Chris Boonzaier

That is about as rare as rare can be.... how many General Staff officers could they have had?

I just saw this today.... I realise people can join when they are younger than 18, but did not know they could be sent into combat? The Foreign Legion takes 17 and a half, but by the time they are trained and land up in a unit they would be 18. Even with huge personnel shortages you usually find German soldiers in WW1 (even in 1918) were over 18 before landing at the front... So 2 KIA at 17 years of age really surprised me here... 38 years ago today and over the next couple of days .... Men of 3 PARA were fighting in the battle for Mount Longdon. 23 men were killed, Two of the dead – Privates Ian Scrivens and Jason Burt – were only seventeen years old, and Private Neil Grose was killed on his 18th birthday. R.I.P Airborne Warriors. In remembrance of all 3 Para and attachments killed in action during the 1982 campaign :- Pte, Richard (Dickie) Absolon. MM, killed in action. Pte Gerald Bull, killed in action. Pte Jason Burt, killed in action. Pte Jon Crow, killed in action. Pte Mark Dodsworth, killed in action. Pte Anthony Greenwood, killed in action. Pte Neil Grose, killed in action. Pte Peter Hedicker, killed in action. LCpl Peter Higgs, killed in action. Cpl Stevie Hope, killed in action. Pte Tim Jenkins, killed in action. Pte Craig Jones, killed in action. Pte Stewart Laing, killed in action. Cpl Chris Lovett MID killed in action. Cpl Keith McCarthy, killed in action. Sgt Ian McKay VC, killed in action. Cpl Stewart McLaughlin, killed in action. LCpl James (Doc) Murdoch, killed in action. LCpl Dave Scott, killed in action. Pte Ian Scrivens, killed in action. Cfn Alex Shaw, REME, killed in action. Pte Philip West, killed in action. Cfn Alex Shaw, killed in action. Cpl Scott Wilson, 9 Para Sqn RE, killed in action. Wounded in Action: Pte Danny Blair, gunshot wound. Pte Richard Etches, gunshot wound. Pte David Poole, gunshot wound. Pte Andrew Smith, gunshot wound. Pte Frank McWilliams, gunshot wound. LCpl John Hare 9 Sqn, gunshot wound. LCpl Michael Stanton, gunshot wound. LCpl Stephen Harnden, gunshot wound. Pte Frank MacWilliams, gunshot wound. Pte Lee Fisher, shrapnel wound. Cpl Brian Milne, mine explosion, loss of leg. Pte Peter Hindmarsh, gunshot wound. Sgt Pete Gray, gunshot wound. Pte Kev Eaton, gunshot wound. Pte Simon Clark, gunshot wound. Pte Julian Barrett, gunshot wound. Pte Michael (mushrooms) Bateman, gunshot wound. Pte Dennis Dunn, shrapnel wound. Pte Stuart Grey, shrapnel wound. LCpl Steve Wright, gunshot wound. Pte James Brebner, shrapnel wound. Pte James O’Connell, gunshot wound. Cpl Paddy Rehill, gunshot wound. Pte Sid Fuller, shrapnel wound. Pte Keith Taff Parry, gunshot wound. Pte Dave Kempster, multiple gunshot wounds, loss of arm. Lt Andy Bickerdike, gunshot wound. Cpl Ian Bailey MM, gunshot wound. Pte Jeff Logan, gunshot wound. Cpl Ned Kelly, gunshot wound. Pte Mick Cullen, gunshot wound. Pte Mick Swain, gunshot wound. Capt Giles Open Smellie, gunshot wound. LCpl Roy Bassey, mine explosion, loss of foot. Cpl Paul Roberts, flash burns to eyes from mine explosion. LCpl Lenny Carver, gunshot wound. Pte Dominic Gray, gunshot wound. Cpl Graham Heaton, gunshot wound, loss of leg. Pte Frank O`Regan, gunshot wound. Cfn Clive Sinclair, Laceration to skull LCpl Garry Cripps, shrapnel wounds. Pte Chris Dexter, shrapnel wounds. Pte Bill Metcalfe, gunshot wound. Capt Adrian Logan, shrapnel wound. Cpl Phil Skidmore, shrapnel wounds. LCpl Roger James, shrapnel wounds. Pte Grant Grinham, multiple shrapnel wounds, loss of leg. . Pte Andy Steadman, shrapnel wound. Pte Dean Coady, shrapnel wound.. Pte Mark Blaine, shrapnel wound. Pte David Goldsmith, shrapnel wound. Pte Alan Sparrock, shrapnel wound. Pte Mark Meredith, shrapnel wound. Cpl Jerry Phillips, multiple shrapnel wounds. Cpl Mark Brown, shrapnel wounds. LCpl, Denzil Connick multiple shrapnel wounds, loss of leg. EVERY MAN AN EMPEROR

That looks interesting! Is it general staff??

I just completed the Bavarian Jäger setup.... The Greatcoat is a scarce "Fähnrich" Greatcoat... as a Fähnrich was supposed to become an officer, they had privately purchased double breasted Greatcoats which could be turned into officers by simply moving the buttons . Here is a study front and back

And so it grows.......

Hey... what a coincidence! I once saw Harvey Keitel... thought about asking for an autograph... but did not.... they would look good together in a frame!

Imagine if the Germans passed the same law and demanded everything back! ?

Unfortunately this guy had a thing for toothless old women, all peasant, but none pleasant.. ?

If only the dude had known that "Falling down Serbian House " ... "Old peasant woman" ... "Road near Rheims" do not ad value to an album in 2020 he would have condentrated nore on military themes

We read the Austrians awarded the Edelweiss to the Alpenkorps, and 15 000 (I think it was 15) were ordered... It only struck me recently... how likely was it that these were not ordered in Austria but In Germany? We seldom see an Alpenkorps Soldier wearing an Austrian one and although we see a number of Variations the standard one seems to be the 6 pollen one, which in turn is the standard Deschler one? Can we assume the initial ones were ordered in Bavaria?

Hi, they are from 2 photoalbums, I think taken by the Korps Photographer and the members of the Korps could order Photos... Many are of things that do not really interest us nowdays, but they cover Tirol, Serbia and the first couple of months in France 1916

Kraft, Spiegel, Tutschek

That is a question for a champion.... Usually you can figure out the writing by having a "feeling" for what it could be... I am guessing one of those old names none of us has ever heard before...

That is just fantastic.... must have been a strange feeling to be in occupied Paris during the war... great grouping!! Are you sure the father was not Jean and the Mother XXXX Maria?

I think we have to take into account that in the zusammenbruch time there may have been things for which the records are somehow missing... And the question is... would the Abwicklungsamt gardekorps have made errors? Would be interesting to know where Feldlazarette 69 was stationed

The problem with the 12th is the following.... Gem. K.M. v. 22.08.1918 wurden zwei Sturm-Komp. aufgelöst. Gem. K.M. v. 09.10.1918 wurde das Bataillon aufgelöst The 12th was already half disbanded by the time he was posted, and fully disbanded before he ever saw combat with his battalion.

Of course post WW1... I just picked this up, the bronze Table medal for Rupprecht comes in a number of variations, sometimes with date, different Obverse and reverse as the years went buy... not as commercial items but as tokens from the prince for "whatevers" from visitors, servants etc..... in the lid of the box is the miniature pin for those who attended his 60th Birthday and a small lion pin which may just be a pin supporting the royal family? Am not sure if it had any specific meaning.

Further...

Originally I thought it may be a 10 from the photos, but it is a 13, it is written twice. I really think that the 13 we know was disolved in March, and reformed so late in the war that the books simply overllooked the formation? P.S. it was in the west, Feldzug gegen Frankreich in September/October/November

According to most sources the SB13 was disbanded/swallowed up by SB12 in March 1918... Was the Battalion recreated in September 1918 and the fact overlooked in the confusion of war, hence not being mentioned in Modern References?

Hi, I think there is a turning point... lets not forget... during the war, fot bavarians... Prussian, Saxon etx were considered "Foreign" awards... if you look at the entries above, there are "bavarian" and "Foreign"... in the 3rd Reich era they were all German.... So a wartime bavarian Bar may be different.... Here is an example... Wilhelm Edenhofer... His pre July 1918 bar... he commanded the 1st bavarian Jäger Brigade for the last couple of months of the war. Very, very close to the one above, other than the Meck Schwerin instead of the friedrichs Kreuz... and notice, no sword devices!

I may be wrong, but i cannot remember seeing a bar with MVOs seperated? They always seem to be next to each other on a bar?

On most bars it seems to be the VO with swords, then directly after the MVO without?

Fantastic guys, thanks! Would the MVO have been on the order of them bein awarded, or would the one with swords take preference for 1st place?

You would be astounded how easy it was to do.... I got two 7 foot poles, mammered some boars onto them, stand it against a wall, have an old pallet as a base, and a chopping block next to it... and it just kinds grows from there.... I can exchange uniforms.... I am getting better and better with the displays.... this was an older one (old, a couple of weeks ago) ... but you just have to take care of details... waited a few weeks for a typical alpine walking stick... am waiting for an old grey woolen scarf for my Jäger....