Chris Boonzaier

A loooong shot, but does anyone have this group?

I just thought a thread with such a nice title should not slip through the cracks.....

All three are fantastic!!

Try googling Paul Branford coldstream Guards.... you will see what is probably his facebook page, seems like the right age...

Coldstream Guards , I think it is one of the nicer units?

Indeed, I need to find the time to do it, the list is very long indeed of what i have to do :-(

Hi, a question, Did Leser make these up to and after 1945? If so, was it possible that they made replacement pieces like this in the 30s or 40s? We must differentiate between private purchase (for veterans) and fake (to fool collectors)... Best Chris

OK, Finally..... my entry into the most unusual medals for service in the German Army..... These awarded for service in a Garde Regiment 14-18. I suspect he had the EK2 as well as he suffered a major wound and this usually qualified.

Oc course there are.... but they wear uniforms...

The Jaeger Monument with crossed G98 and Lebel, you can see how valuable the peak was from the view in the background....

The Upper Rehfels...

Now to the good stuff... some Photos of the HWK....

The Hartmannsweilerkopf is a mountain in Alsace, it is one of the "Niche" battlefields. Of immense tactical value, it was the scene of bloody fighting, but no progress from 1914-18. In some areas the front lines were just a few meters from each other. have 2 articles up about the H.K. up for background... A flamethrower attack... http://www.kaiserscross.com/40029/78001.html and a general overview that needs reworking... http://www.kaiserscross.com/40047/41321.html

Thanks to a fantastic surprise from Don I have managed to more or less double my Verdun "snaps from above"... Over the next few weeks I am going to try and match them with my trench maps.... Here is a relatively untouched Fleury in March 1916

This one of the Albrecht Flugelminenwerfer is not to bad either...

Does not get much better than this.... dont know which I would prefer, the sleeve patch or the werfer???

this would hurt....

What a bummer, there is no regt history for this unit :-(

is indeed

I will see if I can dig up an old medals yearbook, maybe they mention awards to Germans as well...

Hi, In that condition, signature faded off, maybe about EUR20 to someone who wants the regiment, best Chris

Hi Karsten, now that you say it, i am not sure... It is possible that it was another British award. For some reason i think it may have been somewhere in East Afrika, but also recieved one of the Africa medals with a special clasp somewhere between 1900 and 1910... Is there a list of such officers? i.e. those who recieved british campaign awards?

Here is a nice clear one....

Here you go..

There was a guy some years ago on Ebay selling a group to a german officer with the West Africa 1908 bar. Also his WW1 stuff. He was if i remember correctly a POW in Russia, escaped, had an article written about him. I exchanged mails back and forth with him, trying to figure out a trade, but in the end someone else got it all. as a Boobie prize i got an extra EK1 from the group and a beer bug with EK deckle... Stupidly, stupidy, stupidy i lost the name of the guy :-(