Chris Boonzaier

While going through a frame of EK2s I realised once again that some are just better looking than others, and for the EK2, there is an added feature... the back side... does it have a nice derriere... arguably the most complicated part on the design is the leaves... This one jumped out, i liked the "W" being almost frame height, the finish... There were some others, but to start the ball rolling... this is my contribution for the nicest core for an EK... I would be curous to see yours...

Not a document, but to add a face to all this... Uffz Merkle of the 4th Bavarian infantry regiment

Cant see it... what is it??

Hows this for a bolt out of the blue.... I was visiting a freind last night looking through a big pilots document group he recently bought.... in the back was a binder pocket with "junk", reciepts, some HJ stuff, some sport awards... and the Document for the NSFK Glider badge! He did not think it was anything special, just a non military document... had no idea how rare, it was number 17XX, Only the 2nd one I have seen in the flesh... in with the junk ;-)

Who has the "prettiest" KO core? It is not easy to find one, but there must be one out there????

Halfway down the page here you can see the inside of our tent, with 3 of the ugliest guys in the legion... :-) http://pierrebayle.typepad.com/pensees_sur_la_planete/2011/06/franc-tireur-reporter.html

Most People in France with an interest in the Military will know Yves Debay, I met him just 3 times, once in the Gulf, once at our barracks and Once in Paris after I had come back from Zaire. he was on his way to the Balkans to cover the war, I had 3 weeks off and we were trying to figure out if i could hop over and join his 2 week tour... it was not possible, simply as i had no passport... He was a real war junky, journalist... Killed in an Ambush in Syria RIP http://www.marianne.net/blogsecretdefense/La-mort-d-Yves-Debay-reporter-de-guerre_a918.html

Can anyone say anything about hauptmann schulzte, Killed in September 1914 in a unit of the 59th Inf Brigade? IR97 or IR138 I am guessing. Thanks Chris

Anyone have any new evidence about Posthumous awards, or found any statutes? Thanks Chris

Whats nice is, it is sent to the division, passed on to the brigade, on to the regt, on to the battalion, then on to the hospital... signed at every level.... Now why can't the German post Office do as well as these guys did in wartime!!

I assume these usually did not have award docs? This one had a cover letter, the award and a return reciept...

The 12bIR again...

12bIR

11th Infantry Regiment

2nd Jäger Bataillon

Here is one identifed by bavaria as a Ernst Schneppenhorst stamped signature...

Almost forgot Deruelle's Thuringen collection! http://gmic.co.uk/index.php/topic/27967-my-thuringian-collection/

7 of them, but originally for this ....

Here is a guy wearing everything wrong.. surprising as it is in Uniform.... Not Ehrenkreuz WO swords, and the bars....

I wonder if tailorsmounting medals did it to make the bars neater, easier to mount... and collect a little silver on the side... although I guess the amounts were negligable. But to be honest, i have never seen a bar mounted like that...

Here is one from the 70th Inf regt

If ever for some reason you have tried to take the ring off an EK, you know you need to cut through it... but we often see crosses like the one on the left for sale... Wild thought... were these rings deliberately removed? It is way easier to sew something like this onto a Medal bar than a cross with the big ring... then take a look at the one on the right... basically made for medal bar mounting...

Wow... I have never seen one of those before! With some things its just not worth warrying too much about condition!

Hi, yes, 2 medals, Militaerpass and documents, it was a postwar award to a bavarian who worked at the Hauptlaboratorium Ingolstadt, I think to remember it was a big ammunition laboratory or something. EK is not marked. Best Chris

Ahhh... would never have thought it was repaired! It does however have a blackened as opposed to painted core. Its really, really sexy...