Chris Boonzaier

I have no idea what it is,.... but it looks suspiciously like something I would NOT hit with a hammer!

My guess is that it is freikorps, reichs Kokarde removed as th ekaiser had done a runner...probably a Gunner in a freikorps ?

You beat me to it... I was going to say a German pin. Raises a question though... why did the Turks not make Minis? I guess wearing miniatures of medals is traditional to some countries, but not all. best Chris

it usually has to do with alcohol..... ;-)

Thanks Glenn :-) The long service doc is missing, so I assume the bar does in fact belong to the group. Anyone putting it together would not have known about the long service ribbon. All the best Chris

And the EK1, with ribbon bar... I assume an unusual combination?

hamburg

What looks to be a field made award approval for the Schaumberg Lippe Kreuz für treue dienste 1914

His EK2

Here is a group to Oberintendantursekretär Otto Schultze of the 3rd cav, then 3rd Infantry Division...

Hi, I have his record fron ancestry.com, he was hit in both (!) feet... I guess I will have to let my imagination run free there...

Here is an interesting one to a member of the staff of the 21st division (from frankfurt).. I assume early war?

A couple more parts cropped from bigger pics... I like the KS98 bayonet...

This was a small but nice find... The dent on the dogtag is strangely enough the exact size as a shrapnel ball! Not sure if thats what it was though... Dillmann was wounded by schrapnel in 1915...

That is a fantastic piece indeed! If things like this were on the market it would be at the top of my list. You lucky dog, you!

Pretty difficult to build a bridge in that!!

Thanks, I have about 20 more coming to add to the page, including with white snow clothing. Wish I knew the exact unit. best Chris

Tony.... you TEASE! Nope, I dont have that one......

Hi, as much as I hate to say it, I think your chances of finding anything are pretty close to Zero, unless some more info happens to pop up. Not only is the info minimal, but there is also a chance that he changed his first name at some stage as Charles is very un-German. best Chris

Here is a nice (small.. 34 by 23cm) painting done in the Argonne in march 1916 by Gefreiter Meininger... it shows an Oberleutnant of the 9th Comapany of the 173rd Infantry Regiment.

You can have ammo (locked up but not laying around) for weapons you legally own. As i dont have a G98 its a nono. I am fine with that, our son is 5 years old and curious... I remember putting rounds in a vice and hitting the back when I was 7-8... So I have no problem with the thought of not have ammo laying around... I sold my pistol because the new laws want an approved safe, with weapons and ammo locked in it and it was not worth the trouble for me to do all that... once again, I remember sneaking out the family Walther in my early teens and doing some pretty irresponsible stuff with it... So I have no reason to think my kid would be different... its a problem I dont need. Best Chris

Thanks, I have the first lot up here... http://www.kaiserscross.com/76001/273301.html

Bullets all from November 1917

Just this week I received this 1917 stamped bandoleer... what I did not know when I bought it was that it was still full... so when it arrived my eves popped out.... Dilemma... 1)not legal to have ammunition like this laying around. 2)Some of the clips were rusting, which in the long run would damage the cotton In the end I took out the rounds, emptied them with an Armour hammer, put the heads back in, made special light weight "ersatz" clips with bullets out of cardboard, sewed them back in (100% like it originally was) removed the rust from the clips (bullets were still mint)... So now 1) All legal 2) Deterioration (rust) stopped 3) Better for display 4) Can put the bandoleer on a dummy without the weight taking its toll

As she was at the Munich State Opera in the period old one ball was, and he was a Wagner fanatic, it is possible maybe even probable that he saw her sing. Not that it makes the docs better, just an interesting thought.