Chris Boonzaier

Hi, you must hit the "reply to this topic" at the top of the thread...

Hi, I think most cards/Pics with a number in the corner could be ordered, at least by the guys in the unit. Best Chris

Hi Brian, small world,, indeed, they MUST have known each other.

Wow, those are fantastic. I have walked that area a number of times.... really awesom photos!

Please post the stamps and grips, I have not seen a 14 stamped one yet.

Thanks :-)

Any idea what he is wearing? Photo taken in Waldenburg in Schlesien.... Thanks Chris

hmmm... I hate to ask... what are they????

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Was just photographing this... http://www.kaiserscross.com/40047/75001.html An artillery tunic that is almost as good as an infantrymans... I love it to bits!!

I would normally not have bothered as there was no name in it, but it was just so....NICE! Comes from the collection of a guy who has the best MG collection in the world probably, museums included!

This came from Alsace with a pair of bright boards. I have them still, but added a subdued pair.... Am i right in thinking this is an issue M15, adapted for an officer? It is really heavy like an issue tunic, not like the thinner wool on my other officers.....

I got 10 framed EK docs from the seller... his jaw fell when I said "please remove frames and mail them without" :-)

Did there used to be an earlier different version? For some reason i seem to remember having an age old one.....

And the ribbons are 10 times rarer than the medals!!

Sorry to appear dense... but it this one right? Das alte brandenburgische Adelsgeschlecht erscheint im Jahr 1220 erstmals urkundlich mit Heydenricus de Wolv und beginnt die direkte Stammreihe mit dem Ritter Albrecht Wulff, urkundlich 1333 erwähnt, Gutsherr auf Tempelberg, dem heutigen Ortsteil von Steinhöfel. Kurfürstlich brandenburgische Adelsanerkennung am 20. Juni 1637 für das Gesamtgeschlecht. - Preußische Namen- und Wappenvereinigung mit denen der Grafen Küchmeister von Sternberg als „von Wulffen genannt Küchmeister von Sternberg“ am 12. August 1830 in Berlin für den späteren königlich preußischen Rittmeister Heinrich von Wulffen, Gutsherr auf Niederhoff (Landkreis Neidenburg, Ostpreußen), der drei Tage zuvor am 9. August 1830 die Letzte ihres Geschlechts, Luise Gräfin Küchmeister von Sternberg, geheiratet hatte.

Hi, thanks guys, so he would actually have had the coat of arms as pictured here? http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wulffen_%28Adelsgeschlecht%29 The last info I have is a 1916 EK1... does anyone know what became of him? I guess no big career with Knights cross in 1943.....

Hi Les, You may want to post this in the japanese section as well, best Chris

Here is a question.... how did he qualify for the resistance medals? From his list of battles he was fighting a conventional war from 39 to 45?

Hi, Would it have been possible for a French NCO to have recieved the following Polish Medals? Grand Officier du Merite Polonais des Resistants en France n? 81 du 11/11/65 Chevalier de L'ordre National Polonais de la Virtuti Militari par d?cret du Ministre du 27/12/44 n? Medaille de la Victoire Polonaise par brevet n? 9822 du 28/02/64 Medaille Comm?morative de la R?sistance Polonaise en France par brevet 8030 du 11/11/62 Croix de la Vaillance Polonaise par d?cret Minist?riel L.8 du 20/02/45 Merite Polonais avec Glaive d'Or par decret Minist?riel du 27/02/44 Medaille Militaire Polonaise He may have been close to Polish troops in Italy? But only for a month.... Bjervik ( Norv?ge ) 13-05-40 Narvik ( Norv?ge ) 28-05-40 Keren ( Erythr?e ) 27-03-41 Massoua (Erythr?e ) 07-04-41 Damas ( Syrie ) 07-06-41 Bir Hackheim ( Lybie ) 17-05-42 El Alamein ( Lybie ) 22-10-42 Himelmat ( Lybie ) 23-10-42 Tobrook ( Lybie ) 28-10-42 Bizerte ( Tunisie ) 04-05-43 Tunis ( Tunisie ) 07-05-43 Djebel-Garci ( Tunisie ) 09-05-43 Ponte Corvo ( Italie ) 12-05-44 Monte Fencio ( Italie ) 19-05-44 Tivoly ( Italie ) 25-05-44 Rome ( Italie ) 04-06-44 Radicofani ( Italie ) 18-06-44 Toulon ( France ) 22-08-44 Lyon ( France ) 01-09-44 Autun ( France ) 08-09-44 Dijon ( France ) 13-09-44 Remouchamps ( France ) 26-10-44 C?te 1013 ( France ) 05-11-44 Belfort ( France ) 21-11-44 Ballon d?Alsace ( France ) 04-12-44 Abenheim ( Alsace ) 11-01-45 Ilhausern ( Alsace ) 23-01-45

I found (according to Wikipedia) three different von Wulffen nobility lines.... But cannot figure out which one old Eugen belongs to... http://gmic.co.uk/index.php/topic/60949-wulffen-set/ He was an Oberleutnant in IR97.... Does anyone have an ideas?

Just picked up this rather cool set of EK1 and EK2 docs to Oberleutnant Eugen von Wulffen of the I.R. 97 :-)

Hi, it was initially on an austrian dealers site, then Emig got it, seems to have sold within a week. I was also astonished!!

Hi, I did 4 weeks backpacking in the areas in the news nowdays... was down in canyons while locals fondeled AK47s... But it was agreat tour... would not do it today though!!

Even the tin and filter you show would probably fund a week in Mexico....