Chris Boonzaier

Maybe they had run out of red boxes by the time this was made :-)

HI, he was VizeFW 2.8.1914, then Offz Stellv. 8.8.1914 then Lt d. L.II in April 1915. I must fix my scanner to get a better pic, but the MVO is in a Hemmerle box. So if the MVK is late production it must be from a different family member.

A small group to a Bavarian Jäger Officer and owner of a brewery.... He is on the right in both photos. I assume the MVK was his first award while still vize FW... in his records MVK is inked over to an MVO, So i assume when he was promoted he was awarded an MVO and it took the place of the MVK

just recieved from the family today, no box, just the blue wrapping paper. I think this may be a 1914-15 award, or it belongs to a different family member.....

Some of you know of my weekness for the 2nd Bavarian Jäger... I just bought a set from a great great nephew of a Jäger officer.... I think he got the mvk in early 15, then an MVO soon after as Lt....

I have a 3rd card with the same cover. Chip had the theory, and I think it the logical one... there being a photographer or 2 near the Leiber barracks who had one of these for when the guys came in for their Photo Op... When you see pics of them, and they are pretty scarce, then they are on a "March out" photo....

Yup, it was for some reason a realiively quiet day as far as deaths went for the Leiber... so I included the 12th of July in my name search as well, Often guys wounded in the night before end up listed as dead on the next day.

Is the date of death the 13th or 15th? Hard to read.... I think the photo may be a Leib Regiment Photo. Very few guys were killed on the 13th... one of them is a man named Kastl, on the 12th a man named Jaser ... Maybe a spitzname for Kastl

Hi, thanks, that was a tough one for me!

Hi, can anyone hake a stab at this? Just the name of the friend... JASPL ? Thanks, Chris

HI, the cloth itself, and how its sewn, but the very fact that it has a crown... the Leib Regt did not wear crowns on the cover. There are isolated photos, but it seems to have been a single photo studio that had one with a crown and veeeeeery occasionaly you see a photo of a leiber in their studio with a crown.

Anyone have any thoughts on this? Me no like..... https://www.ebay.de/itm/Pickelhaube-Tarnbezug-Bayern-Infanterie-Leibregiment-Munchen/254003517964?hash=item3b23ca1a0c:g:TFsAAOSwT2BcAD-L:rk:1:pf:0

Here is a write up to include some of the actions he took part in in 1918 http://www.kaiserscross.com/40312/633501.html

Hi, If this was early 20s it could very well be vets, I am wondering if the reason the majority have no medals is because the ground troops in flying units got proportionally less than the fighting troops? I am going to guess very early postwar... BEFORE the association awards became popular...

I was flipping through the book for the 1925 festivities, they are not mentioned. I am not sure if these were for the Jäger themselves, or were sold to raise funds... I am guessing it may have been for the men in the unit with a set number made, maybe silver of officers and bronze for the men..... somewhere out there it is explained black on white who gets what... I wonder if that piece of paper will ever turn up? :-)

Hi, although not my field of collection, i just picked up this nice photo..... unit unknown....

Hi, thanks, What threw me was the fact that 3 guys have awards... and the other 15-20 in the pic have absolutely no awary, not even an EK2, which is statistically not really "right"

Hi Guys, thanks, the 2 numbers on the collars in different sizes so far apart from each other really confused me.

By coincidence I found another entry that is not listed in the index of the book. In the Verdun Chapter there is a paragraph praising him and the other Regt Schreiber for their work under extremely difficult conditions...

The silver ones are numbered... I have seen 2, both numbered under 100. They are also 800 stamped. Mine is numbered 36

I was lucky enough to get the silver coin to go along with the bronze one. they have the same back and front, but the ilver one is thinner

Hi, an obvious Bavarian bent here... the trhree in the middle are decorated, the rest in the group have bowties and a flieger hat badge, lapel badge etv, but no medals... is this an associan? Ex fliegerkorps veterans?

Hi, can anyone place this young man?

That is something I have never seen...

Super Uwe, thank you once again Best Chris