.
Kind regards
Munroe
I would be interested to know what the "official" point of view was regarding the wearing of American (or British) awards in the cold war period. Col Galprin did not mention them in his 1950's documentation.
I see that a lot of Soviet Marshalls received American decorations. Did they stop wearing them. Tal, you are the the man for pictures!!!.
In the British army the order was given to take down decorations awarded by the now enemy. I have seen German awards given to South African troops for the 1906 Herero (German South West Africa) campaign been instructed to be removed in ww1. I have groups like this. In addition I have a ww1 Romanian award to a South African who was POW (at Tobruck) in ww2 and he did not receive instructions to remove the award in ww2. I don't think they knew waht it was. I have awards to a German officer in ww1 who moved to South Africa in the 1930's and joined up with the South Africans in ww2. I have seen pictures of him and he is not wearing his ww1 German awards in uniform, but I have seen pictures of him in the 1950s ( in civilian clothes) wearing his German awards and not his ww2 (British) awards. By the way at the end of ww2 he was given the choice of becoming a British citizen (for him or his family) or receiving an OBE. He chose naturalization ahead of the award. PITY otherwise he would have had an Iron cross etc and an OBE.
It would be interesting to Know what the Americans views was as well.
Kind regards
Munroe
