Chris Boonzaier

I would guess the 1915 is not related to the award date?

I just looked... he was a Zahlmeister Anwärter in August 1914, then to a combat company as Offizier Stellvertreter in Marche 1915.. then a simple Company Führer up until March 1917, not even Compaqny Commander... but he gor the MVO4th class with swords and crown in Feb 1917... he had no position or task that merited the higher level?

I retract then... I did not know the name was also stamped in... ?

I think these are usually the highest level of desirability... but the lettering bothers me.... did they also stamp the name in? All the KMST I had (grand total of 2 ) had raised lettering, not stamped in? Like this one..... It may be a variation I do not know, but I would be weary....

Hi, I cant look it up at the moment, but it was Hans reichenhart of the 17BRIR... he was a Komp. Führer if I remember right... Not Crown material generally speaking

Hi, the auszug from the arhcives has EK2, EK1, MVK 2kl Swords and crown, MVO4 with swords then MVO 4 Swords and crown... KIA as a Lt d. Res... in May 1918. MVO4th with swords and crown mid 1917... no indication of why.

... maybe not a rarity... but the 1913 Shooting Prize on Fieldgrey is a treat you really see.... a man from the 1st Bavarian Inf Regiment.... I would guess maybe 300 men wore this badge, and for less than half a year?

HI, this Leutnant der Reserve first got a MVK 2nd class... then a MVO4th with swords... then MVO 4th with swords and crown... which is pretty unusual? I thought it was a Stuffen thing related to Rank? Why would a Lt d. Res get one with a crown? Was the rank thing put aside for exceptional bravery or something? Thanks Chris

I had a couple, if my memory serves me... could have been that one.... I will enquire.....

Fantastic! 12 BIR is a side collection of mine... the regiment I collect outside of the Alpenkorps.

Veeeery nice... I would say super rare because this would have been made for very short time, before the M15 boards were actually made! There is a single board to the 3rd Still on Weitzes site... I am tempted... but.... Funny thing, I have an open offer for any set of Bavarian fieldgrey boards. from 250 up... cant find any... (it is not only Bavarian... any good set of Fieldgrey is extremely difficult to find)

Ha! yup, they were up there... I held off for ages as they are missing prongs on one device... but I got it in a good deal so There was less burn than paying cash... ?

I read that the DOV had 50 sales points/branches, many in occupied countires, where officers could buy anything from awards to uniforms to map cases... just some info of interest.....

How big is it?

I had a look... on the photo it is not clear if they are shoes with Gamaschen, or a shoe like boot with built in Gamaschen. I have seen similar things before in studio photo. There are many combinations of civilian shoes and Gamaschen that seem to have been tolerated, at least unofficially. There is a pair very similar looking on german ebay at the moment.

Very possible, although I would have expected a mention of the NSKK on it... maybe a Party sponsored event?

Hard to say if it is an original EK box or a repurposed one....

After a long time thinking... I finally got these.... The one device has splints broken and is sewn on, but with an item like this you can overlook that....

I have wanted one of these late war ones for some time... then this turned up..... named to a FLAK NCO... he was only with the unit from mid 1918... but he WAS with the 2nd bavarian Jäger in 1916 and was wounded at Verdun! Best Chris

I must check the photo closlely at home.. am not sure if they are boots or shoes with leather gamaschen... as many were privately purchased there is a huuuuge array of variation... and as they were procudes for close on 100 years, there is little chance of dating Gamaschen. All th ebest Chris

Thanksfor the tip, I found him under Schüsslburner in ancestry.

I do not find and Schüslbrand or Schüselbrand... maybe this helps..

Hi definitely a Bavarian... The Aschinger Borte is of no use for dating pics... Only thing we can tell if a pic is not before that date... but after that date many men never wore it.... These folded back cuffs were on the bluse for all troops.... but at the outbreak of the war the Prussians had them for a while on their vereinfachte Rock... the Bavarian's had a vereinfachte Rock as well, but with a small cuff.... every now and then you see a Bavarian wearing a Prussian version... occasionally even vice versa... I suppose it depends if a unit had to get imaginative in organising ersatz uniforms while in a Prussian controlled area. I saw a pic of a Prussian in the Alpenkorps wearing a Bavarian one.... Pic 1 simplified bavarian cuff, pic 2 Simplified Prussian Rock and for the Bluse and Aschinger worn only by one of the three

The Aschinger Borte is not an issue, many Bavarians did not have it, the point is, this is the Prussian style cuff on the simplified Feldrock, not Bavarian Style Cuff. Of course, everyone had this cuff on the Bluse later... but unusual on a Bavarian Feldrock. The Photo is obviously from after the introduction of the Wound badge, but no way of telling if it was postwar or last months of the war

Am I right in seeing a member of the 12th Bavarian Inf Regiment wearing the Prussian version of a simplified Feldrock?