Chris Boonzaier

I would guesse the Bars MAY be from the same guy, but the medals replaced? It was a lot of money back then to always buy a new one with new medals.... usually a tailor would make a ribbon bar, but slavage the old medals and remount them... not all guys were made of money back them. Best Chris

Oooooooooooohhhhh Boy!!! Just got back from a hastily cobbeled together tour of some battlefields.... Some especially related to this group... Really fantastic... watch this space!!!!!

Salut!! Bienvenue!!

Hi, He had a WW1 EK2, EK1, Bavarian MVK and WW1 Wound. I did not speak to the family, but have some papers from them with the locations listed. Best Chris

OCD ??

Hi, from what can see, the regt was really short lived, disolved in 1940 already, according to a family chronic he served in Poland, France, Belgium, Holland, Finland, Hamburg etc, and ended the war as a major, after a short spell in a Brit POW camp.

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This is an intresting little book....

very nice indeed!!

Agreed... I am not one of the #Never clean# brigade... but this one is what it is... should stay that way....

Indeed... a very interesting man indeed. The internet provides the possibility of making sure info reaches anyone interested in the subject.

Very interesting! http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c2#/video/world/2012/08/28/new-zealand-defense-force.new-zealand-defense-force

Veeeery nice indeed!!

I think that the badge became accepted as "alpenkorps" irrespective of if one served in 1915 or not. I remember seeing photos to men of a reserve infantry regt attached to the alpenkorps later in the war... and the men adopted the Edelweiss!!

ha ha.... I am off on holiday for 3 weeks... take yer time ;-)

oooooohhhh.... lets see!!!!!

The question is... the guy doing the books cover, did he have a real one to use in the design, or did he just take an edelweiss?

I had a Chetnik moment a few years ago.... Looking for a cheap B+B in London I booked the Ravna Gora in >Nottinghill I thought it would be an Indian or Pakistani B+B from the name. When i got there it turned out that "Ravna Gora" is a name pulled out of Chetnik history, the house itself was the Chetnik HQ in London during the war, there are still old statues and photos on the walls. It now serves as a B+B with a very friendly Serb lady running the show... the dingy Basement pub is run by her husband and consisted of Serb Expatriats in Cammo T-Shirts, playing pool and talking about the early 90s (it seemed)... If you have a Chetnik interest and need a place to say in london... it is a couple of hundred meters from Portobelo road...

I really, really, really like that thought ... :-)))))

This is better... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7940540.stm

Hi, it is here... http://www.wargravesheritage.org.uk/records.html

Apparently they discovered an archive at the red cross in Geneva where wounds, POWs etc. etc... were stored. I imagine they were the hub that this info was exchanged over. I read somewhere that they wanted it all online by 2014

Made to just fit the bathroom cabinet...

My favourite shavers... and they shave really well... Gebr. Christians of Solingen... they made razors until about 1920... the top one is a monster from around 1900 and shaves like a dream...

You will of course notice this is the same artist and Printer as the Sturmbataillon Rohr Docs... This one was handed out in December 1918... It was ordered on Company Level, ist MG Company of the 15 RIR, what is very unusual, the Lt had the printers do a seperate doc for each man... his name and date of award are PRINTED along with all the other details... the Lt just signed and stamped them.... an expensive and nice way of doing it... Only thing that bugs me, why this cheesy design... the border post and farming implement looks soooooooo 1914ish... Still, rare and desirable doc, it came with his Militärpass. Seller was a gentleman and gave me a decent price... happy to give it a good home!