Chris Boonzaier

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 :-(

fantastic, thanks guys!!!!

Aber der Söllner nicht!!! Bayern in the house!!!!

Whats the cammo thing on the right?

If you are unlucky... he will want it back.... maybe stolen from his quarters at Ong Dong in 1969.... if you are lucky, he gave up smoking 30 years ago and no longer needs it ;-)

Can't eat eintopf out of a helmet!! :-)

Hi Stuka! Do you have your own Museum??

You have to look really hard to find a Haube with a more vertical peak than that!! it points almost straight down!!

Wow... interesting! Is that a name written on the top of the box?

Well, you just need to do the tour 4-5 times... :-)

Nice, as I said, could be an officers, maybe bought for his company clerk to use...(the name plate of the maker makes me think not issue), could be civilian, could be for a Govt official somewhere out in the bush. Nice item

Countries with colonies often had "military outfitters" which sold items specially concieved to make overseas service more comfortable. If this is not an issue item, it may well be something commercially made for travellers or soldiers/officers....

So... you have somethiing to show i think ? :-)

Wow.... it does not get better than that! Depressingly nice... :-(

So, the guy seems not to have applied for a Ehrenkreuz, or did so late, after having recieved this?

Very interesting indeed! When does the Lebanese medal date from?

Hi, (Historical Terms) (in feudal Europe) the property or fee granted to a vassal for his maintenance by his lord in return for service

O would also have thought it was a non regional name.. I wonder how the Meyer/Mayer/Meier variations got their "regions" ?

Yea, he is the artilleryman

Whats the weihnachten one??

A young officer from the 17th Infantry Regiment...

Here is an intersting pic from 1918, POWs from Portugal... you can see their helmets...

Unfortunately I can not see the shoulder board cyphers... he has EK2, Hohenzollern and? Thnaks Chris

Looks like these guys were right away put to work preparing positions??

Here is one being inspected by some German Minenwerfer guys during the 1918 advance...