Chris Boonzaier

Maybe they were superstitious and mentioning Armageddon would have made things end badly? :-)

From the same man as these... http://gmic.co.uk/index.php/topic/62887-bavarian-rank-buttons/ I assume these are Issue ones, private purchase ones, and apparently the smaller ones are for the blue one?

What I find interesting (amongst other things) is the entry that the day after the wars end he thought "Bollocks! " and left without permission...

And some decent entries, I.R. 82 and garde Grenadier Regt 1

This guy got bored with the Western front.... About as interesting as a list of battles could ever be.....

http://www.dublin-fusiliers.com/battaliions/1-batt/campaigns/1915-gallipoli.html They are included in this Dublin Fusiliers account...

This Bombardier certificate and letter from Bert Jones' sweetheart were mixed amongst a German soldiers group at a show... Not too sure how they got there...

At a show I found this amongst a grouping belonging to a german soldier. i dont know if this soldier was killed or captured, or if the german soldier found it going through abandoned goodies... or if the seller added it... but it is a rather muddy dirty item... The man was with the Munster fusiliers at gallipoli, which is apparently something very "interesting"...

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I think this may be all versions? The wearer was first in the bavarian Leib Regt then transfered to the 5th or 5th reserve regiment...

inside (Not all parts are there...)

More common is the Aluminium one that fits in the WW2 Mess tin... The LICO box had shoe brushes, clothes brushes, Toothbrush, Razor, soap, small candles, matches, sewing stuff etc.... All packed to waste no space and fitting into the mess tin, probably wrapped in a cloth...

A few more....

These out of an officers trunk... i am not sure if they were worn in place of gamaschen, or under regular boots... Tey are pretty wide, so I assume over trousers...

Hi, thats what I suspected... but for display they will have to do :-)

Just back from the Jewellers... it is indeed solid silver, other than the furniture at the back. Best Chris

Harry has added a sideshow article dealing with the 36th Sikhs in China 1914. The Fall of Tsingtao saw Germans, Sikhs and Japanese soldiers sharing the same battlefield. By cross referencing award documents from Sturm Bataillon Nr.5 with the History of Sturm Bataillon is was possible to pinpoint the action for which Adolf breuer was awarded his Iron Cross 1st class. Sturmbataillon Rohr in the fighting around Craonne. For those who have difficulty tracking the passgae of the different Jäger battalions during the war, THIS should be a big help.

Hi, looks non official, I would not pay too much... maybe EUR20-30 ?

The Gamaschen were one of the pairs from Feldwebel Biechl, 11th Company Bavarian Reserve Inf. Regt Nr. 2's kitbag. I have seem about 4-5 photos with this kind of Gamaschen (i.e. the reinforced edge a different shade to the wool...)

Today was a Tailor, Surgeon and Shoemaker.... I amputated the legs of a shop window figure, cut the sleeves off a swedish Surplas jacket and made this display....

The boots are from the firm Rieker in Baden Württemberg... They are private purchase and probably date from some time 1914-45... any advances on that theory?

Indeed, Bernhard pointed me in this direction, I meant to post it but got lost under my "todo" pile... http://des.genealogy.net/eingabe-verlustlisten/search

http://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/article/other/archives-first-world-war-2011-07-27.htm