Chris Boonzaier

I like the color on this nice early helmet...

Hi Jonas, that is inteesting!! I wonder if someone added an old cross/Lid to the mug?? Here is the 1l mug in action....

Here is a nice shot of a bavarian officer with a green collar...

Hi Dave, thanks, for some reason I could not log in to look on ancestry. Best Chris

Hi, Does anyone have a record of a bavarian Leutnant Herzog, probably in the 1st or 2nd heavy Cavalry regiment ? Thanks Chris

Thanks, I had forgotten that thread. Bloody gunner earned his pay that day....

I vaguely rememember reading that 3 winners were killed by a single artillery shell in 1917-18, but have not been able to find the passgae again.... can anyone confirm this? Thanks Chris

Very nice indeed!!

Ouch.... 251 Divisions rates the Bavarian cavalry division as 4th class :-(((

Sorry, Mea Culpa, I meant Lorraine ;-) Jup, it has its liner. also has a couple of names scratched out, but a "MGK" is just visable

Hi, how do you figure the connection between the trrop and the 4th Division? BestChr is

Hi, a French collector confirms that this is a Bavarian schwerer Reiter with a non regulation green collar. It is a difficult Tunic to identify as the total number of men in the Bavarian Heavy Cavalry was just 2 battalions, or just two thirds the size of an infantry regiment. Each of the two Regiments was under 700 men, about the size of an Infantry Battalion. I found one period color drawing of an officer wearing this kind of jacket with the same piping and swedish cuffs, unfortunately he is attached to the Flying branch and he is just described as a beobachter. If the original owner had been happy with a field grey collar it would have been easier, but all in all I am pretty happy... they may not have been infantry, but its better than artillery :-) The Nigel Thomas book says "The two bavarian Heavy Cavalry Regiments (1 and 2) had Bavarian Infantry Uniforms, but the M1909 heavy cavalry field tunic had swedish cuffs..."

Indeed it is, I picked it up a few years ago from a well known MG fanatic in Alsace :-)

The really nice thing about this one is the good condition of the original green paintwork underneath...

Here is a nice one, no idea which unit though...

Hi, I have only ever seen a bad photo of thr regular one, have never seen a real officers one, or even a photo of one.

Hi Andreas, in the Leiber History it says Für die Offiziere wurde der Ring in etwas andere Ausführung geschaffen. Der von professor Schegerle modellierte silberne Ring zeigt einen Löwenkopf. Innen ist der Ring vergoldet und trägt das Monogram ILR. It seems it was for just under 60 officers.

But I am talking about flies!

Its a bir like Regimental Histories... you always see tons and tons... but not just the ones you need... Murphy's law ;-)

Does anyone have any Alpenkorps ones to share? :-)

The Ring is my dream... it was exclusively for people who had a certain amount of real combat time (I think it was 24 months? I forget... when i am back near my books I can look)... I would kill for an other ranks one, and kill twice for an officers one (Have not even seen a pic of the latter!!!)

A nice document given at acceptance into the association...

Maybe a number of men in Spirit River had trios... so in a case of one upmanship, he moved it to first place? Best Chris

Indeed, there was some kind of agreement with POWs over a certain age that had been POWs for a certain period of time could be sent to switzerland.... apparently the conditions were often harsher than the POWs camps they had been in up until then.....

I dont know, they were long Johns, stamped to an uhlanen regiment, maybe 1912 or 1913... tons of stamps etc... am sure it was good.... but after reading theis... I am not sure if I wanted it.... Keep cutting the cheese, America. A British line of fart-filtering underwear is doing big business, and it has the United States to thank for it. "Americans are making up the majority of our sales at the moment," Shreddies spokeswoman Ianthe Betts-Clarke told The Huffington Post. Since word about the odor-neutralizing Shreddies passed through the Internet a few days ago, the company has experienced a 400 percent increase in orders over all, Betts-Clarke estimated. Shreddies weaves a carbon cloth called Zorflex into its rear panel. Betts-Clarke says it can squash the smell of "200 times the average flatulence emission." (Shreddies apparently hasn't met my Aunt Edna.)