Chris Boonzaier

Just picked up the following card....

A nice Studio Photo.... Georg Eitel oder Ertel?

I would go as far as to say.... the cockades are Prussian... the Buttons Bavarian....

What is so intersting about this bavarian Unit?

An artilleryman I think.....

I am looking for the scan of a nice cover for the book... can anyone help? Thanks Chris

I think the nostelgia factor has a lot to do with it.... If you look at the Photos, Postcards and Feldpost.... maybe up to the very end there seems to still be a romantic view of the war.... then all the way into the 1930s, a nostelgic view.... I am sure jewellers in the 1920s and 30s were also engraving crosses that friends and family were handing out.... for a guy in uniform, an EK1 was like a Tiara or Necklace for a woman in an evening gown... Who would not have appretiated a nice domed, engraved cross from an od Comrade on his 35th Birthday.... WW2 came to an end... and noone was engraving crosses after 1945.... Also... Silver is a nice engraved gift.... a valuable gift.... WW" crosses were cheaper and utilitarian....

No Info, but little things like this bring big satisfaction when you find them!

Ooooohhhh.... he looks like he enjoyed the odd sausage ot five!!

The last one I had I stupidly sold years ago...... since then I was also a day late and a penny short.... This was an Ebay Buy it now from a non militaria guy..... sorry to say I missed his other item... a cased EK1 for EUR90 !! But this one fit the pocket quite well....

Hi, a sewing kit, Quite a few of the small buttons are marked "For Gentlemen" ;-)

Sergent Chef or "Chef" ist a rank used today between SGt and Adjudant.... Was not aware that Sgt Major was ever used...

Nowdays you can apply after 4 years... but you have to be rectified (have your original name back) and have your tax returns for the 4 years you have served so far.... You end up getting it after 5 years... Most guys screw up and apply to late, then they have to extend to get all the paperwork done before they leave....

Good question... looks like a one colur ribbon....

The Para wings are not French... I think French made for some North African country... 10 RCS is 10th Command and support Regiment 1 I think is 1st RIMA, (Marie Infantry)

I think the maker is " ? Mertin, Mainz" and is stamped 1915

Just picked up what seems to be a soldiers sewing kit filled with souvenier buttons.... there are all kinds including 2 WW1 Russian ones and 4 French colonial infantry.....

A nice one stamped to the 87th Ifantry Regiment in Mainz... Buckle made in mainz as well... just arrived in the post today...

The Bomb

An interesting article.... http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/01/30/the-littlest-boy/

I think Kanady is Polish for Canadian?

Hi, A GI could have picked it up anytime after they crossed the German Border... April 8th 1945 would be perfectly logical?

Ahhhhh.... A Gunners pet theme and excuse for not hearing the wife.... "Hearing loss" !! :-) "did you take out the trash?" "Sorry Honey, can't hear you.... all those 155s you know..."

It is very possible he picked it up in Germany, apparently many of the French rifles were issued to Volksturm etc in Southern Germany

Hi, A nice large teaspoon... :-)