Chris Boonzaier

Hi Uwe, Thanks for the tip... any Idea of how many pages or how much detail ? Thanks Chris

I just need one... and so far they have eluded me... :-( I am on the hunt now...

Thats a bugger. I am thinking about buying a Baden bravery medal to a member of the regt... there is no really sexy citation, just along the lines of "Fought well and hard 1914-17. I was hoping for some mentions of him in the history of the unit. :-(

I have seen the 220s and 230s.... but so far none on the RIR238. Does anyone know if it existed? The history I mean.

He seems to have been trained a AK level. What a book!!! Niiiice actions.

I think they may have been used 50s 60s 70s Best Chris

Ohhh... I remember it well... an Afrika cuffband doc to a General.... not many of those around...

Indeed :-( He was an extreme case, but in my "old filing system" I (add blush here) ended up splitting a group or two more.

I hate group splitters, but have been guilty of it as well. I have so many documents in drawers and files that I loose the overview of what belongs where.... A few years ago when I got rid of a bunch of my WW2 stuff i sold off a group, forgetting I had the EK2 doc filed separately. I did not look at that for eons until i started working on this page of the website about the horses in the war... http://www.kaiserscross.com/60401/84701.html Parallel to that I was cleaning up my PM box and found some mail i had forgotten about. Long and short of it is.... This Doc will now be going back to join its family....

Or... will be kept of the front page of the Sun. I hope that QE2 does the recipients a favor and stops with this silliness of hers to have the head/crown proportion changed even more. When she started out it was a 3:1 proportion.... now it is 1:3... soon there will just be a huuuuge crown with a pinprick sized head...

Indeed... but there is sooooo much photographic evidence of Regt machine gunners wearing them.... it cannot be that they were all transfered out of the MGSSA.

hmmmmm.... very nice indeed. Very, very rare. I would be interested to see what it would bring on an auction... sometimes very rare and totally obscure can produce funny prices...

Hi, am not sure about the "elite" school in Rozoy but the main MG school at D?beritz also trained Rigimental MG kompany people. The AOK schools only became the "official" schools in November 17 even though they had existed before, so the M-Gunners must have gotten their training elsewhere before this.. Then you have the guys who are in the Regt MG company with no official schooling.... The big question is..... Who could wear the arm badge?

Hi cnock, nice, that is what I would expect to find in the book of the guy with the sleeve badge. it is just supposition on my part, but it is a theory I am trying to prove. Either a MG Schule entry, although there may be exceptions where that is not entered. I believe the sleeve badge is a qualification badge as opposed to a unit badge. (i.e. that it is not a MGSSA badge as described in some catalogs)

Hi, That could be for Merit or bravery. There seems to be no rule that states that Iron Crosses for merit in the field need to be labeled as such. White ribboned crosses usually are, as are Black ribboned for service in the heimat. Your guy got his award while the Division was on the Aisne, in the 3 or so months before it did not see much combat... I would guess an NCO with lots of good service, part of it at the front under arty fire... and after a few years his NCO said "Now is the time for an EK..." A more classical "Merit in the field" would be to Eisenbahn Direktion men or Etappenkommando men (but even they could have it for bravery on occasion)+ Best Chris

It does not NEED to be. Many guys were in MG units without having gone through the MG schools. Some were MG trained within their regiments. Its a different qualification. Best Chris

Hi, its slightly vaulted. best Chris

I have always liked this one, paint is poefect and is a LDO made one. Usually I mave only ever seen thinner non LDO crosses with this system?

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