Chris Boonzaier

Hi, here you go....

Possible, but unnesesarry cost? The Kyffer had to go anyway on the 3rd reich bar... Would have taken a tailor a few minutes to exchange the Kyffer for an Ehrenkreuz.... much cheaper than ordering a totally new bar, especially because the bar is in pretty good condition. I think we exchange things much easier nowdays than back then.

Don seems to be the eagle eye... I must admit i had wondered why the Ehrenkreuz ribbon had been removed... I had so much happening this week I did not really look closely... indeed the Ehrenkreuz is too high... As per Dons Suggestion, I measured it up with a kyffhäuser medal... it fits perfectly from the height. Alos, reading the letter, the group came with EK1 and 2, bremen Cross, Wound badge in Silver, and 2 awards that the man did not recognise... (The Oldenburg)... I suppose the Ehrenkreuz was added along the way to complete it. So, based on logic, but not proof, I am guessing it is a case of the Kyffer being removed... and for whatever reason, he did not get around to applying for or at least mounting the Ehrenkreuz...

Magic Dave! I am guessing he was posted to the 73rd After his March 1917 wound. I wonder if he is the officer that took over Ernst Jüngers Company? Lets say he was wounded in March, hospital and Ersatz kompagnie... Jünger says a new Dienstältester officer from the Ersatz Kompagnie took over the kompany in July 1917. Haverkamp was wounded in Flanders, and the next Chapter Jünger has the company again. The fact that Haverkamp turned up in Jüngers Dugout to go on a "drunken patrol" would seem to imply they were in the same company as it is doubtful an officer would cross company lines for something like that...

Hi, very interesting!! I wonder which Meybauer award lost its furniture??

I am not a big buckle guy.... but I would be weary of this one... it seems to be terrible quality...

Hi, I am guessing a Kyffer... if he recieved the 3rd reich civil servant, he would have recieved a Hindy before that... Most logical is a Kyffer , removed when they were forbidden... then never having the bar finished... He died in 1955, so he must have got a Hindy...

I am all ears... Whats your take? My personal guess has been that an association/veterans medal was mounted post WW1, them removed... and he never got around to finishing it.

Keep going!!! There is a prize at 5000 !!! Thanks Andy, You are doing well!!!!

Just happened to get this as it is part of a group... apparently wartime ones were all iron and Brass/Bronze ones are postwar?

Here is Hauptmann Junker from the same regiment also with the Oldenburg Cross

Here are some better shots

All that info is a bit complicated for me... lets cut to the chase... who gets to nail Megan??

If I was a buyer, i would want proof before I lay out my cash. As an Observer I can afford to keep an open mind. Stellenbesetzungen are great, but are only for a certain date... what was once week before and one week later fall through the cracks... http://gmic.co.uk/index.php/topic/63026-fusilier-regiment-73-leutnant-fritz-haverkamp/ See above... he is not listed as one of the officers... was however at lease 4-5 months in the regiment.... And that is not an isolated case....

Indeed... I seem to remember reading that the Spieß in an armoured unit in WW2 was usually not allowed to wear a Panzer Wrapper as these were restricted to panzer Crews...

That is really breathtakingly fantastic!

OK, I wired up the plates.... the straps and pads are there but with some tears and rather fragile....

maybe not as nice as some of those shown... but I was happy to see the postman!! RV marked on the lower 2 plates....

Hi Paul, this one not, he lost his leg in 1917, and was not Bavarian. Best Chris

and I have... did not know I had it.... In this one a few months earler, haverkamp and another officer come out of the rest area, somewhat drunk, and announce they have decided to go on a patrol. There is lively shooting in sector and Jünger reports that the Patrol consited of then going out to fetch parachute flare silk and engage in a game of catch around the obstacles in front of the French lines while the French shot at them. After a long while they entered their own lines safe and sound. Jünger comments that they had been protected by Bacchus... or the English Version... "God looks after drunks and small children"

Here are some details.... http://gmic.co.uk/index.php/topic/63026-fusilier-regiment-73-leutnant-fritz-haverkamp/

I found the 1924 "Storm of Steel " online, where haverkamp is mentioned just once, apparently in the 1934 edition it is twice... needless to say... i need to find a 1934 edition ;-)

Here is Haverkamp listed as wounded...

Here is the group.... http://gmic.co.uk/index.php/topic/63115-storm-of-steel-medal-group/

I was lucky enough to pick up this group to an officer who served a short while with Ernst Jünger and apparently has 2 mentions of him in the 1934 edition of Jüngers book.... It was to Leutnant Fritz Haverkamp.