Chris Boonzaier

Dont tell us you have his medals !!?! :-)

I dont have those Regt Histories, but it is an unusual name, I have a Boer War medal and a WW2 Group to father and son, South Africans namey "Kleynhans", I assume a variation of the name...

Some guys just need a lot of pratice! What unit was he in? Best Chris

No, there was just a Congo one... but that was bad enough :-(

The "Chocolate Bronze color victory star 1941 with a little loop to wear around the neck, which I understand was the womans version...." was the most painful... I have been googling all over and have not seen another :-(

I am sure you will agree that this one had oooooodles of potential.... http://www.kaiserscross.com/136501/358001.html

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Some dramatic stuff...

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Here are a few, first one pretty cool way of wearing the Spange without the cross

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Am not really a WW2 guy, but thought these may tickle....

Thanks, Looks very British in design. What really astounded me was the face, I thought the religion did not allow for things like that???

To finish my rant... the idiot wanted to keep this as part of "Ethiopian Cultural heritage" http://gmic.co.uk/index.php/topic/49622-jordanian-something-or-other/

Hi, I picked this up in Ethiopia... I assume Jordanian?

The "expert" on antiques thought the stars of ethiopia were market place jewellry... a paper ribbon bar...

After spending 10 days in Ethiopia gathering medals, I was blindsided by an idiot at the airport who confiscated most of them. The guy was an idiot as most of the stuff was modern, he pretended he knew what he was doing, but did not. Still, I am the even bigger idiot as i lost my stash, other than these which he said were modern and I could take.... I did loose 2 Distinguished Military Medal of Haile Selassie I and bar, by Mappin & Webb, London and 2 Military Medal of Merit of the Order of St. George which made me want to cry. Also , a Chocolate Bronze color victory star 1941 with a little loop to wear around the neck, which I understand was the womans version.... and about 10 lesser medals... According to the idiot, these were all cultural treasures... but are comman enough at the markets. This is all I managed to get out... The one star ot ethipia is a Mappin and Webb made one which apprantly means it was made during the Iztalian occupation...

Well, you cant have it both ways.... Most of the time they are "too soft on crime..." and when there are complaints because they lash out a bit... "they are too violent". Lets be realistic... if there was a way to complain in 1985 (for example)... dont you think there would have been more? :whistle:

Check out the first dude here... from where HE died, at that date,,, he could not have been in any of the ABvarian Jäger Battalions (1, 2 or 1. Res, 2. Res.) http://www.kaiserscross.com/69501/352901.html

Ooops... Did not see your last post. I assume they were under the command of the Alpenkorps, without being "in" the alpenkorps? I think the 187 IR had the same deal in this sector. Same as at Verdun at the end, the Alpenkorps was there till a certain date, but their Regiments had left a month earlier and there were a couple of other regiments fighting under the Divisions staff. best Chris

Thanks Dave, So he was killed in a sector that the Alpenkorps was fighting in and the family made a slight error when ordering the death cards by making his regt part of it. I would have thought it was a rarer name. Best Chris

There is more folks.... http://www.kaiserscross.com/152301.html

Here is another Mystery man... either the Regt does not fit... or the division...

The strange thing about ancestry.com... I saw all the branches of Service they were scanning for the Bavarian records... but for some really strange reason they forgot "Jäger" on the list... I really hope they are not going to overlook them... I did not find any contact adress or email on the site to allow me to question this.