Chris Boonzaier

Looks like the cloth used by the Goums in morocco, tailored a bit more western styled into a coat.... I would say North Africa through to Turkey....

As this is a generic doc, he only has to make them out to the 112th until he gets a new or different stamp, then he can do a different unit.....

Same fake, same seller "villnapep"

Hi, there is no fixed rule for that. What came on the card was up to the family and printer. Best Chris

Hi, a nice little item from the 1920s-30s (probably). EK2 and wound badge in an unusual way of wearing them...

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Njet, nix Adi. Our guy here was wounded earlier.... was back home with the ersatz Battalion when this pic was taken. hitler was still at tthe front and was only wounded in October 1916...

Hitler is not in the pic. there are certain facial features that look a bit "hitlerish", but the important ones are not the same.

Hi, I have just been looking through hundreds of online photos of French troops in WW1. This jacket does indeed appear in wartime photos, worn by NCOs. All the photos I saw it in seem to be NCOs with this on and new recruits in drill clothes. Photos dated about 1915-16. So I assume an NCO who had fought 1914-15 and who was training recruits 15-16 may have worn it as it is.... Best Chris

Hi, It is Capt William Arthue Burton, York and Lancaster regiment (TF) and Intel Corps http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=4397&st=25 Would be great if you have anything. Thanks Chris

Hi, if I want copies of an officers records (WW1), what is the going cost for research and who can you recommend to do it ASAP? Thanks Chris

Hi, needs to be taken into account that the tunic with 7 buttons was worn until 1910 before being replaced. It MAY be that it was worn in garrison duty during the war.... dont know enough about these to say....

Hi Vet, I am not familier with how the army worked back then. Some, like the British, had SGTs with decades of service. Do you think a SGT would have enough service for a Medaille Militaire in peacetime? I think nowdays it is 22 years service (or something along those lines). If it was your tunic, what would you choose to put on it? I know there are purists who say "nothing, because you dont know what he REALLY had!" but I prefer to think of it as a representative display tunic. Thanks Chris

I think he must have sanitised himself after the war and razored the SS off the documents.. In the one doc you see the typewriter had it, but it is entered in pen by his rank....

In the early 90s you got 2 four pocket jackets and had to take one to the tailer and get it cut down into one of these. The other one was used as a class A jacket

Hi, here is the stupid question.... COULD someone from the 89th have served in the colonies? I am guesing he must have entered the army arounf 1900 or so.... The loops for the medal widths are markedly different, 4.1 and 3.2 cms respectively...

I have a Tunic model 1899 to a man from the 89th infantry regiment. He was a Sgt with the piping around the cuff for reenlistment. My literature on French uniforms is zero, but from what I have been able to find out (very little) this tunic was introduced in 1899 and worn until about 1910 when it vchanged from a 7 to 9 button version. if anyone has more info than that I would be very grateful! I assume some of these may even have been worn during the war, even if they were the old model. What is interesting is it has the loops for 2 medals... one with a ribbon about 4.1cm wide, the other with loops for a ribbon about 3.2cm wide. So the question that is driving me crazy... is this the tunic of an NCO who somehow got a Medaille Militaire and maybe a colonial or Morocco medal in the first decade of the century.... I am not sure how the French system worked back then... could someone in service before 1910 still have been an NCO in the same regiment after 1914? I assume so, guys did not transfer with no reason... So this could have been his smart uniform kept in a cupboard and worn home on leave during the war, even if an obsolete pattern? Can anyone think of a medal with a 3.2-3.3cm wide ribbon that a Sgt of a line regiment may have had 1910-1915 or 1916? It requires an understanding of the pre war army I dont have. My rough shot in the dark is.... I dont know!!!!! Best Chris

Nope, its a skull. I guess he must have been attached to the regiment or battalion.

Thank you!

Unfortunately nothing :-(

Why did I not figure Chip would have that covered!!

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Here you go http://www.kaiserscross.com/246801/246822.html Thanks to Irish Gunner, TomW it is up and running....... Soon to come, a photo section.....

hi, 3-7 is OK, is probably my average as well, 1-4 is a lowball happy average...

Hi, if they are really really nice and I have an interest in the unit and/or action, i may go crazy and pay EUR10-15... if it was a real, real, real, real, real... killer piece, maybe a tad more. A few years back guys were paying USD300-500 for some of the WW2 stuff, they would never get their money back on it today.... average WW1, maybe EUR1-4...