At last... a way to display my stuff...

[Chris Boonzaier]

A fantastic article up today.....

4th Sturm Kompagnie of the Sturmbataillon Nr. 5 (Rohr).... and their handgrenades, a visit from the kaiser... and an Iron Cross...

http://www.kaiserscr...029/276501.html

[Chris Boonzaier]

Something fantastic happened last month. I put up an Article about a member of the 4th Zouaves who won a Croix de Guerre for a heroic defense in the Vaux-Chapitre forest/Souville in August 1916 as well as some German documents for the action.

Then... I posted Photos of 2 random graves of men killed in the action. 2 Graves of 2 amongst hundreds of thousand of men killed during the battle of Verdun.

One of the men died at the age of 22, leaving no wife and no children behind.

Jean Lemieux wrote in "La Lune Rouge"...

"Life is like a huge furnace. When we leave there is just a pile of ashes, photos, memories, a farce that two generations later means nothing. A white stone on a hill next to the church."

I don't know what the chances are of a nephew of a man killed almost 100 years finding a randomly chosen photo on a website are... but I am pretty sure that they are very, very minimal.

Please take a look at this....

http://www.kaiserscross.com/40056/134143.html

[Chris Boonzaier]

Had a bit of a break... but a new thing up...

A bit obscure... the elite S.B. Rohr in the Champagne, a little known action for them...

http://www.kaiserscross.com/40029/278501.html

[Chris Boonzaier]

Well, its been a bit of time since the last update, life gets in the way of the Website ;-)

A few things up this time.... Some photos of a recent visit to the place where one of my US Silver Stars was won, just to the north of Verdun.

Harry continues campaigning, this time up on the Suez Canal in 1914-15

And a new page added to the Machine Gun Photo Album...

http://www.kaiserscross.com/152301.html

[Chris Boonzaier]

I proudly present... a bloody long section I have been meaning to get up for ages and ages...

German Signal/Communications troops...

http://www.kaiserscross.com/152301.html

Its not as boring as it sounds!! Know what an Ahrendt station is? Have you read Schneiders account of being lost while carrying a message to the Neighbouring unit?

Thought not.... but now is your chance!!!

[Chris Boonzaier]

So.... some really, really cool stuff today...

An article about one of the smallest units of the war, The Magadi Defence force... one of those exotic, quaint and unusual units that can only be found in a British colony...

And a fantastic Silver Star/Purple Heart group to a man of the 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd division... for the attack on the village of Vaux on the 1st of July 1918...

http://www.kaiserscr...com/152301.html

[Chris Boonzaier]

A whole lotta new stuff at....


http://www.kaiserscross.com/152301.html

[Chris Boonzaier]

Some new stuff up and more to come this month...

http://www.kaiserscross.com/152301.html

[Chris Boonzaier]

Hi,

whats it like to be buried alive on the battlefield? See here...

If I said "Senussi" would you know what I mean? See here...

http://www.kaiserscr...com/152301.html

A nice little update....

[Chris Boonzaier]

Hi,

whats it like to be buried alive on the battlefield? See here...

If I said "Senussi" would you know what I mean? See here...

http://www.kaiserscr...com/152301.html

A nice little update....

[Chris Boonzaier]

Some really cool German Uniform bits attributed to August Weber

http://www.kaiserscross.com/152301.html

[Chris Boonzaier]

An early X-Mas Special for you lazy bjggers who don't bother to sign the guest book.

First off, some variations on the Granatenwerfer 16, with photos comparing the Prussian made and rare Bavarian made Werfer

Harry has outdone himself, giving us one of the obscure and exotic Colonial/Indigenous units in "Cole's Scouts" and giving covering a lightning campaign in "Togoland 1914", over before the Germans even knew it was happening.

Harry's Togoland article ties in nicely with our Fake EK deoc section, showing why the pictured Togoland Document must be a fake. A few more Fake EK docs are shown as well

Some small changes to the article about the 10th RD on the Aisne with some historically fantastic EK docs

check out the "whats new" section...

[MauserKar98k]

Great website.

[Chris Boonzaier]

Quite a few new sections since the last update... take a look... you will not regret it!

http://www.kaiserscross.com/152301.html

[Chris Boonzaier]

A pretty large update today....

http://www.kaiserscross.com/152301.html

Am sure there is something for everyone...