Chris Boonzaier

How many possible associations had grey eagles? On Photos they ALL look grey ;-)

Some newspapers of the MGSSA association...

A saxon version of the doc above...

Here is the dude... seems to have been marine arty in WW2... and NSKK

Here are a couple of the documents by the firm Culemann in hannover

And here....

The Printers had Blanks of certain docs that could be used for free text as well. Certain of these Blanks (originals) have been used (IMHO) to fake documents....

12.06.1901 Oberleutnant d. Landw. (Aschaffenburg) Interesting... could he be in the Bavarian ancestry?

Looks a bit overboard.. as if he has added association pins to his jacket

More to follow....

And post cards....

A commercial artist who did not serve in the war, his designs were used by the printers Reichhold and Lang in münchen to make award documents.....

I have a weakness for the work of Siegmund von Suchodolski.... http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegmund_von_Suchodolski

Hi, Gruhle was a medical student before the war and was with the Ski battalion basically from day one, did the whole Vogesen thing, then Tirol, then in December 1915 during the advance in Serbia he had stomache sickness and feet (I assume frostbite?) . By January 1916 he was in Münich and spent the rest of the war working in Hospitals becoming a Feldhilsarzt. Of course I would have liked Verdun in there somewhere,. but the veeery early stuff is nice as well ;-) Will look up the officer today when I get a moment.. need to find the card

8th and 9th of June! http://pierreswesternfront.punt.nl/content/2008/07/belleau-wood

Fantastic as always... and not just a friendly ghost!

Hi, the different colors are for instructiors, crew chief etc. they are a qualification chest badge like a shooting badge.

This page is veeeeeery ineresting...... http://www.anciens-du-ricm.org/20_cont/04-insignes/insignes.html

They are a terrible design. The old one top right is based on a WW1 badge, the new ones on the marksmans/small arms badges (which are fugly)... The thing in the middle is supposed to be a base plate. It is being sold all over as a legion badge, but is not.

Sorry, typo my part... top right we wore in the 90s as well as 70s and 80s... left side must all be new... ugly things....

Top left is the old one... left side apparently new ones?

Here is the full set of medals for Karen S

Some 3rd Jäger... the 2 Blue militärpass joined in 1916...

The EK was for the fighting at the beginning of 1915... I am tending towards the date on the doc being the date the doc was signed and there having been no record of the date when the actual award was made. I am working on this, so will have the answer soon i hope...

OK, Was very happy to get this this week... basically the Genisis of the Gebirgsjäger... a Guy who was in the 1st bavarian Snowshoe Battalion right from the start.....