Chris Boonzaier

Hi Andy, Thanks, Gerhard Snethlage sounds like a character from Harry Potter! :-)

Here are some 1918 ones from the same album.....

Rick woulda flipped over this... A Black ribboned EK for service on the homefront.... quite a bit rarer than a white ribbon cross....

Hi, when he died in 1925 all the stuff was given to his Cousin, so there was a mix of his stuff, his cousins stuff and the cousins fathers stuff. I have managed to figure out what belongs to who and will just keep the Jägers stuff. If the other guy had been his brother I would have kept it as well, but a cousin is a bit of a stretch....

Hi, agreed, that may be why they have "Stostrupp " on the back. This is a month before units in the sector were officially designated "Sturmbataillon"...

Hi, can anyone identify this? Is it a private purchase Bavarian Frog? (because of the pointy bottom)

HI, "Stormbataillonns were not attached to Armeekorps, but to armies. " indeed, it developed that way mainly so from 1917, but in 1916, right up until the end of the year there were very different systems of organization, especially in this area. And after that the Divisional Sturm Units trained by Sturmbataillon were also not Army level. As far as the Musik Zug goes, I am guessing Assualt units did not always have a Musik Zug, it could very well be from the local Kommandanture. Leather pants may become symbolic for Sturm Units, but in 1916 early 1917 they seem to be real manglewaren and not often on Divisional level. Werner Lacoste's book "Deutsche Sturmbataillone 1915-18" covers it really well, Going through some end of 1916 SB Rohr Photos... leather trousers seem to be very much the exception in 1916

Absolutely magic Glenn! The work of a master. Thanks!

On leave back home in May1918...

Aaaahhh sorry, my fault, I had not noticed I had cropped to fit the pic in. It was sent in early 1915 and has "Auf Ins Feld - Zum Gebet" ... what i meant is, I think this is the departure of the 18 Reserve Regt, and like all reserve regts its officers came from all over, including Leib regt.

It is a kriegsmetal one that has been denazified, so period, but the swastika removed

Hi, the picklehaube have a number on them, impossible to read. September 16 is still extremely early for Sturmunits... In fact, it predates most units... I think at the time Rohr was traing specifically the Armee Abteilungs Gaede, Falkenhausen etc....

HI, it comes from the group of a field veternarian, there were a bunch of photos he picked up in the area, but were not his unit. I am guessing he did not know the correct term, I assume it was the Sturm Bataillon attached to that Armeekorks... maybe Sturmbataillon 14?

Hi, definately Bavarian, .. I am thinking 18th Bavarian Reserve Regiment with 2 members of the Leib Regt who had been transfered. Usually they kept ther uniform of the parent unit, ergo the litzen and ärmelpatten

Hi, unfortunately I cannot identify the flag, although I think the guy to the left of the flagbearer has the 3 patten in the sleeve which I think was unique to the leiber?

Hi, I will check when I get home

Hi Walter, I guess that is possible, there have been 100 years for the family to mix things up in the box. It was probably in the packet to protect it from scratches.

Hier is the Jäger Officer,,,,,,

IK, sorting out the stuff I find... there are 3 groups. The most is the Jäger group... then there are some 1870 things, then there is a small group to a Veterinarian.... He went on to serve in WW2

You usually see the 10th Jäger wearing the edelweiss on the tschako... here is a Bavarian.....

All the guys in the back row have "R18" on the helmet, as does the Flag bearer, The Officer looks like he transfered from the Leib Regt, as does the senior NCO to the Flagbearers left?

This photo is noted as " Stoßtrupp at Cirey (Tanconville) Sept 1916" from the equipment it looks to be a "real" Sturm unit, not just one in name...

Here is his cousins MVO

He was in the field with 2. Jäger from December 1914 until Dec 1915, then at the ersatz Batl until August 1916 (so he missed Verdun) then in Romania with the Battalion until he took a bullet to the lung on the 22 September 1916 and was sent to hospital in München. The Battalion history said his Bürsche saved him. The EK1 was forwarded to him to be awarded at the hospital. When he got out he was not fit for the front and took command of a Flieger Bau Komp. I found it... the MVK was awarded to the cousin as a Feld hilfs veterinär, awarded 14.2.1918

Maybe they had run out of red boxes by the time this was made :-)