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    Chris Boonzaier

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    1. Chris Boonzaier
      The entry into his military pass
    2. Chris Boonzaier
      The paybook that was in his pocket when he was gassed....
    3. Chris Boonzaier
      I bought a group on Ebay, in it was his hard to read diary, his Militaerpass an award docs....
    4. Chris Boonzaier
      I always think of the Gas war as the most terrible part of WW1. In fact, one of the Iron Cross award documents I treasure most (from a historical point of view) is one to a soldier from one of the specialised gas units. But we are not there to read about him today... rather about R. Wahl, a landwehr man who survived about a month and a half at the front before being gassed at Verdun.....
    5. Chris Boonzaier
      as a landwehrmann he seems to have been everywhere other than a landwehr unit
    6. Chris Boonzaier
      and ending the war in a regular infantry regiment again...
    7. Chris Boonzaier
      Having years before been regular infantry?
    8. Chris Boonzaier
      Okay... Wirtschafts komp. Starkstromabt. Res. Inf. Regt. How about some cavalry?
    9. Chris Boonzaier
      I often have the feeling that folks are quick to match initials with names or potential names without having black on white evidence. This seems conclusive. best Chris
    10. Chris Boonzaier
      Hi, The signals guys used a lighter and thinner wire. In frontline areas it was usually strung from tree to tree or above ground on bits of wood. Sometimes buried as well. The starkstrom guys were for electrical current, usually at Army level as they did electrical plants, electric fences, mostly behind the lines stuff. I guess his friends called him "Flash"
    11. Chris Boonzaier
      What is also interesting is the stamp. The unit was probably too small to justify a "real" stamp and seems to be named after the officer commanding it. Obviously such a lowly officer could not award the EK and this is just the standard confirmation doc concerning an award approved the week before by a higher command.
    12. Chris Boonzaier
      If I read correctly, he was in a Wirtschaftskomp. and at the same time in a Starkstromabt. and a Res. inf. Regt... I guess they must have lost track of all his different skills .-)
    13. Chris Boonzaier
      and this...
    14. Chris Boonzaier
      Here is hi EK doc..... a very unusual one indeed....
    15. Chris Boonzaier
      Here is the man....
    16. Chris Boonzaier
      Hi, how many EK1 recipients are listed? Best Chris
    17. Chris Boonzaier
      Hi, Its very definately "Storck" and he was held until 1919... makes me think he was interned for "other" reasons... maybe a spy? He was imprisoned in South Africa, not in the camps on your links. Interesting, from your link von hadeln was one of the very few who were conditionally released... he was wounded, but if this was in DSWA or as a freikorps man I have no idea.
    18. Chris Boonzaier
      Hi, His name was Adolphe Henri Joseph COLIN of the 2e Regiment de Ligne, born on the 20March 1884 in what looks to be "Riviemonde" (Pays Bas) Best Chris
    19. Chris Boonzaier
      Hi Tom... do you know this? http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=9769
    20. Chris Boonzaier
      Hi, His name was indeed Friedrich. There are a few papers in the group from what I assume is his Brother, PLM winner Heinrich von Hadeln. On the web I found a reference to "Von hadeln, Himmlers adjutant" PLM von hadeln died 1940, Friedrich in 48 or so.
    21. Chris Boonzaier
      Hi, nope, a mounted abteilung. I dream of finding a Foto of him.....
    22. Chris Boonzaier
      Hmmmm not the circle jerk of awe I was hoping for :-(
    23. Chris Boonzaier
      I just managed to get his wound badge doc, issued in 1936. am not sure if this was for GSWA or Freikorps as some are awarded for Freikorps actions as well.
    24. Chris Boonzaier
      http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=10820 Here is a link to the docs. If be became a pilot in germany in December 1912, I assume he arrived in GSWA in 1913 or 14? Does that mean it unlikely he got the Denkm?nze? What is really nice is he was in the Southern part of GSWA, on the South African border, involved with the groups of rebels. I am over the moon at having got (most) of this group....
    25. Chris Boonzaier
      And a few letters about his pilots ausweis earned in 1912.
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