Chris Boonzaier
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That is a nice set of medals! From where he is standing, I think the Flugel Adj with the spiked Helmet is probably that od Rupprecht... at this time von Malsen. And the fact that it is a Leiber uniform and seems to be corresponding medal bar... would you agree there are extremely good chances it is him? -
I think it is very possible that he is von Malsen... he seems to have the same medal combination... Leiber , The Scharpe and tinsel... and stands right behind Kronprinz Rupprecht.... I think this may be his flügel adjutant von Malsen! ... and could that be Leonrod to his right? 3 Generations of the crown with 3 Flügel Adjutant behind them?
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I know I am asking almost the impossible here.... this august 1914 pic... this may just be a guy whose tunic I have..... What could the large cross to our right be? He has a Romanina award.... Thanks, Chris He would have had MVO4Kl, PRLM, and the Romanina award at the time of the pic
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Hi, no problem, this is 13dble. you need to contact the BALE https://www.legion-etrangere.com/mdl/contact/index.php?titre=Contacts
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It is indeed 13eme DBLE, looks like an Indochine + Algeria vet I think he has a TOE, OM. Indo medal on the top row...
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Hi, yup, melt and make sinkers... hope you did not pay too much ?
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Hi Linas... these are unfortunately melters.....
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aaaahhhh... it is way easier than it seems.... we got rid of two old wardrobes... each had a thin sheet of wood as a back wall... I varnished one, painted the other, got the fancy strip of wood in the middle from a home depot... and there is the background....
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Duh ! That was AAAAALLLL for me! ? The 2 glasses came out of a garbage tip in old German positions in the Argonne... 100 years under the ground!
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Hi, does anyone have and Richthofen cuff titles for use in an article? Officers and Other ranks varians, maybe a Bundesluftwaffe? Thanks Chris
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Hi, the uniforms and blue cap are are from his auction, the rest just added to complete the photo.
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Thank you... I guess he must be in the band then?
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Initially I thought a Rückkehrer photo, but it is June 1918.... The text is ALMOST readable....
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That is indeed the look of a proud man....
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Leonrod drinking with himself......
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OK, to the above.... I found one in better condition for display... the original one still there of course.....
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Here is my corner of the den to display Blue tunics.... A Bavarian Jäger Private from Aschaffenburg, one pic has a large photo of a prewar Regt commander... the other a 1916 painting by an artist named Adalbert Hock... who had been a Jäger in Aschaffenburg decades before... you can see him in the black and white photo....
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Here is the main load of my Alpenkorps collection... Still some way to go... was very pleased to add the 14th Jäger straps....
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The funny thing is, I still drink Selters today! ... there are nudreds of different bottled water companies in germany... Selters was a pionier and back then even though there were other companies, "Selters" became a generic term for sparkling water.... Here are a couple of examples of the official bottles... the oldest and newest.....
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Hi, German. The Generic term back then was "Selters"
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Unfortunately not Bavarian... but probably one in 30 of these has a unit stamp... in this case a 1914 dated one to the RIR212... a Unit that made its bones in Belgium, in the Yser in 1914......
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Joining the thin blue line is this IKEA cabinet.... just EUR 57! So i can group all my Leib Regiment headgear.....
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Just behind the German lines at Verdun there was a soda water bottling plant.... a Number of years ago in a deep bunker at Verdun I found 3 bottles... still almost full, sealed with metal caps..... I put silicon over the caps to protect them... If I knew i was going to be hit by a buss in the morning, I would drink them, just for fun.....
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Indeed... they are the most comman for the other ranks
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Here are a set of Bavarian stamped M1908 Binos.... the dark case is stamped to my beloved 2 Bavarian Jäger Battalion....
