Chris Boonzaier

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Is a "Supervisor" a Civilian? http://www.ebay.de/itm/Grosbritannien-England-war-medal-14-18-Randgravur-/310595840445?pt=Militaria&hash=item4850f469bd

The Annam Dragons are really works of art... nice to own, even if you dont collect them. Wish i had recieved a nedal as purdy as that....

Sorry, forgot to show the front.... http://gmic.co.uk/index.php/topic/54268-bavarian-jaeger-goodies-killer-militaerpass/

Hi, Very possible... The EK docs show...in December 1914 Hauptmann at Militäreisenbahn direktion 2 July 1916 Militär-Eisenbahndirektion 5, Major (Abteilungsvorstand) Mertens I guess he ran around seeing that the Artilery had their goodies transported....

Aaargh... right you are.... I forgot i had done this a few years ago on the site, you post jogged the memory... http://www.kaiserscross.com/76001/282001.html Each Armee-Oberkommando had a staff officer of the Telegraphentruppen attached to it who acted as advisor and was responsible for technical details relating to communications. Under his command was an Armee-Telegraphen-Abteilung, a Funker-Kommando and 2 Schwere Funkenstationen. ..after 1917... The Akofern and Akofunk fell away and an Armee-Nachrichten-Kommandeur (Akonach) took over all the Nachrichten units within the A.O.K.s, excluding those under Generalkommando or Divisional command. The Akonach was responsible for the coordination, readiness and communication regulations and security within his area of command and were centrally numbered from 1-26. But the OHL officer still seems not to fit in 100%...

Hi, "Militär-Eisenbahndirektion 5, Major (Abteilungsvorstand) Mertens" Abteilungsvorstand is a new one for me on military docs.... does anyone have an Idea? I am guessing Mertens was a railwayman before the war? But he is not d.R.

Hi, I think nachrichten only became intel in WW2? It was still Radio/Communications in ww1. It is to "Uffz. Lehmann beim Nachrichten Offizier der O.H.L beim A.O.K. 18" I am guessing they were there to assure Comms between OHL and the 18 Armee ?

Indeed... this was the regt slap in the middle.... the award was made when they were pulled from the line... UNFORTUNATELY there is no regt history for them, but I assume for a private to get the EK1 he must have done something extraordinary...

What an incredibly small world... my wifes Grandfather was wounded on the fight with the Glowworm... but he was on a German Destroyer!! Do you have a Photo of your uncle?

OK... so no takers.... 1)- a lowly Private is rare as rare for an EK1 2) This Unit in July 1918.... was resting after heavy action in June 1918 3) "Come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?"

So far we have 7 variations for the Book project... if anyone has any not yet posted, and would agree to us using them, can you post them here? Thanks Chris

There must have been a reason for setting up where they did??