Chris Boonzaier

"One Nation- one people - one destiny" ???? Are you sure you identified this correctly? Seems suspiciously like a terrorist movement wanting to unite French Guyana and Guyana ! :whistle:

Interesting to see all the WW1 entries, usually these are reduced to a line or two.

I think it was more complicated than that. There was in WW1 no standardised system of issuing award docs for the EK. Some guys were awarded the medal and got a doc 2 years later. Some got 2 or 3 docs for the same award... The commanding general approved the award and it was up to the Regiment to decide what docs if any were issued. Very different from 1870 or WW2 which had very different but very orderly systems of issuing documents. This is the 3rd Saxon Doc I have with both awards. This one is interesting as it seems to have the form of an X-mas letter, but another one was to a man who was at the Ersatz Battalion back in the home depot of his regt. Very probably he was awarded the FA medal and EK2, was wounded, landed up in the E.B. and they did the paperwork to confirm he had been awarded the medals, either because the originals were lost, but very possibly because up until then he had not recieved any. It is important to remember that until mid 1918 the Germans still planned to issue "official" documents retroactively, so all the docs we see are actually all preliminary,basically just confirming that an award had been made, except later 1918 ones where they officially became "official". Best Chris

If you lived in the UK that helmet would PROBABLY be considered a dangerous weapon... and get impounded!

Still preferred my solution..... :whistle:

That looks very spiffy indeed! Imagine wearing that on sunday as you walk in the park looking for nubiles....

The Saxons seem to have liked post award documents confirming the man has the FA medal and EK2... Here is an unusual one, from the division... given out at X-Mas!

here you go... http://www.sportsmanguncentre.co.uk/product/854b17b16465b91639054077/RCBS+Kinetic+Hammer+%2728RCB09415%2729/ They are lots of fun... Head fits back in as if it had never been out...

Well done Naxos!!!!!! Now step 2.... what the hell do they "do"? Thanks for those pics, helps me a lot!

Are you trying to tell me....... there is no Santa? :shame:

There are keys there... as in "this is the key!".... And they are under a crown.... NEXT to the reindeer... but under the pope... So... Under the influence of the pope, the British Monarch will be influenced to sett all gears in mothion, to find the key to Santas missing reindeer? Naaah... cant be.... Didnt the royals kill catholic priests back in those days...? And did British Santas even HAVE reindeer???? I think not..... This DOES become confusing...... :banger:

1483... the year martin Luther was born.... yet... the popes hat is at the top! Luther cuts away at catholic dogma.... only 3 reindeer instead of 8????? Lets assume these 3 are Dasher, Donner and Blitzen.... Where are Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet and Cupid? Does this mean that strong Lutheren faith will be martial (Dasher, Donner, Blitzen)? Will a laid back live and let live philosophy be replaced by a tyranny Leaning towards being Anti Gay (Dancer and Prancer), Anti Loose women (Vixen), against extra terrestrial (Comet) and against love (Cupid).... Did the pope kill the happy five... or did Luther wish them away? I think that lid may solve all of lifes riddles if interpreted right...... :ninja:

Just what did this guy DO? :banger:

When you hit the hammer the head flies out, then you have to tap out the powder. Is a bugger when the powder is sticky. The advantage of the hammer is, when you put the head back, it is just as tight as it originally was. Best Chris

Hi, there is a special reloading hammer that allows you ro remove the heads, empty the powder out and replace the heads looking as good as new. best Chris

Hi, whats the little "A" above the discharge stripe? Is it there officially? Thanks Chris

Single round in a ploughed field, and the remains of a stick grenade...

Here is what French rounds look like still packaged and out of a bunker... 2 German Mauser rounds laying on top with rusted heads

Hi, Its for the US Springfield... looks like Mauser at first glance....

When I was down at Verdun a friend gave me some clips of Ammo he found on the Meuse Argonne battlefields... I guess the ammo belt rotted away, but there were 6 full clips of ammo (Now emptied of powder)... what was kinds cool was the round with what I assume was a shell splinter hit... When I got them they were just a couple of days out of the ground, they are a bit cleaned up now...

Very very very nice! Can I have one as well? :love:

Putting the group in its historical perspective..... http://www.kaiserscross.com/257543/284222.html

So.... some really, really cool stuff today... An article about one of the smallest units of the war, The Magadi Defence force... one of those exotic, quaint and unusual units that can only be found in a British colony... And a fantastic Silver Star/Purple Heart group to a man of the 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd division... for the attack on the village of Vaux on the 1st of July 1918... http://www.kaiserscross.com/152301.html

I assume it would be impossible to put together a collection like you had now-a-days. Really interesting stuff indeed.

Hi, Army, navy, air, medical.... anything WW1, does not even have to be named ;-)