WW1 Medic or stretcher bearer..

[Chris Boonzaier]

pics and postcards needed (Scans of them)

Thanks

Chris

[Guest Rick Research]

Lots and lots and LOTS of convalescent hospital group shots. Frontline, only these two

from 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:

[Guest Rick Research]

Unrelated and just coincidence of similar subject matter. "In memory of service in France."

[christerd]

Hi, not a front line photo but a medic with EK II

Hope it fits into the thread anyway.

Christer

[christerd]

And here is three more medics in a somewhat more "frontline" Photo

Bavarians?

Christer

[christerd]

Maybe this is a little offtopic? An wounded english soldier carried by four German POWs

But still an interesting card.

Christer

[Chris Boonzaier]

Theanks guys!

Those are a great start.

What is the exact uniform in post 4 ??

[Ulsterman]

Here's my contribution- I'll have more anon:

[Ulsterman]

and a most interesting one (Chaplain Ferd. Wagner, DivisionPfarrer 14th Res. Div.):

Edited November 4, 2007 by Ulsterman

[Chip]

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

[Guest Rick Research]

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.

[Chip]

It looks like the man in post #8 is wearing this armband with its large stamp.

[Brian R]

A proud Bavarian... he also has medical insignia sewn onto his right sleeve

Edited November 4, 2007 by Brian R

[Ulsterman]

sent from feldpost #55 in June, 1916: Otto Fischer and pal.

[Ulsterman]

A Bavarian medic of early 1917:

[Ulsterman]

The most interesting one of all:

[Ulsterman]

and a regular medic:

[Ulsterman]

The Sanitatswagen 2 btn. IR 471, Summer, 1918:

[Ulsterman]

In the trenches at Heudecourt, a medic (and friends) of IR 471 in the Summer of 1918:

[Ulsterman]

An actual under fire picture- Eastern front, Spring, 1915 .

[Guest Rick Research]

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.

[Henry 24th]

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

[Ulsterman]

Dead to rights you are Henry!

Small world. I must ask though-what was the SS/DRK gathering on pg. 249?

[Chris Boonzaier]

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.html

All the best

Chris

[Ulsterman]

...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