Chris Boonzaier

Can anyone give a quick lesson on the criteria for the schnurr and the Kaiserpreiss? Thanks Chris

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Not rare, but difficult to find men wearing these...

Hi Vet, Think of the example of Driant... born in 1855, and into the chamber of deputies in 1910... In 1914 he went back into uniform and served as a Chasseur officer.... he drove Joffre mad because he voiced his opinions directly to his friends in the chamber and to Gallieni.... Like Driant he must have taken a commission for the duration of the war, but that did not exclude him from his position in the chamber... I am not sure where to find it anymore but there was a good French article about the problems Joffre had/and his dislike of... members of the chamber in uniform. Best Chris

and in 1921 this.... on a white ribbon for serving the military in a civilian capacity...

From 1903 he started working as a civilian in the Bekleidungsamt XIII K.W. Armeekorps where he worked until Feb 1921... In 1917 he got this...

This man served in 1898

Hi, I just got these with some goodies... not sure of what theay are... it was in with WW1 stuff but looks more WW2? Is the construction OK for these??

A very interesting story may hide ehind that piece.... much has been written about war service officers who were also members of the Chambre des Députés. They infuriated the high command as they could carry their complaints straiht to the highest political levels. best Chris

Nice! About 10 years ago i had a pile of original newsletters that were printed onboard one of the HKs above... cannot remember which one unfortunately...

Nice! Lets see some pics of the book!

lieutenant-colonel, Louis de Savoye de Puineuf

Can it be "de Puineuf"?

A bunch more interesting Machine Gun Photos and a nice revamp of a page dedicated to the brave man..... http://www.kaiserscross.com/152301.html

Well spotted... I was going to increase my guess to Algerian prototype, but you nailed it.

Dressler also wounded in mid 1916 and no further mention. ancestory is not that well put together, sometimes the search function does not find the guy on the roll and you have to go through the roll indexes... not that easy...

Jakob has just one meiningen award, but no baden. Was wounded mid 16, then disapearsfr om the roll.

funnily he had no bavarian awards...!

dressler had ek2, wound, Sachs Mein ehrenmedailee kriegsv. 14-16 and AEv 27.2.16 from charlotte von sachs meiningen... no Baden

Hi, my error, they were awarded for korea, although they are not awarded for all actions overseas.

Indeed.... I wonder who put THAT up.... ;-) I have been waiting, and waiting, and waiting to see if anyone would notice :-)) And please note... it says FAMOUS..... :-)

At a guess I would say some kind of para wing for Morocco? dont know the variation though...

I did not think those were awarded for Korea? Do you have a document for the award? Best Chris

Some fantastic stuff Steve and congrats on the book!! Feel free to open a thread on it in the US section, we would love to see it!

Seems to be a small badge on the hat... I am betting something from the ottoman empire....