Bob Lyons

Good Morning John

All singular pieces sadly, the Ehrenpokal is to a pilot from KG 26, Uffz Ernst Quaas, awarded 23/1/43,

some photos of it as well as a couple of photos of him....

-Bob

Pilots badge is a C.E. Juncker example......

Clasp is also a Juncker.....

I can throw in a cased Berg & Nolte PB too....  

The officer M43 cap is the same one that is photographed in Jack Angolia's Luftwaffe series (Volume 1) published

by Roger Bender..

Thanks Brad, it is an Erel cap...... 

Just 'playing about with the camera' a few weeks back, thought I would post up some of the photos for some "show & tell"  

-Bob

A lovely cap too Brad, hard to find with this piping.

Here is a bit of info on the soldier that once owned my example....

-Bob

Thanks Brad.

Regards

Bob

Here are a couple of Luftwaffe Medical piped OR/NCO visor caps, blue top and white top versions to add to this thread....

Very impressive array of wonderful items....

How about one from the Luftwaffe....  

Very nice, although officers weren't authorised to wear the Marksman's lanyard.....

Lovely pick ups Brad. I especially like the NCO tab, here is the cap to go with it.....

And Fl. U.V. means Flieger Unterkunft Verwaltung, or Flight Barracks Administration.

Bob

I am with you Jock, I think it is cut from a vehicle pennant, and the eagles from these pennants always have their heads facing to the front of the pennant,

so one side will have the eagle looking the other way from the one on the opposite side of the pennant.

Hope that makes sense !

Cheers

Bob

Stellar grouping Bob. Please let us know what you dig up in your research.

Looks like both contacts that John passed on are not going to reply, so at the moment, I guess I am dead in the water for any further info

on him.

Best wishes

Bob

Great group Jock, and a gold wound badge doco, Wow !

Bob

Thanks Bernhard, I have actually just finished reading a book about von der Heydte's exploits in the Ardennes, a very interesting read, and thanks for the info, really appreciated.

Thanks too John, you are a wealth of knowldege, and also greatly appreciated.

Best wishes

Bob (I will let you know how I go).

Thanks guys, John I don't suppose you would have the contact details for the Veterans organization, or the Bundesarchiv Military Records department by chance ??

Thanks

Bob

The IV Battalion of Luftlande Sturm-Regiment 1 was formed in the winter of 1940/41. The battalions never saw action together, except at Crete.

The Kommandeur of IV./St.Rgt 1 was Hauptmann Walther Gericke, and the

OC 15 Kompanie was Oberleutnant Dobke, killed in action attacking Maleme airstrip on the 20th of May 1941.

Bob

The group came with several very nice photos of the soldier too....

Bob

Hi all,

I thought I would show a recent document group, to a Fallschirmjaeger from the Luftlande Sturm-Regiment 1, 15 Kompanie.

The soldier obviously survived Crete, and went on to serve in Russia and by the looks of one of his wound documents, he also

did time in Normandy w ith the 6th FJD.

If anyone has any further info on the man, I would love to hear it.

Many thanks,

Bob

Thanks Auseklis

Bob

Hi all,

Anyone got any clues as to what this letter is all about, my German to English isn't so good.....

Thanks

Bob

Very interesting, thanks Nick

Cheers

Bob

This has a bit more of a military flavour, this is the old Fort Glandville in Adelaide, sadly it was closed while we were there, but a very kind Park Ranger

let us in for a quick look around the Fort, built in Colonial times...

Bob

Not exactly military, but will zing them in here anyway, there is some great old Colonial buildings around the port area in Adelaide,

I couldn't resist a few photos.....

Bob

I managed a very quick visit to the Adelaide Maritime museum during our trip over to South Oz recently, hope you like the pix....

Bob

Hi all,

I just posted this along with several photos of the Adelaide (Australia) military vehicle museum in the museums section, but thought this was

interesting enough to post here as well.

I have never seen another example, it looks like it was used by an Aussie for his own tool box after he 'captured' the box. I don't know what is

inside the box, as I respected the museums wishes and didn't fiddle with it.

Cheers

Bob