Chris Boonzaier

There is no logical reason why the Saudi Medal is not mounted, and the one with the group never was. The things were handed out, and by the next Parade or Guard you HAD to have it mounted. No questions, no excuses. It is possible that he was transfered to Djibouti or Guyane and missed UNPROFOR, but my gut feeling says this was a bar of 6 awarded to a Support unit and that the bars on the Defence National were changed to sexy it up. Maybe the original bar on the DN was "Soutien des forces aériennes" or "Service des essences" where a "Moyen Orient" without the Gulf war bars was possible... and that was removed and the Legion bar added. Sorry, I am not an Expert, but for Legion bars 1990-95 I think I have a very good feeling for kosher, nor kosher... End of 94 you should see a bit of wear on the medals... and the Kuwaiti medal was not yet awarded, just the Saudi.... check the condition on the top bar, all the medals brand new.... Check out the condition here.... this is "Normal wear", the finish to the Outre Mer and DN suffer pretty fast... the ones on the top bar are fresh out of the box...

​I looked at it and did not see anything I understand to be relevant to the subject, so I ignore it ;-)

Hi, but not as a Legionnaire, especially not Legion Infantry. All the Infantry Elements involved in Daguet recieved the Gulf War medals, and no Legionnaires were involved in Provide comfort. Here is my bar... the SAudi Medal was awarded pretty soon after the Gulf, the Kuweit one sometime after 1994 (I was already Civilian by then) . The Infantry bar is also a bit problematic... usually the Legion infantry does not wear the Infantry bar. Best Chris

Thats the ones... then there is just the issue of the Defense National and why it is not gold. Unusual, but there is maybe an explanation.

Hi, the bar was not official to the UNO but the medal was issued with the bar and I must check when I get home but I think a Legionnaires records had the bar entered in his Livret. best Chris

Hi Fancois, sorry ​not possible... Moyenne Orient is only for Operation Daguet... he would HAVE to have had the Saudi and Kuweiti medals as well... And between the Gulf war and the Ivory Coast bar there are 13 Years... so he would HAVE to have the Defense National in Gold... (10 Years service and 800 points being the criteria)... also the Defense National would have to have the "Missions d'assistance extérieure" bar.

Haha... thats a bit of history!! Can have more fun with a medal like that than an unattributed MC!

Fantastic badge! I assume for veterans of the unit?

For me seeing the suffering of the kids in the areas under their control is the most disturbing thing.... but when we see everything else they destroy, is there any reason to believe monuments would be spared? :-( Especially when they actively destroy Muslim Mosques etc as well.....

Sorry, meant sheldon... its an absolute must have! :-)

Hi, when you figure that German stuff is mainly collected in Western countries... and the modern Generation is not really that interested in WW1 and WW2... you have to be a real Die Hard to think the stuff will hold its value over the next 20 years.... Added to that... the changing demographics in Western Europe and North America.... Lower caucasian birth rate and higher immigration, means that pretty rapidly the % of the population that has any connection to this stiff dwindels... and anyone who does not see that has his head in the sand ;-)

Fascinating...!!! Here are a couple more articles... http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/401551

Jack Sheldoms book about the Germans on the Somme is a must... will see if I have any award docs...

The interpretations are very loose.... "Upright and strait ahead!"

"Good nature has its limits"

The 26th Würtem. Div was there... this set of Poscards from the RIR 119 are a bit of a rarity.... "If it hast to be, then really dirty/Uncouth! "

Hi, thats possible, witout knowing I would guess he served 92 till 97 or something like that....

Hi, Its not possible.... He would be missing the Saudi and Kuwaiti medals he would have with the "Moyen Orient" bar.... and to have served from the Gulf to the Ivory coast he would have had to be in for over 13 years.... and would have usually had the Defense National in Gold I think?.... Also he would have had to have the Overseas assistence bar on the Defence national....

Hi, wollte gerade ein Bild posten, in der Tat gibt es metalische Bandspangen Auflagen für Polizei Dienstauszeichnungen.

Von Tammen is a killer job!!!

Hi Guys... I think paper is safer than many awards... the aging on these is not that great, the paper too thick, the 10th Division had 4 or so different documents over a period of 2.5 years ... this one was not around in 1916... Both are not great prints of original documents... another thing that gives them away... many of the (thank god relatively few) fakers trip themself up on details (Which I prefer not to go into) and there are a number of real headscratchers in the entries on these docs.... if it walks like a duck... and talks like a duck.... Even with a printing press it is a difficult thing to fake... variations of WW1 EK docs usually turn up with long periods between them... if a printer makes 50 of the same doc... already when a 2nd or 3rd pop up on ebay, it will be seen as suspicious.... more dangerous are artisanel documents, like the fake Sturm documents for the 6th garde Regiment a few years ago... they were individually produced, lots of time and effort... but still tripped up in the details.... There were more fishy documents, I assume from the same maker including to Machine Gun units and to the 4th U-Boot Flottile, but they are a drop in the ocean and probably required more effort than they were worth...

Here is a real one of the 10RD late version document.... http://www.kaiserscross.com/41815/332101.html

Its not the first time... documents arrive and I have soooo much going on it takes weeks, maybe even a few months before i really look at them.... 2 docs from a person on ebay called Zoblmaus.... both are fake... unfortunately 2 months passed before I looked.... No money back....

​Hi, Fantastic! But more likely Leutnant d. Res? Best Chris

​Indeed. but that does not change the fact that the pics here with assault rifles and sniper rifles are not Riot police.