Chris Boonzaier

No (Thank Buddah!) , I dont have any space for it anyway ;-)

Hi, I think the prolific maker of wound badges, the state Mint in Vienna.

Without knowing diddly about Austrian Minis, there are certainly some eye catchers in among that lot!

I think you comfortably slip into the "Dirty old man" category at your age.....

Hi, I asked on a Legion group... apparently all of the following get the "Sahel" clasp.... 1. L’opération « Serval », menée au Burkina Faso, en Côte d’Ivoire, au Mali, en Mauritanie, au Niger, au Sénégal et au Tchad entre le 11 janvier 2013 et le 30 septembre 2014. 2. L’opération « Sabre », menée au Burkina Faso, en Côte d’Ivoire, au Mali, en Mauritanie, au Niger et au Sénégal depuis le 1er décembre 2009 ainsi qu’au Tchad à compter du 1er octobre 2014 et jusqu’à une date qui sera précisée ultérieurement. 3. L’opération « Barkhane », menée sur les territoires du Burkina Faso, de la Côte d’Ivoire, du Mali, de la Mauritanie, du Niger, du Sénégal et du Tchad à compter du 1er octobre 2014 et jusqu’à une date qui sera précisée ultérieurement.

The problem is descriptions have 11. Komp...... which points in the direction of a Regt ?

I am having a great deal of trouble figuring out the unit here.... 1) The Photo with the mule is labeled "Arrival Verdun June 1916" (Name Rudolf Netting) 2) The men seem to be from "11. Komp "Münzel"" (Lt. Münzel?) 3) The snow capped peaks are the "Smotrec Höhe" in the Karpathan Mountains. 4) I am assuming the smotrec ones are the end of 1916 5) They seem to have been in Italy in Jan-Feb 1918 A Wild A$$ed guess... they are 200. I.D. .... but from the uniforms not 3rd Jäger Regt? Check out the cuffs on the dude with the Mule... looks arty? but no guns at all in any of the pics?

Hi, does anyone know the difference between these? https://www.amazon.de/Zeugnisse-von-Dolomitenfront-1915-Alpenkorps/dp/8868392887/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1509270826&sr=8-2&keywords=alpenkorps and https://www.amazon.de/Das-Alpenkorps-Dolomitenfront-Mythos-Realität-ebook/dp/B017T1DVTE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1509270976&sr=8-1&keywords=alpenkorps

Here is a similar one that seems to have been captured by an Austrian? I am assuming maybe something Serbian, Bulgarian, Romanian? http://www.ebay.de/itm/232499453976?clk_rvr_id=1348688550363&rmvSB=true Picked up where both the austrians and Leib regt served....

Wow, I have never seen one like that before! Nice!!!!

Here are a 1 Garde zu Fuss selection......

Hi, I researched some Guys who recieved it in July 1917, no entries. As each record was entered by the company clerks for the mans respective company, I would bet that it was dependent on the company as to whether the details were entered or not. i.e. 1. Komp entered the rings, 2. Komp did not. Here are a list of the officers... In the part 2 there are 6 officers who also recieved the Manschafts ring then later recieved the officers one. Oberst Ritter von Epp Oblt. d. R. Buchhierl Oblt. Schoerner Oblt. v. Bomhard Hptm. Frhr. v. Riedheim Oblt. d. R. Bretschneider Oblt. d. R. Murr Oblt. Frhr. v. Fraunberg Lt. Rüger Lt. d. R. Kammerer Hptm. Frhr. v. Bechtolsheim Lt. Graf v. Dürckheim Oblt. Graf v. Armansperg Oblt. d. R. Brötz Hptm. Frhr. v. Pranckh ++ Lt. Frhr. v. Pranckh ++ Hptm. Graf v. Bothmer Lt. v. Stettner Lt. Frhr. v. Godin Lt. d. R. Dunker Lt. d. R. Ritter v. Halt Oblt. Graf v. Bothmer Hptm. d. R. Herr Lt. d. R. Petzold Lt. d. R. Hartmann Hptm. d. R. Frhr. V. Pechmann Lt. März Oblt. Frhr. v. Speidel Ant Lt. d. R. Boehmer Lt. d. R. Neubert Oblt. d. R. Schumann Lt. d. R. Meng Lt. Frhr. v. Thüngen Oblt. d. R. Griebenow Lt. v. Lossow Part2 Lt. d. R. Puhl (154) Lt. d. R. Mitterer (1087) Lt. d. R. Hipper Lt. d. R. Fleischmann (743) Lt. d. R. Dreyer Lt. d. R. Dr. Brammertz Lt. d. R. Harrach Lt. d. R. Heilmann Lt. d. R. Betz (118) Lt. d. R. Mackh ++ Lt. d. R. Wirsing Lt. d. R. Koeppen (255) Lt. d. R. Dietlein(709) Lt. d. R. Jäger W. Lt. d. R. Streil Lt. d. R. Mooseder Lt. d. R. Westrum Lt. d. R. Stumm Lt. d. R. Send Lt. d. R. Leberle Lt. d. R. Breitschwerd Lt. d. R. Borchhardt Lt. d. R. Nissen Lt. d. R. Bernhard Lt. d. R. Jäger D. Most of the Part 2 officers were previously NCOs

HI, interesting, but I think more the exception than the rule. I am guessing maybe 1 or 2 companies used to enter them, but most did not. I have looked up 15-20 Ring wearers and none of them had the ring entered, so this is a really cool entry.

Hi, The rings were never entered as far as I know.

Muchos Grazias Amigo! His is the ring on the top.

Damn.... When I buy a re searchable item I never start the research until I have the item in my hand... otherwise my superstition says it will get lost in the post.... Last week I just confirmed a few points on ancestry before buying an item, but did not download anything to avoid jinxing it. Now I have the item, and my ancestry access no longer works!!!! :-) If anyone has access, can you please tell me when Franz Schuegraf was wounded? I think it was sometime in November 1917.... Thanks Chris

This belonged to a bavarian Leib Regt Gold Bravery medal winner... but I am not sure what nation it is from. Probably a captured piece....

Sigh...........

I must scale back a bit here... although I did not buy THIS lot, I was in contact with the seller recently. His family was a mish-mash of previous Leiber (including a number of Ring recipients) and he had a bunch of stuff that he really had no idea of what belonged to whom. I ended up buying a small group on ebay that had the ring from one great grandfather, (Checked against my other ring, so i bought the piece not the story) and a map case with a faded name from another great grandfather which I managed to make readable (Ring and gold Bravery medal winner) I used Dons advice "Buy the piece, nit the story" and then having established the pieces were good, was more or less able to figure out the stories fitted as well. So I am happy :-) Almost wish I had bought the first lot, although the price was not realistic and I still dont know why there is no number on the ring.

I wonder why the 10th Bavarian Div badge is so much more difficult to find than the others :-( Super pic Fritz!!!!

Wow.... you are right..... on the Weitze site the whole book section is gone!

In a letter home Andre Cornet wrote.... “How I would like to feel that you are ready, even before it comes, to make if necessary the sacrifice of my life. How I would like to be able to say to myself: “at least they are ready, and if my death would be painful to them, they are resigned to it, resigned in advance.” I also have moments of impatience, especially when I feel myself so full of youth and strength, when I reflect on all that I have abandoned, of work, hopes, all that the future which was smiling at me, at such moments I wish it were all ended. But this morning I began reflecting on what is the life of an individual in comparison with the general peace of all the nations of Europe, nothing. We all know, those of us on the firing line, that tomorrow or the day after, we too will probably follow the others. Well, so let it be if God wills it…… In fact, as I was just saying to Major Barberot, who left me a moment ago, what are our lives worth when we think of the years of happiness and of peace of those who will follow us and those who may survive us? We labor for tomorrow, in order that there may be no more wars, no more spilling of blood, no more killing, no more wounded, no more mutilated victims; We labor, we whom our mothers will so weep for, in order that other Mamas may never know these bitter tears…. If I must die, I ask but once grace, and that is to die at the head of my company, without my knowing it, from a bullet in my heart. Oh, above all things, may I receive no ball in the abdomen which might cause me to writhe in pain and die little by little.” (1st January 1915) "At 4:00am on the 1st of March 1916 a German artillery shell landed behind the French lines, in the Bivouac are the men of the 1st Company. A piece of shrapnel struck Captain André Cornet-Auquier in the thigh. The splinter continued into his abdomen and ruptured his intestines. Taken to a field hospital he was joined by his sister (a military nurse) and his father who were with him when he died on the 2nd of March 1916. Realizing his life was slipping away he murmured “Mama, mama,” then looked at his father, smiled, and said “It must be accepted, one must submit.” He was buried 2 days later at Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, a large military funeral attended by the Divisional commander. Colonel Baudrand paid him tribute by calling him “A soldier without fear and above reproach” (Un Soldat sans peur et sans reproach).

Niiiice! I am jealous! I like the short Taube round! I have never seen one like that before !

Ahhh... achtung... I said I like them as much, but I would obviously not pay as much... ;-)