Chris Boonzaier

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Cannot remember which one he is... would have to compare to other photos in the group which are at home...

His wound badge

and these decorative docs are BIG... for the EK1 more battles entered....

Now check out the detail here..... te battles are entered more or less up until the time of the EK2 award....

The amount of units I have seen that did that I can count on one hand Preliminary EK1

I actually picked this up for a song on the bay.... It is unusual in that the man is one of the very, very few that got the preliminary award docs... and the Unit went to the trouble of doing more formal decorative ones..

Hi, some time ago I posted a pic of 4 sons killed in the same family, there was a EK mounted like this, but on a black ribbon. Of course, on the families initiative... A formulation error in the 1st post, i doubt as well that a widow would have worn this, but I am not so sure an ex soldier would have worn something as "girlie" as this? The mounting styles for single EKs was well known... this looks more like someone mounting something in a frame or something.... I doubt seriously that someone would have shown his face at the local veterans association like this? With millions of crosses awarded, there are millions of reasons why the person did what they did with this cross, We can only just guess and choose our favourite guess ...

Duh... sorry, that was a 2 bottles of strong beer post... of course it is.... even I should have seen that...

every Lt who thinks he can read a map needs one of these...

A ltlle bit of "spirit"... found in old German trenches...

Minen is the tag man! Some fantastic goodies!!

This sheet from the Alpenkorps field newspaper commends them for their actions on the Peronne-cambrai road, it has the Heeresbericht commendation, the Korps orders and a notice from the Alpenkorps command.

A Württemberger Regts Sturmtruppen...

Here is a relatively early shot, early enough to have the helmet, but older grenades and still with the shields...

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I am not sure if this is worn like this by the vet, or if it was worn like this by his widow, but its kinda cool...

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This is not a bad looking cross, is it O or D on the ring?

Why do collectors of British medals settle for that horrible, terrible, disgusting modern ribbon for the 14-15 star and victory medal? :-( Why not simply boycott it ? Force them to make the good stuff?

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