Chris Boonzaier

Imagine if the Germans passed the same law and demanded everything back! ?

Unfortunately this guy had a thing for toothless old women, all peasant, but none pleasant.. ?

If only the dude had known that "Falling down Serbian House " ... "Old peasant woman" ... "Road near Rheims" do not ad value to an album in 2020 he would have condentrated nore on military themes

We read the Austrians awarded the Edelweiss to the Alpenkorps, and 15 000 (I think it was 15) were ordered... It only struck me recently... how likely was it that these were not ordered in Austria but In Germany? We seldom see an Alpenkorps Soldier wearing an Austrian one and although we see a number of Variations the standard one seems to be the 6 pollen one, which in turn is the standard Deschler one? Can we assume the initial ones were ordered in Bavaria?

Hi, they are from 2 photoalbums, I think taken by the Korps Photographer and the members of the Korps could order Photos... Many are of things that do not really interest us nowdays, but they cover Tirol, Serbia and the first couple of months in France 1916

Kraft, Spiegel, Tutschek

That is a question for a champion.... Usually you can figure out the writing by having a "feeling" for what it could be... I am guessing one of those old names none of us has ever heard before...

That is just fantastic.... must have been a strange feeling to be in occupied Paris during the war... great grouping!! Are you sure the father was not Jean and the Mother XXXX Maria?

I think we have to take into account that in the zusammenbruch time there may have been things for which the records are somehow missing... And the question is... would the Abwicklungsamt gardekorps have made errors? Would be interesting to know where Feldlazarette 69 was stationed

The problem with the 12th is the following.... Gem. K.M. v. 22.08.1918 wurden zwei Sturm-Komp. aufgelöst. Gem. K.M. v. 09.10.1918 wurde das Bataillon aufgelöst The 12th was already half disbanded by the time he was posted, and fully disbanded before he ever saw combat with his battalion.

Of course post WW1... I just picked this up, the bronze Table medal for Rupprecht comes in a number of variations, sometimes with date, different Obverse and reverse as the years went buy... not as commercial items but as tokens from the prince for "whatevers" from visitors, servants etc..... in the lid of the box is the miniature pin for those who attended his 60th Birthday and a small lion pin which may just be a pin supporting the royal family? Am not sure if it had any specific meaning.

Further...

Originally I thought it may be a 10 from the photos, but it is a 13, it is written twice. I really think that the 13 we know was disolved in March, and reformed so late in the war that the books simply overllooked the formation? P.S. it was in the west, Feldzug gegen Frankreich in September/October/November

According to most sources the SB13 was disbanded/swallowed up by SB12 in March 1918... Was the Battalion recreated in September 1918 and the fact overlooked in the confusion of war, hence not being mentioned in Modern References?

Hi, I think there is a turning point... lets not forget... during the war, fot bavarians... Prussian, Saxon etx were considered "Foreign" awards... if you look at the entries above, there are "bavarian" and "Foreign"... in the 3rd Reich era they were all German.... So a wartime bavarian Bar may be different.... Here is an example... Wilhelm Edenhofer... His pre July 1918 bar... he commanded the 1st bavarian Jäger Brigade for the last couple of months of the war. Very, very close to the one above, other than the Meck Schwerin instead of the friedrichs Kreuz... and notice, no sword devices!

I may be wrong, but i cannot remember seeing a bar with MVOs seperated? They always seem to be next to each other on a bar?

On most bars it seems to be the VO with swords, then directly after the MVO without?

Fantastic guys, thanks! Would the MVO have been on the order of them bein awarded, or would the one with swords take preference for 1st place?

You would be astounded how easy it was to do.... I got two 7 foot poles, mammered some boars onto them, stand it against a wall, have an old pallet as a base, and a chopping block next to it... and it just kinds grows from there.... I can exchange uniforms.... I am getting better and better with the displays.... this was an older one (old, a couple of weeks ago) ... but you just have to take care of details... waited a few weeks for a typical alpine walking stick... am waiting for an old grey woolen scarf for my Jäger....

I am going to go out on a limb here and say it is you? ? But I will up that to d. Good question! No idea why...

I am still missing a woolen scarf to complete this.... Alpenkorps - Tirol 1915 ... The Cap is actually a 10th Jäger but is dirty enough that it is Feldgrau... the Tschako os from a one year volunteer who served in the 2nd bavarian Jäger batl in 1907, the Greatcoat is a rare Bird... it is for a Fähnrich, stamped as approved for the 1st Jäger batl and has 1 Jäger sewn on straps. The Greatcoat has a special cut approved for bavarian Fähnrich... officers cut, but the buttons like other ranks... the thinking behind that was if and when they were promoted to officer all they had to do was change the straps for shoulder boards and move the buttons into 2 rows...

Guys, this is a fantastic thread!!!! I wanted to post soooo bad, but I have multiple favorites and I cannot choose!!!

I had a postcard with a painting on it, there he had a gold one.

Yeah... that would be craaaaaaazy money.

Yeah... but imagine how mad I am!? I saw it on auction... woulda cost me half the price if I had bid... less than half the price... but it is still well worth it IMHO. I am happy with it at the full price... I wish i had bid on a number of things on that auction...