Chris Boonzaier

And an interesting little EK1 document... :-)

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... its an artilleryman, but what a list of battles and fights!!!!

Hi Valgor, I was not refering to you post :-) simply collecting my thoughts on the piece. best Chris

Hi, for me this was the most untainted by collectors hands big group I have seen. The 1st collector to own it did not collect german, and had no idea what a round 3 cross was. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that this cross is koscher, as is. Some collectors doubt the stamp on this piece is a maker stamp, that is their right, I am a big preacher for collectors to be a "healthy sceptics". I have passed up good and bad in the past in an effort to be careful. So I can understand that. Having said that, for me there is not a 0.001% doubt in my mind, that this is what it is, stamp and all. best Chris

I have no clue :-( but dont give the answer yet... let someone else try....

They would if they were a secret landwehr unit out to confuse collectors....

A nice pic of a Landwehr Assualt detachment....

MG? Some Landwehr had Tschakos...

Just to confuse the enemy ;-)

13th Jäger

So I will just discreetly show these without comment.....

Does anyone know if it possible to research the following action from the belgian side? http://gmic.co.uk/index.php/topic/58481-kampfschwimmer-in-belgium-;/ Thanks Chris

Hi Uwe, I had admired this doc on a number of occasions in Nimmerguts book, it is a great citation :-))

Would have prefered Bavarian... but it is OK.

Hi, does anyone have a set of 3rd Jäger officers boards to show? Thanks Chris

Another nice one, Aimer or whatever they are called, on the Chemin des Dames in 1917.... a good Bavarian document....

Strangely enough, it has taken me until now to get one of these... Kinda sexy? ;-)

This is an interesting Document, after the death of Richard staeps, the family had to return some awards... but were allowed to keep the EK2, interesting because this was 1910, I think Wernitz wrote that officiall this was possible from 1913 onwards? It must have been allowed before ...

A nice award, EK1 for an unteroffizier... for playing a major role in a raid, swimming the Yser canal, killing a number of the enemy and taking a prisoner back....

Here is a nice large IR92 doc.... a 1914 award, he died of wounds in March 1915

von Eichhorn, assasinated in 1918... his 1870 EK2

The Wernitz book has shown that in the case of pre1916 awards from the high command, these letters WERE the preliminary award document. In 1916 they issued started to issue official Preliminary docs for High command awards, until then, this was "it". A nice Belgian connection, as von der Goltz was the military governer in belgium in this early phase... for that he got this EK1. One of the very few pics where he has an EK1 on...

Sometimes we find ourselves holding fantastic pieces of history.... Von der Goltz and von Eichhorn were I think the only two who died in Service during the war....

I did not know Jerry garcia played Steel guitar on that!!