Chris Boonzaier

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It is stamped to the 2nd Field Regt, the KS98 has the standard Schutztruppe stamps..

Hi, I am adding some Bayonets to this. a Big Thanks to Mervyn who has helpen me assemble some of these... Top one is 1900 dated...

How did units get the right to have "different" helmet plates?

I am not a bayonet guy, but I would think this is as good as I have seen. A nice piece.

Nice trousers... are these the Sturm trupp issued pants or one of the "knees repaired with leather" pants? With a 6 year old at home my wifes Grandmother has spent the last 2-3 years repairing the knees of pants with patches of all kinds... I can now imagine how many issue pants had knee repairs. Best Chris

That is a cool photo indeed.... have they taken the But off the lewis??

I wonder if those are not mourning brassards? Sometimes you see them on german photos. best Chris

Nope.... better than that...... :-)

Check this out!!! http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2009/10/20/german-official-and-regimental-histories/

Hi, the period from May-end of August 1917 at Verdun would be fantastic. Failing that, if very limited... the 6th of June 1917 and the 16th of August 1917 are the most important dates. Best Chris

Hi, does anyone have the history of the Gren Regt 110 ? Thanks Chris

When could a collector possibly find half a jacket to be more interesting than a complete one? :-)

Hi, am looking after kids all day, will try to get back to this soon... Have a few write ups on the 12th bavarian on the kaiserscross site best Chria

Hi Ronald Adrian Mackenzie Ewart.... 2nd Lt 9.11.1889, half Pay Lt 8.5.1895 1 KOYLI, Resigned 1.12.1897... So unless the Boer war in another unit, this is not the group for you... Best Chris

Here is a rather rare one.... especially with the insides....

Hi, what is the bar on the colonial medal? Best Chrid

Vry, very nice indeed!!!

Depends how much the old guy knew about medal markets. Maybe his idea of collecting is what he has seen at the local collectors shop at the shopping mall in wherever... a small dish of medals and bowling association pins, pulled apart and never to be brought together again. Sold to the people of the town he lives in. I get a lot of the "how ever did it land up there !?!?" when I tell folks where I have bought things from....

This death card arrived yesterday, the man was killed in September 1916 in the Chapitre Wald at Verdun. Killed by serious wounds in a Bombardement and buried alive. The watch I found in the Chpitrewald sector earlier this year, it had been churned up by a Forestery machine.... Stopped at 08:15.... Of course, its not his.... but they just seem to fit together....

I would love to find a little shop like that just around the corner.... Really nice, especially the little ribbon with its device...

Those are indeed nice... It is strange, I am so conditiones to EK Ribbons, my first reaction was "Huh?!?!?!?"

Hi, but not in this case.... Grenadier regt 12 had left Verdun by then, 12th Bavarian Inf regt was there as was the 1st Bavarian Inf Regt (Gren Regt 1 was never at Verdun). 1 bav inf regt as part of Bavarian 1st Div 12 bav Inf regt as part of 2nd Bav Div. Best Chris

Why when i see a machette /Coupe-coupe on an African medal, is agriculture only the second thing I think of :-(

Is he being decorated by general Rollet ???????