Chris Boonzaier

Its just a tiny pinprick in the fighting on the Eastern Front, but it is a start... http://www.kaiserscross.com/41815/162901.html

I would imagine it was a "Much beer on a sunday night, early shift on Monday..." made cross. As someone who likes to mess around with handywork... quite often I put something on wrong. Especially for 57 pieces, there was no LDO or quality control. I dont see how a catch the other way would make things easier for lefties?

Better still...

Hi Kev. According to the article, it is NOT chinese Bronze from Russian canons, in fact the canons used nowdays seem to have nothing to do with Russia at all. Pure 100% Chinese. But you are right in a way.... nowdays the Chinese strip the rest of the world of raw materials and make everything back in china... here we have a case of the chinese producing the raw materials and Great Britain making the final product... If only that could be mirrored in all manufacturing industries ;-)

FAPLA sounds right. It is for the 2nd anniversary of FAPLA. See here... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAPLA

There are a few I would like better, 2nd Bavarian J?ger for example... And there are many that look waaaay cooler... But for someone interested in History.... and a bit interested in verdun..... These are pretty much as good as it gets... :-))))

Welcome, nice sword... about the right price for the entry into the club. You can send it to surface mail if you want ;-)

About 75% as big as on the screen. Best Chris

Here is one awarded in 1901 that I was able to handle some years ago...

Wait a mo... I will dig out all of mine to compare it to ... ;-)

All pretty nice as we can pinpoint him in DSWA and on the western front :-)

and last, but not (well maybe) least...

His HK

His Hamburg cross and a telex infoing him he got it...

2 Ausweises leaving him as F?hrer of the Ammo column he was working in while the LT was on leave...

An early EK in 1914

His award doc...

A letter from the colonial troops confirming to someone in Germany that he is in good health.

a Map drawn by him, including a bit on the Karasberge expedition which is very researchable indeed.

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A postcard sent by him,. mailed at Keetmanshoop

Picked this up today... There is a bunch of other not so interesting paper, but this is the good stuff. In 1903-04 in the 2nd Garde Infanterie Regiment then from 1904 - 06 in South West Afrika for the Herero and Hottentot rebellions. A letter from his Garde Kompagnie commander basically telling him to shoot straight and keep his pecker up...

What a absolute hypocritical ######... http://cgi.ebay.de/ALTE-SIEBENER-ORDENSSPA...1QQcmdZViewItem "Unfortunately there are only two of the medals left on this wonderful bar, but a great piece all the same...." what a guy...

Who was the destroyer? A member here? best Chris

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