Chris Boonzaier

Very nice! I know you have been looking for one for some time.

Thanks Bernhard! This guy was signing in the same offive... also without rank.... Von ?anten ?

Hi Uwe, thanks ! all the best Chris

Hi Glenn, thanks a million... I am back on course on the EK Document project and can use all the help I can get ;-)

Does anyone see where the error is? :-) http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/German-original-Leibstandarte-death-card-iron-cross-medal-winter-medal-in-box-/151898349323?hash=item235dd8df0b%3Ag%3A8kIAAOSwHQ9WWMB7 Its pretty basic....

Hi Glenn, Thanks! He looks like a Kawelmacher somehow... Appretiate the info. Still cannot figure out how he can be Präsident in a Military unit? Was he Reichswehr or Wehrmacht Generalmajor?

Unfortunately no rank, but can anyone take a guess at the name? Thanks Chris

3 things I do not understand here... Who is the officer and why does he sign off as Präsident? What were German troops doing in Bukarest in late december 1918 Were they somehow involved in the Romanian-Hungarian war? Any help appreciated, Thanks Chris

Hi, I think they have been around for a few years. You need one? :-)

I am guessing the guys wearing the badge without a wound badge were photographed before the intruduction of the wound badge?

Love that Bavarian Moustache in the last pic!!

Hi, the medals are not his, just loop fillers, I wanted to get the tunic "right"... Here is a write up about 1914... another will eventually follow for 1918... http://www.kaiserscross.com/41815/329201.html

I am no expert, but looks nice to me, price does not seem bad either..

Its the only one I can find.... 1916 on the Somme and at verdun.... cant ask for more!!!

Hi, try starting with the 153rd Division.... https://23rdmanchester.wordpress.com/war-diary/ Use the search function for Magnan Best Chris https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/153e_division_d'infanterie_%28France%29

Hi, Do any polish rolls exist for WW2 and later awards, Would it be possible to check if a guy serving in the French army 39-45 as an NCO could have qualified for any of these? He was not in the polish resistence, just a regular grunt. Grand Officier du Mérite Polonais des Résistants en France n° 81 du 11/11/65 Chevalier de L’ordre National Polonais de la Virtuti Militari par décret du Ministre du 27/12/44 n° L.d.z.16979/TyN Mob Médaille de la Victoire Polonaise par brevet n° 9822 du 28/02/64 Médaille Commémorative de la Résistance Polonaise en France par brevet 8030 du 11/11/62 Croix de la Vaillance Polonaise par décret Ministériel L.8 du 20/02/45 Mérite Polonais avec Glaive d’Or par décret Ministériel du 27/02/44 Médaille Militaire Polonaise

For ages I have wondered about the loops for a 3rd Pinback on this tunic..... Now I think I have it? Hawickhorst (from the name) has an extremely strong Oldenburg connection.... From observing other groups, Oldenburg seems to have been pretty liberal in giving them to Oldenburgers in other regiments?

Thatr is a really nice cross. Silly question, but who was Knauer? I guess this is the standard maker?

Hi Glenn, thanks, yes indeed, a Medal bar identification would have been a long shot. It Languished on Northern german Dealers site for ages described as "Bavarian Officer".... Until a sharp eyed friend noticed the same photo in the Jäger history. Ironically it is a rarer bar than the same with an EK2 on it :-) Best Chrs

Some time ago a dealer had this large Photo on his site... a friend recognised the picture from the history of the 2nd Jäger, and pointed me in the right direction.... Albert Brendel, commander of the Aschaffenburger Jäger 1900-1903... he died before the war.

Hi, I did not bid on the 2nd one... the flag wiped me out for the year ;-)

Lets face it.... medals are like jewellery for men.... Women take pleasure in Rings, necklaces, etc... men can like beautiful things as well, and I bet in the 20s and 30s a few of them lived this out with nice versions of medals.

Time to get that site up again dave!!!

Here was its twin.... http://www.ebay.de/itm/WW1-Militaerpass-Wuerttemberg-Orden-OU-GFM-Erwin-Rommel-Westfront-Reims-Champagne-/311483644640?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&nma=true&si=NTSO54lilIkmv4YXcjT90%252BEAMSQ%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

Wow.... thats a pretty good way to start collecting !!! Welcome to a great hobby lilnuke!