Chris Boonzaier

SS Aufklärungs Abt 5

An earlx 1931 signature... in Dusseldorf....

Just to show how the internet changes things... when I owned this group, there was nothing, nothing, nothing to be found about him or the unit.... today I found this Am 13. Januar 1943 kam es zu schweren russischen Angriffen ostwärts von Mga bei den Sinjawinohöhen. Das I. Bataillon wurde unter Hauptmann Faforke dorthin verlegt. In schweren, 14tägigen Kämpfen blutete das Bataillon vollkommen aus, die Reste wurden bei der Rückkehr des Bataillons zum Regiment auf die anderen beiden Bataillone verteilt. So already probably many close combat days with no assaults...

A last doc, nothing special to say about it...

This Gentleman had EK1, 2, DKiG and a close cbt clasp... and the seller assumed the Inf Assault doc was missing. It was not, as confirmed by a son of the man. The division he was in was a sicherungs division. Plenty of close combat in Russia, but never any assaults, or not in the period he was there....

In fact, 6 of his close combat days did not count as assault days...

Here is a fine example of not every assault day being a close combat day, and not every close combat day being an assault day.... Ja's on the left are close combat days, Ja's on the right, assault days...

It is a well known Jewish name in South Africa, have no idea of the origin, maybe German? Or Polish?

von Heyking

Schlemm

In Narvik

Well known to Narvik collectors...

A 1965 one....

Post 116 is a very low rank, so maybe a guess is as good as it gets? Could it be Glass? and 110 maybe Eugen?

Hi, no. That was related to an Iron Cross documrent, i think the german consulate in swrden is an artilery unit of the dividion

I thought there was a swedish connection to regt, i think i have hindenburg doc issued in sweden to member of division that regt was in

I thought there was a swedish connection to regt, i think i have hindenburg doc issued in sweden to member of division that regt was in

That seems like a damned good book

Gob drool? Can i use that or is there a copyright on thst ? :-)

I also dont see any proble

Hi Christian, I am not sure what it is, but notice a very Swedish influence to it with the crowns...

Is it white metal, or aluminium? Best Chris

Hi Jef, here is something from SB 4 http://www.trenchfighter.homepage.t-online.de/40029/450922.html

"Ragged piece of canvas? Intriguing!" IOndeed... he has a very intruiging ragged pioece of Canvas I have only ever heard about.... :-)

I think Hesse. In 4 years of war it was possible to be a number of things, both Civilian and military service. Best Chris