Chris Boonzaier Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 pics and postcards needed (Scans of them)ThanksChris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 Lots and lots and LOTS of convalescent hospital group shots. Frontline, only these twofrom a Bavarian named Hans, summer 1915. The leather-clad Kraftfahrtruppen suggest this was a motorized ambulance company. Note the medic 2nd on left has a marksmanship lanyard: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 Unrelated and just coincidence of similar subject matter. "In memory of service in France." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christerd Posted November 3, 2007 Share Posted November 3, 2007 Hi, not a front line photo but a medic with EK IIHope it fits into the thread anyway.Christer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christerd Posted November 3, 2007 Share Posted November 3, 2007 And here is three more medics in a somewhat more "frontline" PhotoBavarians? Christer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christerd Posted November 3, 2007 Share Posted November 3, 2007 Maybe this is a little offtopic? An wounded english soldier carried by four German POWs But still an interesting card.Christer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Boonzaier Posted November 3, 2007 Author Share Posted November 3, 2007 Theanks guys!Those are a great start.What is the exact uniform in post 4 ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulsterman Posted November 3, 2007 Share Posted November 3, 2007 Here's my contribution- I'll have more anon: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulsterman Posted November 3, 2007 Share Posted November 3, 2007 (edited) and a most interesting one (Chaplain Ferd. Wagner, DivisionPfarrer 14th Res. Div.): Edited November 4, 2007 by Ulsterman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chip Posted November 3, 2007 Share Posted November 3, 2007 Ulsterman's last photo is a Catholic priest, judging from his neck cross. He is wearing a smaller than regulation cross on his cap and what appears to be a regular non-combattant armband instead of the normal clergy armband with its purple central band.Chip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted November 3, 2007 Share Posted November 3, 2007 Purple and green diagonal stripes? Christer's photo in 4 and Ulsterman's in 8 are the Prussian Red Cross. That's not an Iron Cross ribbon in Christer's photo-- like Ulsterman's (wearing the medal itself, too) it's the Prussian Red Cross Medal 3rd Class. The red and black of that ribbon blend into what LOOKS like an EK ribbon in these old photos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chip Posted November 3, 2007 Share Posted November 3, 2007 It looks like the man in post #8 is wearing this armband with its large stamp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian R Posted November 4, 2007 Share Posted November 4, 2007 (edited) A proud Bavarian... he also has medical insignia sewn onto his right sleeve Edited November 4, 2007 by Brian R Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulsterman Posted November 4, 2007 Share Posted November 4, 2007 sent from feldpost #55 in June, 1916: Otto Fischer and pal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulsterman Posted November 4, 2007 Share Posted November 4, 2007 A Bavarian medic of early 1917: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulsterman Posted November 4, 2007 Share Posted November 4, 2007 The most interesting one of all: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulsterman Posted November 4, 2007 Share Posted November 4, 2007 and a regular medic: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulsterman Posted November 4, 2007 Share Posted November 4, 2007 The Sanitatswagen 2 btn. IR 471, Summer, 1918: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulsterman Posted November 4, 2007 Share Posted November 4, 2007 In the trenches at Heudecourt, a medic (and friends) of IR 471 in the Summer of 1918: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulsterman Posted November 4, 2007 Share Posted November 4, 2007 An actual under fire picture- Eastern front, Spring, 1915 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted November 4, 2007 Share Posted November 4, 2007 WOW. That last one ... one in a million. Post #16 is bizarre. The long serving Red Cross NCO is wearing a combatant Iron Cross. He is a civilian. he is a noncombatant. And yet...the Boonzaier Hypothesis obviously comes into play here. #19.... I'm sure that corpsman is just hefting a medical hand grenade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry 24th Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 (edited) Good day Gentlemen.Here is the one and only imperial Medic / Stretcher bearer photo from my collection.Unfortunately, no further information on the man pictured. If not mistaken, the pole he is holding is part of a stretcher.Post number 8 by Ulsterman is a Fellow by the name of Anton Klein taken in the Autumn of 1915.He is pictured in Angolia's book on the Red Cross and is mistakenly labelled as bieng photographed in winter.Enjoy! Edited November 5, 2007 by Henry 24th Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulsterman Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 Dead to rights you are Henry!Small world. I must ask though-what was the SS/DRK gathering on pg. 249? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Boonzaier Posted November 6, 2007 Author Share Posted November 6, 2007 Hi guys,thanks for the photos, your efforts are appreciated. I have just finished an update to the page dealing with a bit of humanity in the war. Germans saving a Scotsman, Frenchmen saving a German etc. I hope to use all the pics with a few further updates.http://www.kaiserscross.com/76001/93001.htmlAll the bestChris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulsterman Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 (edited) ...speaking of the Chris Boonzair Iron Cross hypothesis:from "Feldgrau : 1916"pp. 90 "Das Eiserne Kreuz 1. und 2. klasse und Grosskreuz ist am 5. August 1914 erneunt gestiftet.2. klasse, schwarzes Band mit weisser Einfassung fur Verdeinste auf dem Kreigschauplatz oder besondere militarische verdienste in der heimat. Weisses Band mit schwarzer Einfassung fur daheim erworbene Verdienste." Edited November 7, 2007 by Ulsterman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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