Chris Boonzaier Posted December 31, 2012 Posted December 31, 2012 I dont know this guys history.... but the soft goat leather wallet and in this style say North Africa to me.....
Chris Boonzaier Posted December 31, 2012 Author Posted December 31, 2012 But what is waaaay more interesting is a rather scarce British badge that he chose to keep as a souvenier....
Chris Boonzaier Posted December 31, 2012 Author Posted December 31, 2012 Spending decades in the wallet....
Chris Boonzaier Posted December 31, 2012 Author Posted December 31, 2012 A wild guess but maybe a North Africa vet who was in Normandy? I dont know my British badges that well....
Mervyn Mitton Posted January 1, 2013 Posted January 1, 2013 Chris - AAc stands for the Army Air Corps - formed in 1942. They included small observer planes with Artillery officers, plus at one time they included Paras and SAS. They served until 1947 and were later reforned and now are active with helicopters. I agree with you that this wallet looks Nth. African - and he probably took the badge from a prisoner. This could have been in Nth. Africa - or, possibly Crete. There is one interesting point about this badge - I don't think it is the original casting. Our troops ran out of badges when equipment was lost and they were not high on the list of stores for the convoys. The troops took to making sand castings - using a
Chris Boonzaier Posted January 8, 2013 Author Posted January 8, 2013 So, The FP Number on the second doc is 6. Kompanie Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 1 in may 1941.... The plastic AAC British badge is a latter half of the war one. So, if we assume he was at Crete, in the Med, then it is still unclear where he was when wounded to land in Munich in hospital in 43... I think Russia if he was with the same unit? Where could he have got a British Glider badge as souvenier? I think Italy... or france? But if he was in the Med area, that more or less explains the wallet....
Chris Boonzaier Posted January 8, 2013 Author Posted January 8, 2013 I think i have nailed it... the only time his unit and British Glider troups came into contact... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fustian
Chris Boonzaier Posted January 13, 2013 Author Posted January 13, 2013 Does anyone know if there are rolls with the names of FJ unit members?
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