Chris Boonzaier

Hi does anyone know of any possible avenues of research for this? The Malay Peninsula must have been mid 60s so he was not as old as i thought he was....

Very, very nice indeed!!!

Ahhh... you mean all in the pool of teams not fit to lick Bayern Münchens boots? :-)

Hi Andy, Thats fantastic! Thanks for all the information. Now i just need to find a tunic to match! All th ebest Chris

Hi, did you manage to find any info on WW1 Service? Best Chris

For dried goods (Tabacco?) etc...

For those who wanted to send Schnapps to their loved ones at the front.....

These are more interesting... people at hom could use these to make canned fruit, jam, meat, wahtever, and send them to the men at the front.... when you calculate how small these are... there was no supersizing back then.....

Here is one from the German Officesr Association shop.... size wise just right for 2 EK1 Boxes... obviously other things would have fit in as well

Here are some normal box variations....

I thought a new thread showing Feldpost Boxes and contents would be just right for easter....

Does anyone have anything to add ? I do....... :-)

Hi, I am at a bit of a loss, the one collar has a Bavarian button, the other a "4".... is this 4th Battalion 3rd Jäger Regiment? Thanks Chris

maybe also the flakabteilung Danzig badge?

thats the one!!

THATS what I read about the French one... bomb timer

I think the French aviators in WW1 had a similar device, am not sure what it was for. I saw one on a French forum ages ago.

I have seen a document to a woman once... cannot remember where.

They would need a central approval office... otherwise it will right away become a "Cheap change" award....

http://www.kaiserscross.com/41815/504501.html A small write up to the unit of the Godet pictured...

A math and science Teacher between the wars, Richard Wolf had fought as a Machine Gunner, then as a Machine Gun Officer in the 13th (Saxon) Jäger Battalion. His Iron Cross 1st Class (Godet) illustrates the account. For the account of the battalion and its machine guns on the Eastern Front please go HERE Harry adds to his Somaliland Saga, this time with the first part of an article describing the campaigning in the Region from 1905-1913 HERE

Very nice indeed... some of the best paper finds are forgotten, squirelled away between the pages of a book of an old veteran...

"but the epalettes suggest he continued to wear it post war."... seems a pretty big pair ! I was going to suggest a "little man" compley, but 5 Foot 10 Inces was Pretty big for back then....

"On 8 April 1945, Hans Oster, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Wilhelm Canaris, and other anti-Nazis were convicted and sentenced to death by an SS drumhead court-martial presided over by Otto Thorbeck. At dawn the next day, Oster, Bonhoeffer and Canaris were hanged in the Flossenbürg concentration camp. They were forced to strip naked before being taken to the gallows. The camp was liberated two weeks later by American forces." A page dedicated to hans Oster.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Oster His Reichswehr Shoulder Boards (Pips for the Captain Rank removed)

Hi, Maybe brought over by the occupation forces? Best Chris