Chris Boonzaier

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Dave beat me to it... I agree with his lawyerspeak....

"- As a native of Oldenburg that was awarded with the Prussian EKII during the war, he was also entitled to be awarded with the Oldenburg Friedrich August Kreuz 2nd Class." Veeeery interesting.. I take the spirit to be more along the lines of..."There are no more awards... but you have the EK2... so waht the hell... you might as well wear the other as well..." This right was NOT automatically confered... I have a couple of these groups where you can see it was a seperate award. If he was meant to have gotten it automatically... he would have in the war!!!

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So... some more... Once agin thanks guys, this is really importnt for the book 80th Füsilier

Hmmm... I am still of the opinion that they may be making a statement about the Iron Cross itself, as opposed to a political staement. Best Chris

I just found this today... SGA has opened the database of KIA for OPEX up to and including Afghanistan, So I found this mention of a South African and Nepalese Legionnaire killed by friendly fire... http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/World/Story/STIStory_705776.html