Chris Boonzaier

That is indeed a big plus!

Just in case anyone is wondering why I have not dispalyed the jacket on a tailors dummy, it is in fact pretty moth eaten, the holes are hidden when folded like this...

I can make out about 50% of it, but they abreviated a lot and I cannot read where he was stationed? Thanks Chris

Nice find, did you have anything else of his?

Are the Red crosses part of the stamping or added by the factory?

My last contact with a Bundeswehr Clergyman.... just as an interlude.... I bought together a group of medals on various auctions on Ebay.... I missed one medal with its document.... the only thing between a split group and a group held together for almost 100 years was this medal and doc, value maybe EUR150. The buyer was a priest, ex Bundeswehr Clergyman. I figured if EVER there was a man who would understand my "holy mission" to keep a soldiers group together, it would be him. Especially because he did not really care about the man or the medal as such, he simply wanted an example for his collection. I made variouis offers, including the same medal and a doc to another man, AND about EUR500 in trade on top... There was no logical reason in the world for him to refuse, either financial, interest in the man, interest in history.... As a collector with an interest in history, or simply because I am a nice guy, if someone wanted to complete a group, and obviously placed great value on completing it, and I had a comman a sht award and doc missing from the group, I would with no second thoughts sell it to him at my buying price (He paid over market anyway), or take a 1 to 1 exchange on the same medal and doc to another guy (would not even take all the stuff offered on top) I am at an absolute loss as to how someone can be so closed to the thought of helping someone and allowing a group to be completed ... with no loss to him at all. Anyway, my only contact with the field clergy sind 1993 ...

Hi, more likely that an Austrian/Hungarian/Foreign thingy was on the ned and removed? I am guessing one of the postwar ones you had to apply for?

Nice selection... but didn't the Bavarian Fieldarty have a nice pointy infantry like haube at the begining of the war? :-)

Hi, thanks ;-) I wonder why they used 2 forms of "G" ?

Hi, Agreed, Reichswehr. I tend to slip into the trap of using a generic "Freikorps" for everything in that era I have a number of Garde EK2s and 1s awarded in 1919, but most seem to have had WW1 Service, so one can argue it was simply a late award, this was the first one where the guy had it black on white that he was not involved in action during the war, so I am happy with the Berlin connection.. Best Chris

This young man saw no combat in WW1, but did serve in Charlottenburg until November 1919... I assume his EK2 was for Freikorps actions? Any thoughts? Thaks Chris

I found a nice way to display all my association badges with an old tunic as a backdrop :-)

Muchos Grazias!

Here are 2 variations of the doc, they are not that sexy, but a nice enough unit ;-)

Its hard to pick one, but this may be as close as a mortal gets..... The 1870 EK2 doc to the later Generalfeldmarschall Hermann von Eichhorn. He was the highest ranking German officer to be killed during the war.... You can see the status he gave to his EK2 and WW1 awarded EK1 on what he wore on his photos.... a small side collection includes some of the postcards sold with him on them, magazine cover, official funeral Photo etc.....

Hi, as the wife is forcing me to downsize and I am getting a trade box ready, I came accross the following.... I just wanted to make sure, they are Crimean Era 4th and 5th class? Thanks Chris

For unknown reasons they did the same in both Archive entries!

I found him... Oberjäger "Gussan" Gebert or Oberjäger "Gust" Gebert Ancestry do not seem to figure out his first name either. From Silesia he was initially in a Gebirgs MG Abteilung before transfering to the 4th Schneeschuh Battalion of the 3rd Jäger... Took a lot of digging to get that, and I an still not sure what the first name is....

Hi, jup indeed, just a couple of days before he left the Regiment. It must be Oberj. XXXX Geberts I thought the 1st name started with a G, but it cannot be :-( Starts with a J I think.....

Ahhhh... you are pretty anspruchsvoll! You want to SEE it as well!! ;-)

Hi, can anyone have a stab at this guy 1st name? I cant make out the unit either, but if he is Bavarian I would be able to nail it with the first name. (It is within the 3rd Jäger Regiment) Thanks Chris

Paul, 3 posts, Jon 2 Posts.... Whoever makes it to 100 posts first will get a beer from me (I will drink it for you as well !) Welcome both!!

Ach! Yup, I missed that, your are probably right. Best Chris

Hi, It would probably have something to do with the runup to this.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Schleswig_War All the best Chris

Could it have been modified for a German rifle? As an Ersatz Bayonet?