Chris Boonzaier

Hi, He/She/it sent me a seperate mail saying I could pay for registered, by then i had paid, It set off a slight alarm bell, but I figured... what can go wrong.... 2 weeks later, I asked "have you mailed..." They said "Yes, but you did not pay registered...." Then they said the postoffice was researching.... (A non registered letter??? What a load of bollox!) Then I saw, they had 11 transactions as a seller, already one other thing lost, and one complaint about broken items/bad descriptions.... So money down the toilet.....

My main intention is to get the name out there incase someone gets it and googles the name.... Stupidly I never took registered, but the postoffice seldom looses stuff inside of Germany.... I should have seen that in 11 ebay sales there were already 2 unhappy customers.... so I tend to think the problem is with the sender.... this is the item, apparently "Lost in the mail" http://www.ebay.de/itm/282174583018?_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT Oblt Wilhelm Gollwitzer Bayer reserve infanterie regiment 13 Born 18 Januar 1887 in

Depends what they have in stock, but many are for sale on ebay if you want individual ones

Hi, sorry, I should have specified, ground troops. The airmen had other criteria and were able to prove themselves in single combat. Best Chris

Ach! How could I forget those two!!!

Hi, am I correct in thinking the only Leutnant to get the PLM are Rommel and Robert Hieronymus? Thanks Chris

If the awards were added, it is then indeed possible that the man was ground crew for the unit and would give credit to Gunnar's argument. I must say, knowing it did not cost an arm and a leg makes me feel happier, and I do enjoy it when a doc provokes discussion like this, whether it be good or bad.

Hi Gunnar, All opinions are welcome, we are here for discussion. All the best Chris All opinions are welcome and no opinion has to be definative, best Chris It is hard to say just looking at the pics, but for my 2c, something I would look at closely.... These Auszugs are not like a Militärpass. i.e. they were not filled out over time, by different hands, but by a clerk in one go. What gives me a little bit of concern is that the awards, other than EK2, may all have been added at a later date. Reason being.... the spacing... and the way the "1" is entered in the date of the EK1 award, the only place on the whole document where it was entered as such. The ink seems to be a little different as well. Do you know the origin of the document?

Hi, I found him on ancestry by entereing his first name and birth date. As I said, the people at ancestry transcribed Irnis on 4 different records with the name as shown in the title ;-)

Hi, all of the 4 used by ancestry were wrong, all transcription errors.... the real name is Irnis, he is listed in the Bavarian Bravery medal book as being in the 30 b.I.R. but he was in the Leib Regt until being wounded on the 28th of June 1916 at Ve4dun. Irnis was the man who along with 2 comrades dug the Bavarian Prince and his staff out of the celler whose entrence had collapsed under bombardement at Fleury, the next day he spent hours under enemy artillery fire salvaging the body of the Battalion 2 ic.

Hi, any guesses? I think it is 2nd Aufklärungs Comp in Glau ?

? this should be interesting... how "wrong"?

The name was lightly engarved into the back, but the scratches made when repair was done almost erased the mans name and unit... This is the interesting part..... it was awarded for the fighting on the 1st day of the Nivelle offensive..... one of the bloodiest days of the war...

Yesssssss!!! Nice find! Is it not terrible that they are always so much better without an Ehrenkreuz! :-)

Jup, ancestry does some terrible things with names. Paul Irnis' last name has 4 Variations.... but none are correct..... 5th Company Infanterie Leib Regiment with a silver Bravery medal for Verdun.... I was veeeery happy to find this! :-)

I think EK2, EK1, Wound in Silver and Silesian Eagle II and I class. For some reason EK2 only in August 18 and EK1 in October 18 best Chris

...from a Militärpass bursting at the seems.... the guy saw a lot of service, but these are the more interesting stamps..... Wartime for the Feldgemdarmerie Abteilung Kurland, then the Gendarmerie Brigade of the Baltische Landwehr.....

Wow.... http://www.ebay.de/itm/Eisernes-Kreuz-1-Klasse-1914/302085184248?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D39275%26meid%3Dd7958d4b692543b4a15392afbd19263f%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D272384882336

Hi, so the photo dates from 1934, a bit more well fed than he would have been in 1917. The 98 Carbine is a bit out of place...

Hi, at the clearing in the forest at Compiegne... http://www.ww1westernfront.gov.au/bellenglise/forest-clearing-of-the-armistice.php

A slippery slope indeed!!! I have limited myself to just some regiments with these celebration day badges.... the collecting field is large!

This was an interesting find, a printed sheet of name tags, all ready to cut up and sew into the uniforms.....

A box with 2 tubes....

It took about 25 years to find an EK group to a Military priest... :-)

The South African Recce Commandos had an "Operator" Brevet. This was worn by qualified Recces, along with their para Wings and whatever else they had. It was an extra distinction for the "real deal"... men who had done the training and were involved in boots on the ground operations.... I have always imagined it was something like that....