Chris Boonzaier

Well... a test at mounting them on the ball bars.... 50% success... not yet looking REALLY good.... I will have to break out the needle and thread again, but this is the medals mounted on a darkblue/black wool backing...

Here is one of my favourite groups with a bit of a write up... http://www.kaiserscross.com/40117/155801.html

Check this one out... http://www.kaiserscross.com/40117/155801.html

The jeweller made one just "feels" like a medal, whereas the other one feels like a key ring.... The original is a typical "Industrial era medal"

1 on 1.....

front...

Above right is the chromed key ring.... middle is a chromed keyring that has been dremelled, chrome removed to its brass base metal, sharp corners removed and silver plated. Right is a sterling silver piece... much finer and lighter....

How far can a man and his ego go? Veeeery far...... I used a trip to Asia to have a Saudi medal redone... As this is hidden in the French sector i thought I would add it here as well...

Lost in the French section.... On the right is my new one :-) All the cheap fake patina gunk stripped.... silver plated, and now a REAL patina will develop....

I have decided to collect these (medals and bars) for the African continent... thats a large enough field...

A very faded Algeria bar Colonial medal (dated 1895) for a guy in the 49th Inf regt....

Just an old Croation sailor.... Mine-ding his own business ;-)

Well thennn... all I can say is... "OUCH!" that thing would hurt...

part 1 http://www.kaiserscross.com/40029/150601.html

Here are some links to threads about him http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=1076...p;hl=von+hadeln And a muuuuch larger thread here... http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=1082...p;hl=von+hadeln

Hi Les, the guy in the Ausweiss itself was not a POW, he worked in a department that from what I can see in his papers had an Intel function, debriefing Russian prisonners that were being repatriated.... no easy task in 1919 Russia. But it does go to show that standardised photos on these early passes did not exist... it was whatever the buy brought along to have stuck on. best Chris

Hi, He was one of a handfull of officers repatriated in late 1917-18. I assume on parole, maybe because of wounds. So he arrived in Berlin, an ex POW BEFORE the end of the war... hence this very scarce wrtime colonial doc. The really nice printed colonial doc for South West and East Africa only came later. His EK1 doc is this latter form. He trained as a pilot in 1912 while with the arty, but did not serve as such in GSWA. In November 1918 it seems his parole came to an end and it seems he joined a Garde Division in Poland... I must dig out the papers again. His Brother commanded the Garde Sch?tzen battalion or Garde J?ger, I cannot remember which. There is a thread about him somewhere in the back pages. I wish I knew where and when he was wounded... Best Chris

pic 1... did a comrade send Tiffay a pic of Tiffay or a pic of himself? The rank and place makes both possible.

backs

2 pics that came from this group... http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=26931 Unfortunately I dont think any are from him. I think one is from a comrade, one was sent to him in 1910... Maybe, just maybe this is the widow he later married with her first husband (maybe he knew them before the war already) long shot but possible....

1st and 2nd pics are both originals bought over ebay. Best Chris

And another pic...

Botha and his staff again...

I have another one to a guy who was a Boer sharpshooter. I found quite a few documented kills of his.... also with a DSO .. I hope to get a page on the website done to him as well.

If I just knew WHICH ONE my guy was ?!?!?!?!