Chris Boonzaier

OK, these are obviously not issue, they are tailor made, but in a more or less “military” style with the watch pocket and a lining material… I think it may be just the perfect trousers for a dummy of an early war Bavarian soldier with Cord Stiefelhose, Gamaschen and mountain boots? Of course, there is no way to date it 100%... it is old, does not have wear in any of the places riding pants do, so was not used for horse riding… but it could possibly be party or SA? Not sure if they wore stuff like that… But I think it has a very Bavarian WW1 look

OK... so now I had the fitting compass, a march calculator, and a single period thick pencil .... I needed to start on the 6 thin pencils... a couple of grey and some colored one.... lets look for grey.... from the thick brown one I had a WW1 era logo to go by for one maker... but none on ebay at the moment... plenty with later logs... but A.W. Faber was also around back then... I found some WW1 era mechanical pencil lead by them from the WW1 era... and 5 Grey pencils of varying ages.... one of which was their WW1 era log...

The trousers.... For some reason i cannot justify spending a grand on something that you only see 20 cm of ? ... up until now I have only had Torsos.... but after I got the boots and Gamaschen set up... I wanted a full figure... of course... pants were missing... so I went the copy route...

Hi, am still miles away from that. At the moment I am just trying to get an idea of how it would look on a page. I only have freeware for layout, so Fonts, Size, etc. etc are all Greek to me... so the idea is there... whether the layout etc will be the straw that breaks the camels back I know not... I hope not.... Some regiments like this will be rather short, 2-4 pages, some will be much more in depth and may run 10-20 pages... I am playing with the short ones before i jump into the "big" ones...

Wow... thats is a preeeeety nice cross!

No problems with that, I have had a couple of old beaters... I assume they were made in 1915

Some of you have known me for almost 2 decades now... how I have droned on and on about huge projects dealing with the iron cross award documents... I have made many false starts... but I think i have it mailed now ... I would like to do a Book on Bavarian Infantry and Jäger... and space permitting cover all the Alpenkorps units and maybe some Pionier units. Format will be Iron Cross award documents and Period Photos of men in the regiments... I will have some info to the units, most importantly regimental commanders as they usually signed the documents (Unless Generals did) ... some information about the men whose documents are shown. I chose the 8th BIR to do a sample page, It does not have the best documents, and the photos are not super sexy, but I needed a test unit ... does anyone have thoughts on the format? Tanks Chrs

Hi, thanks, I think it now has a place of honor ? Lets see some of your goodies!

You read my mind ... guess everyone becomes a dirty old man later in life... just the 25,, and 26mm made me doubt that...

Hmm... I was hoping it held something more exotic.....

Hmmm... just found 2 variations....

Hi, thanks, unfortunately missing from the group ?

WOW... those are some really off the beaten path kinda boards... Especially the forester ones!

Its Gavrilo Princip ... thinking to himself.... "hmmm... file for later use... there IS a way for a poor young man to make it into the history books!"

Bada BING

Oh yeah?

Just finished this weeks display..... somewhere in there there is a copy...... can anyone guess? ?

Some time ago I bought a belt to a Gebirgs Ersatz Abteilung man, I know there is more belonging to the man at the source... and was then lucky enough to get his map case... which is quite a bit wider than the usual one you see, and has space for much more... it is also not made with lelt loops... it can be worn on a strap, or have loops on the belt with it clips onto... I suppose it is made for mounted troops and a mapcase directly on the belt could be difficult... but noone had seen one... and although the source is 100%... I had a tiny bit of doubt/confusion.... until a friend sent me this picture.... This is it.... and now begins the journey....... The Pencil os original to the piece.... my goal is to add the "bits2 all period.... but many companies made things for decades... the logo always slowly changing... So I will look for pencils with exactly that logo, which is the one they used prewar... The compass fits perfectly... the march calculator finally has a home.... now I need a period eraser, ruler, pencils.... and nothing from the 30s or 40s.....

Just by coincidence....... bigpic

Thanks Uwe, You saved him from obscurity, DOB 18.12.1897 KIA 11.8.1917 in the 1st Jäger Bataillon

OK, where are the problems?

Hi Guys... Can anyone guess at Jakobs last name? R??penauer ? He could be a Bavarian Jäger

I think you may have it with the cavalry cuffs, I must see if Ludwig had any cav background. Fischer definitely did not and was only promoted from the ranks in mid 1916 so no cav connection. The collars is problematic, I do not see a cav connection... this looks like a standard collar IMHO. As far as the Borte goes, impossible to date with Borte... many Bavarian Photos show it was often not worn. The Ludwig pic is early 1915, the Fischer one mid 1916 at the earliest. The scallops on the pocket seem to have the Austrian style.

By Cooincidence, I tound this today... Gustav Fischer of the 8 bavarian Reserve Inf Regiment