Chris Boonzaier

"Chris - some nice medals. About 4000 pounds for the Anglo Boere Oorlogs. Your set with the Troue Dienst and the ABO are in the wrong order. The DSO precedes the others and the two late award Boer Medals at the end. Mervyn" Hi, You old colonialist you!! ;-) This is the official mounting order. South African regulations show it as such, as do period photos. For south African troops, DTD ranks above DSO, MC, MM, DCM etc. ABO comes before Natal Medal or WW1 Service awards. Best Chris

Is that French?

Is that an exact match to mine, other than the hook??

Looks like Lekst

I will dig out the brothers pics this afternoon....

Then his Wound badge.. by now the unit is "1. Sturm Abteilung (Wagner)"

Then his EK1 doc.....

Then from the regiment for the same award.. this one actually very clse to the Sturm Bataillon Rohr doc... same printer...

I was very pleased to get the following this week, they have travelled more than many people I know.... 2 Brothers in the Sturm Abteilung of the 6th Garde Infanterie Division... Many units were designated as Sturm Units in the last year of the war, but this is the first Officially designated one with its own docs I have found so far...... First off, a very interesting one for Gefreiter Otto Thiels of the Sturm Abteilung ... signed by a Feldwebel leutnant.... for his EK2

My cigar baby....

Wow... that IS interesting!! Thanks for the link :-))) The German terms Nachrichten and Nachrichtendienst are not easy to translate. Nachricht can mean "news", "information", "message", but also "intelligence". In the era discussed here, a Nachrichtendienst can mean a news agency as well as an intelligence service. The contemporary military terminology was confusing as well. While the secret intelligence department of the OHL was called Sektion, later Abteilung IIIb, the department responsible for intelligence assessment was referred to as Nachrichtenabteilung. IIIb’s intelligence officers attached to the armies were the Nachrichtenoffiziere, while the armies’ G2-officers were (mostly) listed as the Generalstabsoffizier Ic. The technical progress of the signals troops – the Nachrichtentruppe – resulted in a general shift in the use of the term Nachrichten from intelligence to signals. Consequently, in 1917 the Nachrichtenabteilung was renamed Fremde Heere (Foreign Armies), and the Nachrichtenoffiziere had to rename themselves Nachrichtenoffiziere der OHL in order not to be confused with the Nachrichten-Referenten, the Staff Officers Signals, who in the meantime had become attached to the armies on a permanent base. Put another way, there might be many cases in the history of intelligence where the renaming of institutions simply served the purpose of masking institutional continuities. But in the cases discussed here, the shift in terminology is an excellent indicator for the profound and rapid changes which the military institutions underwent between 1914 and 1918.

Bavarian Feldsprechkdeur 2

34 füsilier regt

32 Landstrm inf in Jun 1918

31 Feld arty regt

31 Bavarian Inf Regt

99IR

I found these in a box in my study, many years between picking up the one and the other... they look to be the same maker?

This was part of one of the most interesting groups I have ever seen.... Unfortunately I did not get it, but the seller felt guilty and I got the mans Beer mug and the 2nd EK1 from the group. it is flat, for all intents and purposes an issue piece, but with a "800" stamp under the hook and a Y under the needle. So far i have only seen Y on EK2s.... has anyone else got one like this?

Little field/Hospital religious book...

Having all sorts of docs signed by him, i find that to be maybe one of the top 2 or 3 bars i would kill to own ;-)

An unmarked one courtesy Woeschler-orden

Ignore my last mail, thanks... I found it, had not gotten around to processing that one. Muchos grazias!

If anyone has any pics, I need ideas for my bunker....

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