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Nice Badge !

Excellent , thanks for share !

My Condolences !

My Pleasure ! i also discovered that existed in the Castro Cuba something as a VETERANS of the Spanish Civil War Association

Grone, as was customary in the KuK KK and KU Armies i said Servitore !

Dear Sr, they are Bavarians and, Generals. have you noted that General at the right of the pic wears Stohwasser gaiters ? as the Kaiser used to wear

numis , All i know about the Cubans which fought into the Brigadas Internacionales is that one of these was Rolando Masferrer , a well known leftist and adventurer , he was Senator and leaded a gang called Tigres de Masferrer . take a look in Wiki to his Biography ,Rolando Masferrer Rojas . about 1000 Cubans fought in the Spanish Civil War for the Republican side, the casualties were high some sources said that died. Another well known combattant was Pablo de la Torriente Brau ,Ramiro Azcuy, Joaquin Ordoqui, Jaime Cuevas , Policarpo Candon , Alberto Bofill and many more

A bit of curiosity , Your Great grandfather served in the 23 LIR but as ? he wears a soldier uniform I assume it is Field grey with grass green collar patches , but he wears gaiters and not putees , he dont carry rank stars on the collar patch so he was not a NCO , perhaps he was attached as motorcyclist to the regimental staff ?

Double piping under the Shoulder boards ,reserve

Well , I dont know that the Forestry Branch posessed four General equivalent classes of Fonctionnaires , Every day one can learn something new ,Thanks !

Lieutenat Colonel Equivalent is not High Rank ?

High ranked Civilian Servant , I think in a State Prosecutor

Military Dentist ,Thrilling ! The heavy old Lady and her not much lighter daughter Good old Maxim , Sokolov erbeutet ,( booty ) after the Battle of Tannenberg the Germans catch a great amount of MGs from Samsonov s Army .many nearly without a shot fired in angry because of the prudence of some regiment commanders who envoyed the valuable MGs to the Reaguard of the Regimental Trains , at least according to Alexander Solhenitsyn

About King Ferdinand of Bulgaria he was personally Roman Catholic , of the House Coburg Kohary a Catholic branch of the House Saxo Coburg Gotha , his mother was Princess Clementine of Orleans and his first wife and mother of his children was Princess Maria Luisa of Bourbon Parma , both women Catholics . Ferdinand caused a certain amount of irritation when he decided to re Baptize his son Boris two years after his first baptize as Roman Catholic , this time into the Orthodoxy and asked Czar Nicholas II to be Godfather, He was not King yet but Prince of Bulgaria , Bulgarians were mostly Orthodox as the Russians and existed strong feelings pro Russia. the other son Prince Kyrill was baptized Roman Catholic. King Ferdinand I of Romania was Roman Catholic, his wife Marie of Saxo Coburg Gotha , anglican and the future King Carol II was baptized Orthodox

Characteristic Saxon ( and Generals ) rear pockets .

A Legion D Honneur made in 18 karat gold and with 16 grams of weight , Third Republic era is annouced to sell at Ebay fr for 680 euros included the etui

Connecticut organized the 3rd Volunteer Infantry Regiment for Three Months service it was mustered in New Haven under Colonel Arnold the 14 of May 1861 , Cnel Arnold resigned and was replaced by Cnel Chatfield , the Regiment first was sent to Washington DC at disposition of the high Command , participated later in the operations in Virginia and finally took part in the battle of Bull Run with distinction . It was mustered out in August 1861 in Hartford . The Regiment was part of the first Brigade under Colonel Keyes in the first Division commanded by Gral Tyler

ccj , alles klar ! I too think that is a Dragoon tunic

Clearly visible crowned monogram on the Shoulder Boards

The monogram on the shoulder boards is a crowned double W ? or the crowned double F of the 17 th Mecklenburg dragoons ?

HELLO , it was not un common until WW1 specially regarding officers .

If from Cavalry, Dragoons ?

Very Interesting,Thanks !

PREM, for the future take in account that Muslim States never uses something like a Cross in badges or emblems or decorations. inclusive misunderstandig the Geneva Cross for a Christian Symbol they dont uses the Red Cross Flag or Brassard ,instead they have the Red Half Moon or the Red Lion and sun in times of the Imperial Iran , the Lion and sun badge was abolished in 1980 and replaced with the Red crescent

ccj : Magnificent !