Chris Boonzaier

I think I am going to make some coffee.......

The 1917 stamp

The unstamped one has no little pouring spout...

Picked up 2 aluminum ones for a song today... One is from the "Wuertt.Met.Fabr.1914" the other one without a stamp but with "P.P. 6/65" scratched into it, I dont know if it was 65th arty or inf. The other is a mint 1917 one.

I know there are similar chocolate/candy/sweet tins for WW1, WW2 and the Boer war.... Anyone have any others?

I was leaning that way as well. I guess more that way than a regular troop officer. best chris

What does a man like this do in an Artillery unit? Aladar Skita (1876 Wien - 1953 Baden-Baden) hatte 1900 in Heidelberg promoviert und war 1903 bis 1905 Chemiker bei den Farbenwerken in H?chst/Main. Am 1. Oktober 1905 Assistent am Chemische-Techischen Institut der TH Karlsruhe, habilitierte er sich am 20. Juli 1906 und wurde am 22. Dezember 1911 a. o. Titularprofessor. In gleicher Stellung war er vom 1. April 1914 an der Universit?t Freiburg t?tig. Seit 5. Februar 1921 in Kiel, ab 1. Oktober 1923 als nichtbeamteter a. o. Professor und Leiter der Organischen Abteilung des Chemischen Instituts mit Lehrauftrag f?r Organische Chemie. Am 1. Oktober 1924 wechselte A. Skita als o. Professor und Direktor des Instituts f?r Organische Chemie an die TH Hannover

David pointed me to an online photo of him....

Just what is it with that word ?? In berlin they dont get it either !! Here is the doc for the hungarian medal inviting all any everyone who ever knew anyone who may have seen a war movie on TV to apply.

Red face for the spell checker !

can anyone post what this medal looks like?

Here are his post war docs...

Nice catch !

Okay... here is the weapon.... horrible thing ! anyone have an idea where the unit served? http://www.moesslang.net/WW1%20Fortification%20History.htm Thanks Chris

In all wars except WW1 the Iron Cross document was an official award document, all awards coming from the Kaiser before that time and the docs came from him as well, or in WW2 where they came from Adi, awarded by commanding generals on his behalf and the documents being the standard official award document. In WW1 it was a more or less spur of the moment thing to allow the generals to make the awards and there was no official document. Indeed, there were a whole lot of preliminary documents and unlike WW2 where the doc for the EK came from Divisional level, in WW1 the approval was from a high level but it depended on the Corps or Division as to who issued the document. In some Corps the douments came from the Corps itself, in others it was left up the Regt or sometimes even the Company to issue the docs. These docs were NOT the award, simply a confirmation of the award. In WW2 there were initially such low level preliminary documents for the EK, but these were soon officially forbidden. My theory is...... hitler probably had crappy hand written docs, was allergic to them, and therefore saw to it that quality (but boring) EK docs were availible for WW2 :-) anyone seen Hitlers docs?

Okay, this guy was in one of the famed Austrian Heavy mortar units... Can anyone make head or tail of these?

SOUTH AFRICANS !

Very nice indeed.... Do you have any info on the fighting the division was doing at the time? best Chris

Ironic that the most interesting period was 1901-1902, but because of the nature of the war, there is not really anything where you can actually write much about or add it to a list like the one above. best Chris

I would assume this was issued at the time when the HJ was going about swallowing up all other youth organisations. maybe the process was not yet finished so it is more of a transitional era doc. Old guard moving over, new guard taking over.

A belated welcome.... Nice site !

The wifes Grandfather was his Doctor for a couple of years during the war.

Nice...nice.... how much !!!!????

You just gotta love Randall knives... the one on the bottom I had for 5 years in the army... the one on the top is one I really did not need, but bought anyway... middle one is a German export Bowie...

Another one, at least this one is dated after the action there had started ;-)