Chris Boonzaier

This dude has the strangest crown.....

These are the boards of an officer who transfered from the 130th to 132.... Check out the Majors board.... Grey underlay and the numbers painted grey.....

Karl Thomas, killed on the 14th April 1917

Another nice one....

Hi, Because it is only 5km away from where my wife was born :-) Here is a rare 2nd Jäger card, I have a small collection of them and have only seen this one once....

Here you go..... http://gmic.co.uk/topic/61018-bavarian-leib-regiment-association/#comment-574369

Very nice! Does it have an issue chin strap?

Wow...t he EK2 is nice, but the EK1 is a Babe!

Hi Dave, Its frustrating! 2 guys issued the same Helmet and both not capable of penning their name properly for future generations!!

I wonder if there were any uniform items that they simply stopped wearing during the war, as opposed to wearing them out?

An interesting thing, Kraus has a few sample boards showing the Feldmutze Cockades with the Splints on the back being the correct issue ones from 1916 onwards. Before that they had been for NCO Peaked caps, but in 1916 became standard for NCO and other ranks Peaked caps and Feldmütze. I had always assumed they were private issue rondels.

Damn... but at least I got the nice part ;-)

Damn... you are right.... back to the drawing board :-(

Thanks, here is the complete set... Lets see your MVK find!!

Here is a nice group with the Bravery Medal in the Militärpass and soldbuch

I found this today.... Singing group of former Leib Regiment members... ;-)

OK, this one is better :-)

This one today which I like very much... from an austrian dealer

This is a pretty cool one.... see the best entry?

Wow.... thats a rack!

I went out on a limb on ebay and picked up the following, thinking you could never know if the edelweiss had recently been added..... But, I am pretty happy with it.... the leather inside is so hard and fossilized, you cannot bend it at all, never mind bending it back to sew something through the lining. I cannot figure out how anyone could have sewn on the edelweiss other than many, many decades ago when the leather was still supple... If you tried to bend the leather to see the stiching, it would break right away....

Also not unknown... :-)

The stamp on the back is the same picture used on the regimental association certificate!

Hi, approx 3cm across

Hi, he seems to have started out as Cavalry, or artillery?