• MvR showing his Pour le Mérite, Iron Cross 1st Class, Knight's Cross with Swords of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, Duke Carl Eduard Medal Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Austro-Hungarian Military Merit Cross. (picture source: Under the guns of the Red Baron, Norman Franks, Hal Giblin and Nigel McCrery)
  • picture source: General internet search
  • A postcard illustration published in the 1930s. (picture source: General internet search)
  • Alder magazine July 1939. (picture source: General internet search)

MvR receives ‘Pour le mérite’

Event ID: 154

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Appointment & medals
Deutsch
Der rote Kampfflieger von Rittmeister Manfred Freiherrn von Richthofen, 1917, 351.000 - 400.000, Verlag Ullstein & Co, Berlin-Wien

21 January 1917

50.1751787859427, 3.0030483257349845
Pronville

Source ID: 4

Der rote Kampfflieger von Rittmeister Manfred Freiherrn von Richthofen, 1917, 351.000 - 400.000, Verlag Ullstein & Co, Berlin-Wien p.  107 

“After two days – we were sitting comfortably at the Boelcke fighter squadron and celebrating my farewell – a telegram arrived from headquarters to say that Your Majesty had had the good grace to award me the Pour le mérite. Of course I was delighted. It was a plaster on the previous one. * I hadn’t imagined it would be as nice to lead a hunting squadron as it turned out to be in reality. I never dreamed that there would one day be a Richthofen fighter squadron.”

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