Chris Boonzaier

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Here are some pics of the Landwehr IR30 who fought the French and the Yanks in 1918...

Those berets are fantastic... would kill for some like that!!

Nuhn has written a number of books, Herero war, etc but the WW1 one was almost not published. in the end he self published it in 2008, it is A4 size and really, really good indeed.

Hi, Was just lucky to find the raid to SA in a couple of books. By the way.... one book that is current but hard to find is the Walter Nuhn book on WW1 in GSWA "Auf verlorenen Posten".... if you dont have it.. it is a must have!!!!!

In design very close to the French Army ones of that time... I guess Belgium is just a border away....

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Here are some nice pics of him outbreak to mid war....

That is indeed an eye catcher!!! All you need now is the medal bar!!

Hi, I think the checkered bit is the bit of a shell that goes under the driving band. Best Chris

Hi, He was just 20 at the time.... seems to have been an infantry officer pure and simple...

Here is the complete lot.. http://www.kaiserscross.com/246801/421301.html

He was captured in Reims on the 13 October 1914... about 12 days after the 2nd garde Gren had moved on to Arras... so if he was wounded bad enough to be in hospital for 12 days... why no wound badge?

What is also confusing... most googling has him as an officer in the garde Füsilier Regt...

He was commanding the 3rd Company IR67 in 1936 as Hauptmann.... By early 40s he was Hauptmann Dr. v.d. Mülbe... in Wehrkreis 3. I would love to know how he got to Switzerland in 1917... did he escape from the French? He was captured in a field hospital... but has no wound badge.... His award of the EK2 in October 1917 was from the 2nd Garde Grenadier regiment, as was his EK1 in 1919.... He was, according to docs above, not in the regt at the time... Totally confusing !?!?!? I guess I need the regt history...

A million thanks to MJC... His career is veeeery confusing.... It seems he was wounded, then captured in October 1914... Landed up in Switzerland in September 1917, got his EK2 a month later.... Maybe he escaped or was traded? Then in 1919 an EK1. It is a case of more knowledge muddying the waters....

That is fantastic indeed!!!!! My best DSWA item is the doc group to von Hadeln.... http://www.kaiserscross.com/40029/150601.html He actually took part in an "invasion" of the Union :-)

Very nice... classy piece... understated... faint smell of rasberry, a woody palate with a crushed cherry aftertaste.... Nice!

Hi, A nice 8th Leib Grenadier Regiment Militärpass. I think we need to see more of the page in pic 2 on the right in post 3. There is writing to the right of the glued in battle page,this would usually be the awards, wounds etc. Can you get a clearer shot? Thanks Chris

1 million thanks guys, I hesitate to say I just bought his documents as it usually means they get lost in the mail, but I did. Missing unfortunately is the Saxon Meiningen doc :-( But still, its not a bad lot.

Indeed, but at that stage they were still armed largely with G88 and long bayonets I think. By 1908- 09 it was a fraction of that number of troops in GSWA and that is when I see the start of G98 and KS98 bayonets being issued. (Earliest KS98 I have seen is 1906, but most seem to be about 1912... and that was approval stamps in Germany, no sign that they were anywhere near africa in 1906) I am betting the G98 and KS98 were limited to regular troops, and G88 for reserves... and seeing the relative shortage of rifles in Germany 1913-14 it is unlikely they had big stocks squirreled away in GSWA. I think to get an accurate guestimate, of DSWA G98 and KS98 you simply need to look at the regular trrops effectives for 1914 and use it as a rough estimate Best Chris

Here is a pretty cool shot of gunners safe out of range... ;-)

A railway soldier with a Lebel and a nicely packed rucksack

Hi, that does not have to be the case, if the first lot of rifles for GSWA were 1-1000 and the next lot were 2500-3000 then already there is a gap of 1500. Apparently there are GSWA bayonets in the 12 000 range... I doubt there were 12 000 Schutztruppe rifles in DSWA. Best Chris

Here is beyers with the kaiser in Switzerland in 1912