Chris Boonzaier

I win! Although I thought they were at Korps level.

I dont think it was in the 2 GID... the 2 GID was in the process of loosing of of its own Arty regiments....

I dont know for sure, but am guessing that when the division was sent to the eastern front in mid 17 it lost the 3rd arty, and that the 3rd Arty stayed in the Champagne area as a Corps troop... knocked around as such until later being added to the the GKSD

Nice!! I remember Liverpool medals had a really nice clasp for Bir H. I hesitated for weeks... then decided "Right! I will buy it...." But by then it was gone......

I would think he was awarded the sudeten medal and had it mounted... then served in the war and got the Ostfront medal... was wounded or released from service, then got the KVM in a non military capacity, took his unmounted Ostfront and KVM.. removed the sudeten from its single mount, and put them all onto a bar. very possible indeed...

A fantastic article up today..... 4th Sturm Kompagnie of the Sturmbataillon Nr. 5 (Rohr).... and their handgrenades, a visit from the kaiser... and an Iron Cross... http://www.kaiserscross.com/40029/276501.html

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I am not to sure WHY I bought this... I think the fact that he transfered to the 180 IR on the 30.6.1916... and the 1ste day of the Somme offensive was on the 1.7.1916 is what caught my eye... poor bastard.... Captain Brunnenmiller was awarded the EK2, Wilhelmskreuz with swords, Wound Badge and and at a later undefined date the EK1 (I assume WW2) What had the seller hopping was his posting from the 6.10.42-10.8.43....

Thank buddah that time is infinate...... ;-)

Hi, Have to check when i get home--- i think he was a "U" Mate.... From what I remember it was not an engine room or Torpedo Maat... so very possibly an on deck man. Best Chris

Indeed... if ever I know of anyone going down to Freiburg archives I wouls ask them to pull his files from the Werner Trial... that way I would know his position...

Hi, Maybe in WW2, but for WW1 Werner and his boat were the exception. So much so that he was unique in being the only U-Boot commander to be tried and sentenced for war crimes... Not only that, he knowingly let the allies suspect another U-Boot captain of this... For WW1 this was the only known case, even for WW2 it was not comman. A couple of German commanders and some US commanders in the pacific.. and I seem to remember 1 Brit commander accused of same...

Hi, the WW1 one under Werner... As commander of U-55, after sinking the armed 5,597 ton steamer "Torrington" on 8 April 1917, he submerged with 34 survivors on deck, taking only the ship's master POW back to Germany--to bear postwar witness against him. Werner then did the same thing with crew members of the torpedoed armed 3,066 ton steamer "Toro" on 12 April 1917, murdering 14 crewmembers in the same way, while carrying the Master and ship's gunner back to Germany as prisoners-- and witnesses. Werner also torpedoed the fully lit and legally identified (but luckily, apparently empty of any but the crew) hospital ship "Rewa" on 4 January 1918, sinking it with a loss of only 4 dead. In what had become an evil pattern of homicidal and deliberately criminal behavior, AGAIN torpedoed a fully lit hospital ship, the "Guilford Castle" on 10 March 1918-- which did not sink only because one torpedo was a dud and the other he fired missed.

It is not to say that one cannot be brave and slime at the same time. I have an EK1 to a U-Boot man, he was on the U-55... the boat most known for war crimes... In one instance they collected all the survivors onto the front of the u-boot, destroyed all the life rafts... then dived, leaving all the survivors to drown. May have been a brave man... but slime all the same....

I read Gaunz...

Hi, sometimes the solder splits... sometimes the devil makes work for idle hands and someone splits one out of the frame. It should be magnetic, but not being magnetic is also a slight possibility. best Chris

Here are the rest..... :-) http://www.kaiserscross.com/76001/275401.html

This is Miserable..... Pic is here... http://www.kaiserscross.com/76001/275401.html

I think it is a core, popped out of its frame. Best Chris

All valid points.... this is technically not right... so needs close examination.

HI, I would guess USD15-20 ? Best Chris

If its a beaver, its been shaved.... :whistle:

I have about 6-700 more EK docs to do... he is going to have to wait in line ;-)

Sorry, missed that one... its South African Armoured Corps.... for a tanker, goes on a black beret with a balkie under it... (I think Orange, White and Black),,,