Chris Boonzaier

Thanks Dave, I am a bit surprised he was not one of theold guys who got a Spange for the EK2... I have a doc for a spange to anold Garde NCO who was serving as a storeman in Berlin during the war.... So our guy here would have been just as logical for the award...

Hi Dave, Muchos Grazias.... That provides a few new pieces to the puzzle.... So we can conclude, 2 wounds in as many months... the french dont like Lawyers?

yaou saying Hollywood makes mistakes??

Old Rickers hated Ebay... but my Imperial document collection would be maybe 30% of what it was if i did not have ebay...

Somewhere there is a cabinett photo of him, mounted on card, sepia toned... floating around unidentified on ebay for EUR2 i bet.... :-(

Hi, does anyone have any photos of the regiment, pre 1900 ? Especially officers in parade dress? Thanks Chris

Indeed, I needed a other ranks EK doc for the book project and this one came up buy it now in Ebay for a reasonable price... then the seller said he had more docs... and offered them for a load of money.. I dont really collect "inter war" but wanted to keep the group together and figured "that will get rick jumping..." so I made a counter offer. I am glad we have athers that apprecate it :-) Amd am glad to have kept what was left of the group together. I suppose the KDM for 1870 is missing and maybe some service award documents...

Here is the barraks in 1900

First small lot in the for sale section has sold, Money on the way to Stogieman...

Glenn dug up the following... He retired first time round on 16 December 1899. The voluminous history of KR 7 states he served on the staff of the Kommandantur Berlin during the War and was promoted char. Oberstleutnant on 27.1.16. He is mistakenly shown in the Ehrenrangliste as being a retired officer from KR 8. He was the commander of the Truppensammelstelle Berlin.

In 1878 his patent for the 1871 promotion was written up...

Rote Adler 4th Class with letter of transmittel...

A Anhaltischen Haus-Orden, Albrecht des Bären Commandeur zweiter Klasse

There were less than 700 awards of the anhalt Jubiläums Medal

As an endnote to a few posts... this was a group I was getting together in great anticipation to show it to Rick :-( It arrived today in the mail, so here it is.... Graf Alexander Heinrich Leopold Günther von Reichenbach-Goschütz.... Not usually my collecting field, but cool all the same.... His 1870 EK2 as Portepeefähnrich....

Hi, I am assuming they would have first formed the unit, then recieved the A7V? best Chris

Indeed indeed!!! Will get back to you when I get onto a better computer later today!! :-) Do you collect all and any, or with some kind of system... Units/Battles/ etc..

How on earth did it make its way from Austria to Hollywood to the home of newkie brown ale??

Muchos Grazias Karsten!!

The Baden Zähringer Löwen document was evidently sent to the family some time after the award....

Baden...

Bavarian

While he was wounded... they fell over themselves to get him his medals before he died..... Prussian

Hyazinth Lieber was a Lawyer, a reserve Officer he was wounded in august 1914, then again on the 6th of November. He died in Hospital on the 26th of November 1914.

...so... you gonna keep it?