Chris Boonzaier

The stamp seems funny.... and last week a collector described basically the same item to me over the phone...but stamped 1918 and with smooth buttons.... For some reason I think a small stock of jackets from XXX have appeared and will be on sale...

And a 1919 letter asking him to join the Reichswehr, there is a desperate shortage of officers as they are all caught up in the Freikorps etc... http://gmic.co.uk/index.php/topic/60176-freikorps-versus-reichswehr/

Here are the bills for kitting himself as an officer... http://gmic.co.uk/index.php/topic/60177-dressing-up-an-officer/

An unusual document to his father saying they want to promote him, but they need an income gaurantee from the fathe to finance the costs of being an officer (reading between the lines) http://gmic.co.uk/index.php/topic/60178-unusual-document-indeed/

Here are some combat reports etc....

Here are what I assume are map overlays of the Telephone Line network in 1918 for the Division....

He did make it into the Telegraphen truppen and was a 19 Year old Lt de Res... EK1 and 2...

This woulda been a great group to discuss :-) When he was 17 (in 1915) he wrote to about 10 Units asking each to accept him as a volunteer/ersatz Reservist.... all except one wrote back saying "thanks, we are full...)

This was quite intersting, I thought it was only victorian officers who had to be able to fund their own costs ... this is to a father saying his son should become a reserveofficer but has no assured private income/status... and that his father has to come up with the loot to supplement him before he can be commissioned.... makes you wonder how many deserving NCOs were not promoted as they could not gaurantee the income....

Officers clothing card

suitcase

This looks like Leinen Bluse, <Stiefel something, Something else about Bluse

Tschako, then what i assume are Tschako related items, then one pair of Silver shoulder boards, and 2 pairs of grey ones......

I think 3 times handschue... cant read the last one...

Sword, sword belt, Stiefel something? Pair of spurs and pair of Spur leather?

The clothing bills of a newly promoted Lt d. Res. Bluse with high collar and Kragenspiegel, 2 pairs of Spiegel Beinkleid

This is quite interesting, the reichswehr clamouring for officers because the Freikorps and Grenzschutz have grabbed them all... What was also interesting, they dont classify the Zeitfreiwilliger as Freikorps... i hought they were....

Nice to see more of your work!! The guy is a twin of a guy I used to work with!!

Do tell!!

Very cool... I wonder what Germans did to get the swedish one.... I have bavarian leib Regt guy who had one.....

Hi Peron, There were many unnamed ones, they were issued unnamed and many probably stayed that way. Ones to French soldiers were also unamed...

Bloody hell Jock, for a WW2 collector you do turn up nice WW1 stuff!

I have many books on CD, but have really lost track of what I have and where they are... as a result, they are seldom used, . I think it may be best to go "old school" and on top of that, I guess it is not high gloss Photo paper that is needed.... Buyers will want the info, not the layout ... As Rick used to say.... Paper is really the only way to go... I would think along the lines of 2 large telephone book sized/Type volumes... maybe not as optically pleasing as a 5 volume bound leather set, but praticle and cheap to print.... and go EXPENSIVE... you are not selling the book quality, but the reseach put into it.... The market may be limited, but there would be a group of people willing to pay the price....

My jealousy borders on criminality!

Replacement hardwear or not, I like all three of them.... Nice pick ups!