Chris Boonzaier

Part one of the Mensch group can be found on the october 15 update.. http://www.kaiserscross.com/85801/home.html

http://www.kaiserscross.com/85801/home.html The October 15 update has a very early EK1 doc and a description of the battle for which it was awarded... ENJOY !!!!

Hi, I assume we are talking "Battalion" ? I think a glance at most Pionier battalions will show them to be "a bureaucratic "home" " for the units of the battalion. Usually you have the companies of the battalion spread over a bunch of divisionsand the Batln. itself as a ghost admin office, so I dont see what is so ominous with the 32nd? My reference to the battalion shows simply where the companies that served on Divisional level were on a certain date in 1918, not where they were before and not parts attached to higher formations. many pionier formations are elusive, unless there is something a bit more concrete to prove otherwise, I would guess it was simply a unit in a Armeekorps supporting the Bulgarians or something along those lines as supposed to a secret unit. Best Chris

Maybe he was not an officer at all? As Rick says, A Bursche seems to have been an enlisted servant. An Ordonnanz to a General was usually a junior officer, driver to the crownprinz? Maybe a senior NCO or Leutnant doubling as Ordonnanz? I assume way too low on the paygrade to get a mention anywhere?

Hmmm... way back when someone said it was in edition 1. Cannot remember who it was though :-(

I found that one yesterday evening online, but strangely it seems to be the only one out there? Best Chris

Hi, does anyone have any photos of General Glasnovic to post? Thanks Chris

I am researching an Imperial officer who left goverment employ in 1934... His name was mensch. Does anyone know if this is usually a Jewish name in Germany? Googling the name comes up with millions of unrelated hits. Thanks Chris

I think they were going all out to train as many divisional Sturmbatl. for the coming offensive. Best Chris

Thats quite a leap! A nice looking piece, but what was the price based on? Best Chris

Bob... by post refers to Pionier Battalion 32 NOT Reserve Pionier Battalion 32. The companies of reserve battalion 32 were called RESERVE companies. Only 1-3 are mentioned as they are attached to divisions, and those that were attached to higher units are not mentioned on my list.

I would guess that these would have to be examined on a case to case basis? As I dont believe there ever was a cross... I dont think there can be true pieces... but I do believe Saddam had medals. For the ORIGINAL ones I would imagine the trail would be.... Civilians/GIs/Cops/god knows who ... loot a building/Palace/Office and come away with a ton of booty.... 6 months down the road someone says... "Hey, look at this pic of Saddam... he has the medals you found...."... In all the cases where that happened... the trail of "proof" is gone.... Can we discredit these groups just because the trail has a gap in it and the guy cannot remember exactly where he found it? We would run the risk of saying "That bar is worth the sum of the individual medals, so lets break it up and sell it..."

I assume there were 15-25 sets for him, basically one in each house. All just as official as the next one, and they must all be somewhere? In theory there are probably a number of collectors out there with original Saddam sets. best Chris

There is apparently a version of the lower doc pictured here in "The Iron Time" Could someone please post it? http://www.kaiserscross.com/40038/76501.ht...session*id*val* Thanks Chris

This one not mine by the way, i saw it on a US stamp dealers site.

Does anyone know anything about a general Sokolow (sp?) taken prisonner by the germans? Maybe as early as 1914? Thanks Chris

He was overcompensating... this was him in 1874... I kid you not.

The Noske part is printed... but pretty cool all the same. I got a pile of his stuff on Ebay, am now trying to buy the stuff I missed. best Chris

This is a pass for guy in the reichswehrminiterium, Abteilung U7 (Abw). I think the Abw. is for Abwehr? He was working to repatriate many thousands of Russian POWs, at the same time gather info from them and at the same time stopping them from pulling any Bolchy tricks. Hauptmann d.L. Franz Mensch... a highly educated man.

It was down for a while... but he is back at it. http://cgi.ebay.de/Grosse-21er-Ordensspang...1QQcmdZViewItem The wording says quite clearly (but of course... SMALL) that you are bidding on a picture.

Issued in 1940 for a WW1 wound, in Vienna.

No, companies of it were attached to the 195th, 197th and 31st I.D.s Seems to have appeared in 1918 and its companies are listed as "Reserve Pionier" companies. Best Chris

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