Chris Boonzaier

10 hours ago, ccj said:

Chris, are you still collecting Imperial German uniforms and equipment?

I have not found anything in a couple of years... But having said that, I have not been casting a wide net, i.e. I am avoiding wanting to buy things because they are "Nice"... but only if they fit the limits of "alpenkorps"... so not a lot going...

A Bavarian Artillery officer on the staff during the war....

Very nice!!

18 minutes ago, dond said:

The hunt and the quest for knowledge. That is what keeps us going.

That... and beer and the occasional womens beach volleyball on the telly...

7 hours ago, dond said:

How was your break? Nice collection.

Spent a lot of time looking into and reading up on my regiments history, as well as chasing down badges ot the regiment... a totally different world of collecting... but many pieces just as elusive as with German collecting

After a rather long break for Bavarian collection, an update of the Leibregiment association badges...

On 31/08/2022 at 02:48, ccj said:

Very nice Chris, I think you’re right. All very nice indeed.

 

can you show more of the gray litewka collar, cuffs, reverse? It looks very nice

Hi,

Its pretty vanilla... the officer spent some early war months in the Vogesen, was sick a lot, then served in the ersatz battalion of the 11th Infantry Regiment... and was discharged halfway through the war...

A nice little set... Ernst Gattermeyer was born in April 1899, he was in the army from May 1917, getting to the front in May 1918 with the 20th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment... Releayed in February 1919 he joined the Freikorps Würzburg on the 22 April 1919, on the 12th of June 1919 he transfered to a Bayerische Schutzen Regiment... the armband has a faint stamp like the one on the document

I have been a way for a while, I just lost my collecting mojo and my WW1 Bavarian "phase" was layed on ice... but in the background I started collecting badges to my old Regiment...

Mainly metal ones, but here are the patches I have found,,,,,

1st and 2nd Company

3rd and 4th Company

The 5th company only existed for a few years, but during a sejour in the ivory coast the platoons of the 5th also had badges made

The SAED or section d’aide à l’engagement débarqué have existed for about 10-12 years now and are a section sized commando element in the regiment

One of the toughest patches to find.... the platoon leader keeps them under lock and key, only for members of the sniper section and an occasional VIP visitor, so I was very very lucky to get one of these 

Hi, is the crown on the italy medal a variation?

The 1952 dress uniform

Hi,

can anyone confirm how many colors were lost by the Austrians at Magenta in 1859?

A period Newspaper article says two.

A definate one is that of the Austrian 9th inf captured by the 2. Zouave Regiment

Another source mentions the 2 Feldjäger Battalion losing their colors

A 3rd source mentions an Infantry color taken by the French but then right away retaken by an 18 year old Austrian Jäger.

Any help would be greatly appretiated

Thanks

Chris

12 hours ago, ccj said:

Very nice Chris, I think you’re right. All very nice indeed.

 

can you show more of the gray litewka collar, cuffs, reverse? It looks very nice

Hi, will get some pics done. It is very close to the field grey of the combat uniforms

I think I have them nailed... Blue, Blue without brest pocket and Fieldgrey

I think maybe a regional medal for agriculture? Nothing national.

Fantastic find indeed.... it seems that numbering bayonets during the war was done purely at unit initiative... and mostly smaller wartime raised units

I do not have a huge selection but on the cards I have

2.3.16

B.S. Sturmabt

11.6.16, 7.6.16, 16.7.16, 

B.S. SturmBatl

29.10.17

S.B. Sturmbatl. 5 (Rohr)

8 hours ago, Klaus P. Schad said:

Hi Julien,

thanks for your reply. It is quite possible that the stamp "Sturmabt." was still used after Rohr moved to Verdun.

However, look at the date  "11.6.16." which stands for June 11th, 1916. By that time the Sturmabt. belonged to the 12. Ldw.Div. already.

I have a Sturm Batl card from July 1916 with the Sturm Abteilung stamp. Sent from Verdun, just north of Stenay... maybe they lost the Sturm Bataillon Stamp and used an old Sturm Abt one? Unless the guy who sent it had an old stenay card and sent it from Rottweil? 

This is also not to be sniffed at...

Hi,

if I have the right guy (I think I do) it was the Morane-Saulnier MS-500 (Fieseler Fi-156) "Storch"... as an artillery spotter

24 minutes ago, Michael Johnson said:

Chris,

Lovely group.  Is the medal above the Indochine medal Air Force or Para?  Or is relayed to the LdH?

Hi, the Médaille de l’Aéronautique, limited to 275 a year, they have been awarded since 1945, basically an aviation merit medal,

The medal botton right has an interesting history....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sip_Song_Chau_Tai

Unfortunately not Legion.... but impossible to pass up!

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Josef “Jupp” Klütsch was born on the 23rd of November 1929 in Bergheim, Germany. He joined the Foreign Legion at the age of 17 and a half in July 1947, claiming to be 19 and have been born in June 1927.
Exact dates are not known but he seems to have been one of the first legionnaires to have been posted to the newly formed 5e Regiment Etranger d’infanterie in November 1949. He received his Medaille Coloniale with the bar “extreme-Orient” in February 1950.
In January 1951 he received the Croix de Guerre TOE with a Bronze star for being an excellent combatant and his actions as point man in a patrol near the village of Ban Dac on the 3 October 1950.
He was released from the Legion on the 11th of July 1952.
In 1995 he received the titre de reconnaissance de la nation and in 2009 he was decorated with the Medaille Militaire.

During his time of Service “Jupp” Klütsch wore the Croix de Guerre TOE and the Medaille Colonial.
Over a year after he left the Indochina Campaign commemorative medal was introduced, he did not receive this at the time and bought one many years later. On the first medal bar he also wore the Croix de combatant, to which he was entitled. The bar also has the Medaille “engage volontaire” which has no official standing and was not allowed to be worn on the uniform. It is not uncommon to see it on medal bars of German veterans. He also has the unofficial medal of the reconnaissance de la nation with was available commercially. Once again an award which was not allowed to be worn while in uniform. The official Medaille de reconnaissance de la nation was introduced in 2002, he has a seperate ine which was not mounted on his bar.
The last bar has his Medaille Militaire, TOE, Croix de Combattant, Medaille Colonial, Medaille Indochine … and once again the Medaille “Engage Volontaire”! .. unfortunately he did not mount the Reconnaissance de la nation on his bar.
“Jupp” Klütsch was a long time member of the AALE in Cologne and passed away in 2015.

dude actually has great potential... I saw him on lost!