Chris Boonzaier Posted April 29, 2016 Share Posted April 29, 2016 I managed to "save" this from the unwashed masses on ebay... Officer in Question was a Hauptmann der Reserve in the Bavarian Infanterie Leib regiment, Killed in Action in January 1915 with the 1st Bavarian Landwehr Regiment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Boonzaier Posted April 29, 2016 Author Share Posted April 29, 2016 His Doc Tag and glasses with spare lens... Calander, reciepts and coins... A photo taken un Brussels in 1914 The Church in Somme Py where his body was laid out, and the cemetary where he was buried..... His landwehr Dienstauszeichnung coc and its envelope... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chip Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 Very nice grouping. Personal items with a bit of history and a sad ending. Chip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Liontas Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 Amazing this was kept together for so long. Great find Chris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trajan Posted July 12, 2016 Share Posted July 12, 2016 I couldn't find him on the Kriegsgräbersuche so perhaps he has no known grave... There is a German subscription site via Ancestry with details of men who were in the Leib-regiment which might have more details - http://www.ancestry.de/cs/de/bayern-erster-weltkrieg-geschichte Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Boonzaier Posted July 12, 2016 Author Share Posted July 12, 2016 Just to show how small the world is... A good friend of mine is a Forester about 10km away from where I live.... the officer here was a head forester just 2-3 km from where HE lives. And it turns out the officer was the Grandfather of His class teacher when he was at school (Apparently a strict old teacher of the old school). I found it on Ebay, from a seller who lives a million miles away. By 1918 there was little or nothing left of Somme Py, I am guessing that the cemetary may have been destroyed during the war, unless he was one of the soldiers whose bodies were repatriated to Germany during the war... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ostprussenmann_new Posted July 12, 2016 Share Posted July 12, 2016 That is a crazy story Chris. Really neat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Boonzaier Posted November 5, 2016 Author Share Posted November 5, 2016 I have managed to get his large Ribbon bar... link to follow... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egorka Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 Very interesting! Thank you for sharing. May his soul rest in peace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Boonzaier Posted April 13, 2017 Author Share Posted April 13, 2017 In the middle of the frame I have some plant (I admit that sounds pretty ignorant... "some plant") from the cemetery at the church of Somme Py.... The Church today..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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