Chris Boonzaier

After many wars the french and germans finally sealed the peace by working together to create one of the worlds 10 greates inventions... The Laugencroissant, it incorporates the best of germany with the best of france.... and will assure peace for decades to come.....

Hi, Agreed, but maybe a different von Manstein? But it could also be Pontius....

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=14723 Could the signature me Von Manstein?

Hi, Sorry, no mention. I did however fing 5 page hits to a Hauptmann whose EK2 doc i have :-)))

I agree with tony... float it in WD40

I wonder if it would still be legal to put "Freebies" in ciggie packs nowdays?

Thats the part I had pegged aswell ;-)

I bet you can put your eye out with that one !!!! Nice looking weedeater.

Of course.... the added bonus for moi is the Height 304/Dead man entries from Verdun...

I have 2 EK docs to Stabswache NCOs, both are hand written ones where the superior winged it on the text. The Stabswache did not have the usual routine of issuing docs like the inf regts did. I can read about 80% of this... does anyone want to have a go at translating it all? Anyone know who signed?

The man in question did his national service in the 1st garde uhlanen Regt, when the war broke out he landed in the Stabswache of the 22nd reserve Korps. The Group has what looks to be a leather wallet that was an Xmas gift from the men of the Freiwillige-Autokorps attached to the 22nd. Our guy, shown in prewar photos, served in the Stabswache of the Korps.

Thank god Queenie looks Human again... The last few medals have had her looking like a Hobbit with a garbage can on her head. This one looks pretty good. The cheese block side is rather crappy compared to the classic british obverses.

Ironic that I should think of botha as maybe the greatest South African.... But that my Great-grandfather destroyed him politically... He was a political cartoonist from the newspaper "Die Burger"... "In 1941 the internationally known political cartoonist Daniel Cornelius Boonzaier,father of the celebrated artist Gregoire, left the mouthpiece of the National Party, Die Burger. Honiball had big boots to fill indeed, for DC Boonzaier was known as the man who destroyed the political career of Louis Botha, toppling him as premier of South Africa by means of an almost cruel lampooning campaign. Honiball, a gentle soul by comparison, initially tried to continue in Boonzaier?s style of cartooning, making use of the Jewish capitalist character Hoggenheimer that Boonzaier had created and used to great effect. But not for long. Honiball had no love for politics, but he was an artist with his own very distinctive creative style. While his predecessor was feared but respected, Honiball was respected, yet never quite feared ? nor hated."

Nice thread... once again, something new to learn about.

Hi Chris... See post 11 and drool ;-) http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=1399...mp;#entry143178

I have just bought a book published in 1937 by a Bavarian Military chaplain. It lists all the WW1 Bavarian Chaplain and Clergymen who served in WW1 and includes all their units and decorations. Strangley enough, it seems they all recieved the EK on a black ribbon, which kinda reinforces my theory (to me anyway) that the white ribbon is technically (in Ww1 at least) not really to non -combattants, but rather to officials in NON COMBAT AREAS ... ie. homefront. Non combattants seem all to have recieved the black ribbon if they were in combat areas... or does anyone have any info to the opposite?

Yesterday I bought an invaluable research source, and very rare. It is a copy of the index for the 36 volumes of the Reichsarchive history of WW1. In it are 16 000 names of mainly officers, but also other ranks who are mentioned in the books. Also the volume and page number. I am renovating at the moment and honestly dont have time to do any research, but if you have a name and want me to see if there is a mention in the Reichsarchive... post the name here on the thread and I will tell you volume and page number (No blocking up my PMs!!!). the actual looking up you will have to do yourself as I am under wet wallpaper and crap. Please limit it to 10 names at a time (Some folks may have a single name, but if someone else had posted this, I would have had about 500 names for them, so lets keep it to 10 a batch for those who have a bunch). All the best Chris

I thought Don Frailey was a huge Kriegsmarine collector? Did not know he did Imprial stuff as well?

OK, got it. The advatnages of an international membership... seeing and getting something explained that probably noone else in Bavaria even knows exists... Good stuff!

It is one of the few WW1 classics from the german side that is availible in English... but then only inold editions.

I think its a prerequisite for getting a medal ;-) Can we assume he lived in India? Or could folks living in Britain also become I.A.R.O. ? All the best Chris

Hi, the copy of the battalion war diary also has him listed as Dhan Jit The raid carried out by "All volunteers & Gurkhas" according to the war diary. I assume this means all the volunteers were gurkhas, not that the raiding party consisted of Volunteers AND Gurkhas. There is also a Havildar Pusan Bahadur listed as being on the raid.

Hi, He is in the LG on the 1 Feb 1919 2nd Lt Charles Winton, I.A.R.O. attd 1st Q.V.O. Corps of Guides, Infy., I.A.. the action was in Egypt. The CO recomended Winton for the MC and Dhan Jit for the IOM, but he recieved the IDSM

Hi Ed, The info was from the history of the corps of guides, so it seems he was serving WITH the guides (which I find confusing, as the Kukri bit is in there) .....Havildar Dhan Jit was awarded the IDSM for the same raid... in the book there was a group photo off officers from 1918, 3 of whom were unidentified, but I think one or two where wearing MC ribbons. Unfortunately it was not possible to copy this picture as the reading room was worried about copyright.

Here is hiy MC....