Chris Boonzaier

Hi Bison, yup, 2 REI, but before my time... this was in 1972. Some of the Legion songs on youtube have been done by a choir and are nowhere near as "good" as when sung by a compagnie... Here is one of my all time favourites.... not only a legion song...

Sorry... pardon the pun... Marching songs in the foreign legion are really part of the tradition.... often accompanied by cursing and punishment... only once in 5 years was I part of a company that once sang a song so perfectly that you could feel the guys thinking " me... this is perfect"... and folks all over the parade ground turned to watch us march by... This is not perfect... but really, really nice...

Hmm... someone promoted Lt d. Res in 1918 may very well have worn the DA3....

I assume now retired...

According to article... one of the first womaen to go on patrol in Northern Ireland...

At play....

I found these pics today.... now there is a keeper, would marry her in a moment... nice looking woman... nice rack... u'hem... I mean... great medals group....

maybe he had a difficult childhood... or came from a single parent family... you never know.... ;-)

finding anything on these is veeeeeeery elusive.. will see if I have anything at home...

Was he really fully a terrorist operative? Or was he an idiot who made his own agenda after surfing the internet and exchanging a few emails? where is the bar between being a murdering homicide guy, and being an enemy combatant? did milititary personel killed in the twin towers get one? best Chris

Hi Bernhard, Thank you for the posts on this subject. When i have a moment I shall try get my thoughts down as well. Best Chris

Probably just an old guy who was not in regular service, the medals arrived in 1920 and lay in a drawer... then he mounted them as he thought they should be mounted... Lots of old servicemen have/had little contact to rules and regulations after having left tghe service for so long. Could also have been mounted by the family years after te event. We can guess, and one guess is as good as another... but I think we will never know... Best Chris

Can anyone confirm the MBE citation in this article? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/special-forces-obituaries/9961915/Fred-Marafono.html?fb Thanks Chris

IMHO it would be wrong to award them... even if the victims have my sympathies... If this was the case, where would you stop? Any soldiers wounded by Tim Mcveigh?

I am really, really happy to be able to show these two articles Henk wrote about medals to Boers who served in the Anglo Boer war. These appeared a number of years apart. I think they will be of great interest to many collectors. Certain portions of text can be found in both articles, but I thought if would be beneficial to post both articles in their entirety. The Original article, with the variations http://www.kaiserscross.com/40184/465722.html A later version of the article with a bit on the wound ribbons http://www.kaiserscross.com/40184/465743.html And a huge thatnks to Henk Loots for allowing me to use them. They are THE articles abouth the award.....

What the fork you want that for !?!!? Just kidding... nice piece with a history behind it!!!

Ugh.... is that new??

This is fantastic stuff, it is always interesting to see the different punishments for higher and lower ranks ;-)

Hi, what is the 2nd one on post 24?

Hi, so this is a Prussian model introduced June 1914? Muchos Grazias!!

Yessss... good stuff. I for one am really intersted how it was "back then"... Best Chris

Hi, are you sure it is not armierungs Battalion? Best Chris

Very nice, old Roberts, this seems to have come out after the Transvaal and Free State fell, but before the start of the guerilla phase of the war... so very easy to pinpoint the date. fantastic piece!!!

http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/document/8920/3504

I dont know if this helps... but there are some nice pics of the medal to a Cpl Brown... http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/document/8920