Chris Boonzaier

I agree, both great pieces, and wondeful phots !! (as always)

Nice lid, makes me want to break out the pipe, pink Gin... and go shoot a tiger ... ;-)

It has a small cross strap like the WW2 ones.

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Hi, This is the one I was on about...

Founf this useful article... http://fortiter.napoleonicmedals.org/miscellany/poincons.htm

A translation of the citation

The official citation for his Legion d'H. published in 1918...

The award document for the belgian C.d.G.... Interesting how they are awarded and how it says "Does not entitle to the french C.d.G.

A real gentleman on the "Great War Forum", who does not know me from Adam, popped these in the post for me as he did not need them. I am sure you guys will appretiate a look. The award document issued in May 1915 for his Legion D'Honneur

Hi, it had just taken part in the breakthrough between Gouzeaucourt and vermand in March 1918 and then fought on the ancre, Somme and Avre. Document was signed during a period where they were pulled from the line. A month later they were fighting between the marne and vesle. best Chris P.S. as with 98.345% of wound badge docs, there is no way to know if the wound was in 1918 or 1916 or 1914.

Not only Musketier.... From a randon array of Regular and Reserve infantry regt EK docs... All names for Privates. Musketier is not any or less comman than infanterist or Landsturmmann. Landsturmmann, Reservist, Grenadier, F?silier, Wehrmann, Ersatz-reservist, Infantrist, Musketier, Landsturmmann-Rekrut, Sch?tze, Landwehrmann, Soldat (Kriegsfreiwilliger, Soldat, Kriegsfreiwilliger, best chris

Photo is on the western front in 1918. No way of knowing if the guy with the cross above him really is the man... Writing on the back is unfortunately unreadable. (Unless maybe your name is Rick?)

A photo with it...

I picked up another Karpathenkorps doc this week....

Hi, I am embarresed to say, my knowledge of old Legion stuff is basically zero, but this guy was a Sgt, stayed longer than 5 years- less than 10, was in the Cavalry regiment (armoured) and seems to have gotten the "standard" rack of medals. A nice group!

It is however the first J?gr award doc I have seen where the man has been something other than J?ger ot Reservist. Best chris

I just found award document to landsturmmann kr?ger of the 17. R.J?g.Batln. I was under the impression that there were no "Ersatz" "Landwehr" od "Landsturm" J?gers? Just regular J?ger or reserve-J?ger.... Can anyone give any help in this direction? Thanks Chris

Before the attack, 17 June 1916. maybe by artillery, maybe doing pionier preperations.

Hi, I will have to dig around.... an example that comes to mind (have to look for it) was a NCO at the Nachrichten Kommandeur of the 18. Armee Ober- Kommando. Regular black ribonned EK... but HK without swords. Probably never heard a shot fired. From my index file it would be the following man.. Unteroffizier Carl Lahmann (beim Nachrichten-Offizier der O.H.L.) The award was made on the 1 September 1918 The document was signed on the 7 September 1918 by Rittmeister Devaux, Nachrichtenoffizier der O.H.L. The document is a special print for the A.O.K. 18

I was a warlord fan, but we used to get all three.Beano, Dandy and Warlord ;-)...... .............. Viz came later......

Nice find.... did you read the Dandy?

My guess is.... Depending on the recieving telegraph office, somewhere in Rural Germany a block of paper and a Pencil may have been "high tech" while in larger towns maybe a typewriter? I know when we learned Morse we wrote by hand, but apparently typing while recieving goes quite a bit faster.... The dates? Seriously wounded and written off for dead by his unit... then dying a few days later in a field hospital, Unit sending off a telegram saying died on the 15th, once they stopped retreating/advancing/being bombed the news arrives that he had been taken to a neighbouring divisions field hospital and held on for 5 days before dying... I am sure in the confusion of battle much of the paperwork has anamolies. Best Chris

Hitzelberger was proposed for the iron Cross (the Alpenkorps was fighting at verdun at the time of his death), but was killed before the approval went through. instead of sending his family an Iron Cross and a posthumous award document, they were sent this doc say "Close, but no cigar". This document is by the same soldier/Artist who drew the Alpenkorps EK document picture. For those who do not read German, it says he was proposed for the EK but did not recieve it because he was killed in action in the meantime. So, this is no watertight proof of my theory, but a lot of circumstantial evidence. Pretty damned nice of the Alpenkorps to issue a document like this, I have never seen one in a similar format, either as a generic doc, or unit specific doc.

OK, so far I have not been able to find a statute of any kind. Circumstantial evidence is: I have reached the 450 mark in Imperial EK docs/small groups. There are a number of groups where the guy was awarded the EK after being invalided out of the army, but so far not a single group where an award was made after the mans death.... Enter this spectacular document......