Military diplomas

I have four award certificates (that belonged to my grand-grandfather, military priest Ilie Deleanu):
- Rasplata muncii pentru biserica Cl. 1 (Medal for church labor, 1st class), 1921, signed by Octavian Goga
- WW1 Victory medal, 1923
- Order of the Crown, Knight, 1928, signed by I.G. Duca
- Medal of cultural merit, 2nd class, 1941, signed by king Mihai

I can post photos of any of them if anybody is interested.

I think it would be interesting to see the scans of all of them.

A pair of awards presented to 2nd Lt. res. Vasile Buzban of Flotila 1 bombardament .

Gen. Dénes





This post has been edited by Dénes on October 18, 2005 02:08 am

Some photos of my grand-grandfather documents. I don't have a scanner and the photos are not very good.

Award certificate for Medal of Cultural merit, 2nd class.

Award certificate for WW1 Victory Medal

Award certificate for "Rasplata muncii pentru biserica" Cl 1. (Medal for church labour, 1st class)

Award certificate for Order of the Crown. It is interesting because it's from the regency period (Mihai's first reign)

The last one, his veteran papers for WW1 and the 2nd Balkan War

Award certificate for the Order of the Crown of Romania with swords and Military Virtue ribbon belonging to 2nd Lt. Karl Heinz Kallher of the 54th Werfer Regiment.


Source: Internet auction

Updated the original post with the correct URLs

Septi, this certificate is very interesting. If I understand right, your grandfather was awarded the order in 1943, when he was prisoner in a Soviet camp.

When did he receive the actual order? Was it the 1943 model, or the 1944-type Michael the Brave Order with swords?

Unfortunately I cannot ask my grandfather as he passed away in May 2005. As far as I recall he was reportedly buried (in absentia) as his family was told he is dead (nobody knew he was taken prisoner after the Stalingrad battle). I suspect he received the Order when he came back from the soviet gulags (after Romania allied with the soviets).
I know the Order was the class III one. I'm not sure if it was with spades or not. The decoration itself (the metallic insignia) was confiscated from him later on by the communists. He managed to hide the actual decoration (the paper you see posted above) under a framed picture in his room (see it here: http://www.thelightcone.com/teodor/picture02.html ). He kept it hidden there for many years.
After the Romanian revolution he was given another insignia http://www.thelightcone.com/teodor/images/uniforma1.jpg along with the white cape. I'll put images with him wearing the cape as well on the forum of "Photos of Michael the Brave Order Romanian holders".

Septimiu

This post has been edited by septi on January 13, 2007 04:15 am

Dragos, the photo below shows him clearly wearing the Order of Michael the Brave, not the Order of Michael the Brave with Swords.


Originally posted in Photos of Michael the Brave Order Romanian holders