Chris Boonzaier

Hmmmm, the French one had a range of 7200 feet "Due to its excellent barrel"......

Hi, Franz Josef Ophaus: Das Preußische Goldene Militär-Verdienst-Kreuz. Verlag Karl Siegismund. Berlin 1936. (Der pour le merite des deutschen Unteroffiziers)Klaus D. Patzwall (Hrsg.): Das preussische Goldene Militär-Verdienst-Kreuz. Militair-Verlag Patzwall. Norderstedt 1986. (Quellen und Darstellungen zur Geschichte der Orden und Ehrenzeichen, Band 2)Willi Geile: Das Preußische Goldene Militärverdienstkreuz. Seine Verleihungen aufgeschlüsselt nach Regimenten. (= Statistische Ausarbeitungen zur Phaleristik Deutschlands. Band II.) PHV. Offenbach 1997. ISBN 3-932543-01-7.I have the Ophaus book.... does Patzwall bring anything new to the table? Is it worth getting? I assume the Geile article is in a Journal that is not to be found anyway....

I have popsted this a few years ago, but found the photo againand it fascinates me... I have a few old EK2s missing the ring and loop.... but this is not a collection of rings that just happened to fall off..... someone removed them... and sold this on ebay.... - Was this the guy who seems to use EK2s to make frankenstein EK1 ? - Have these subsequently been bought to repair old EK2s, now resulting in EK2s from one maker with stamped rings from another... thereby giving us "variations" that we have never seen before?

Thats the one! I would never have thought these had such a range!

Hi Hauptie! Yup, looks like the same kind of thing, other than the Bofors like top feed on this one. The 37mm were used by the Germans, French and British in one form or another..... I think the one in the top photo may be some kind of Navy Version.

Hi, does anyone know what this is? Captured French?

Well, we are happy to see you here again... and its a nice looking cross... but some quaestions just dont have answers :-(

A Guardsman of the 5th Company... Gerhardt XXX

Hi, I just wonder why the badge squeezes the cloth together under the head of the grenade.... I dont want to be a stick in the mud, but it does not give me a tingly warm feeling... Best Chris

I think I like it very much.....

Hi, some Bullion fades like that? maybe it was gold?

A different Werfer....

Here is a nice lace shot......

Although not toooo clear... a scarce shot all the same....

To show the social value of this regiment... all Prussian Princes were named Leutnant in the regiment on their 10th birthdays... ' alt='' class='ipsImage' > ' alt='' class='ipsImage' >

Nice! How do we tell the difference between the different Foot Guard regiments? Any chance that Neumeyer or Flottmann are on the group Photo`? Best Chris

Hi, I think it probably was, but I do not find any proof that it still exists...

The artwork on many of the older ones is fantastic, the Argentinian one here for instance...

Hi, I had the 2 EK2 docs shown last.... then was lucky enough to get the Flottmann group.... then by chance found I had the Neumeyer group in a drawer, had forgotten that I had it .... so by default it now becomes one of the regiments i am going to actively keep an eye open for ;-)

2 More variations of the EK document

The Post WW1 Monument....

EK2

Unfortunately missing his other awards and EK2 document... Now Vizefeldwebel Neumeyer.... 9. Komp.

His EK1 etc

Known as the "vornehmstes Regiment der Christenheit" the 1. Garde-Regiment zu Fuss was part of the elite 1st garde Division.... Here are 2 groups to Vizefeldwebel in the III. Batl. Vizefeldwebel Wilhelm Flottmann