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Hello I read that he received the Medal for the winter battle in the East . the ribbon was red with a narrow central band of white and in the middle of that a narrower black line

Hello Paul R ,I can assist .

Very very nice ! appears to be of pre war issue .the True Jaeger Grungrau sic . It was used by Machine Gunners and mounted Rifles also .

Gentlemen .  I want to tell the story of Dr MD Wilhelm His jr 1863 1934 .the discoverer of the His bundle in the heart .he was Swiss ,born in Basilea ,his father MD Wilhelm His sr was cathedratic in Switzerland and Germany In Leipzig . Dr His sr decided that their sons must retained the Swiss Nationality , but when His Jr was appointed in a Chair in Leipzig automatically received the Nationality of Saxony , later appointed in Berlin he received the Prussian citizenship . at the beginning of the war although he was not Obliged to nothing he voluntereed for the Medical Service of the Prussian Army first as Civilian later as military doctor thanks to Dr Schjerning ,Generaloberstabsarzt .during the next four years he served in the German Army as Consultant Dr for diseases and epidemics .from Poland to Turkey and Armenia .Another example was Dr Johann Plesch ,Hungarian ,Prussian citizen since 1905 .Altough he was a reservist Doctor of the Austro hungarian Army he voluntereed for the Prussian Army and served ,first in Berlin and soon in the Eastern Front were he won the Iron Cross . He said : I received the Cross for stay serene and when My Field Hospital was encircled by the Russians manage to retire swiftly via a hidden road without the loss of any patient or equipment .In other order but vinculated with Switzerland and Germany in WW1 . Dr Ferdinand Sauerbruch the well known surgeon was German but at the beginning of the war was working and teaching in Switzerland . He leaved the country to serve in the Prussian Army but his service was interrupted because the Swiss authorities desire that he returns and moved in this sense , Sauerbruch returned but conserved his rank and position in the Prussian Army ,alternating time In Switzerland and Germany and her Allies

Peter, the first are anti splinter googles used by USAAF bomber crews . specifically gunners . gunners wear also M1 helmets and protective vest . regarding the second mask i see that thing on a photo of USA soldiers in WW1 . 

The USAAF googles were called Anti Flak googles

Perhaps he voluntereed in 1914 or 1915 and at the end of the war he returned home

Very Good ! 

22 hours ago, The Prussian said:

Hello!

We had a Feldartillerie-Regiment 277 and a Fußartillerie-Batterie 277.

FA normally stands for Feldartillerie

Yes and Feldartillerie regiments were formed of two Abteilungen the Foot Artillery were formed of Bataillonen

Thank you !

5 hours ago, JapanX said:

Doc was issued to 

Яков Маркович Брегман/Yakov Markovich Bregman

Владелец сего имеет право носить и держать пистолет системы Веблей-Скот/The owner of this document has a right to carry and hold Webley-Scott gun

Original doc was issued on the letterhead from

Начальник Киевской Столичной Милиции/Head of the Kiev Metropolitan Police

Then it was crossed out and stamp added that reads

Киевский столичный атаман/Kiev metropolitan ataman

The stamp at the photo reads exactly the same.

So they used old unissued form to fill their current needs  

 

This is how typical imperial russia gun permit looks like (Dvinsk, 1907).

 

Regarding Webley & Scott.

Original advertisment.

Very interesting ! The 7.65 mm pistol costed 25 roubles and the 6,35 mm one the same amount

Hello Gentlemen :  1918 was a turbulent year for Ucraina 

On 26/02/2020 at 03:23, 1812 Overture said:

Well, ok, 1813 may be my invisible brother
I know there is a bearded Prince of Austro-Hungarian Empire, but it has nothing to do with this subject.
I have some pictures of the order of the Cavaliers Hohenzollern, but they may duplicate the previous pictures. .

The man on the first pic is Archduke Joseph Ferdinand of Austria , and Great Duke of Tuscany .

The Cavalry portepee , was made of leather and called Faustriemen . for officers  it carries the same knot as the Infantry ones . the Prussians were made of black leather with the white represented by three lines made of silver wire , The Bavarians applied over red leather a silver lace stitched with light blue lines . Wurttembergians were of black leather with red lines stitched on 

Thats the point .

Hello again , I have just found in Militarische Antiquetaet Emig , site a 1889 OD offered for sale .they says Weyersberg and Co ,1915  Kammerstuck . and enlarging one pic you can see the monogramm or Cypher of King Karl 

Einjahriger Freiwilliger D Nebelung . King William II ascended to the Throne in 1891 the change of the Cypher must had follow the enthronement of the King but its not impossible that a good batch of Offiziers Degen M 89 continued to be supplied by the Manufacturers with the old cypher . 

MG1918 ,Thanks for share again !

Glen J :  Thats right .  In my precedent post  I dont mentioned that for no made too long the post . Another Generals Kepi was that of the Veterinarian General . the  same as that of the Doctor but wiith a braid of Sage leaves . finally the green kepi of the General Postmaster carried a braid of miosotys flowers and leaves .

Surely it will look very well over a Bunte Rock !

Glen , The French kepi pour General model 1931 was of madder red fine cloth with a black cloth band . on the band it carried a braided motif of oak leaves and acorns in gold . this motif was of a width of 56 mm for General de Brigade and was placed centrally on the black band all around .on the upper part of the band where it mets with the red upper one ,are fixed from down to over the following ornaments 1 the famous baguette of a gold cannetille wire that holds gold sequins . then a gold cord of 3.25 mm width sewed all around an finally a gold cord of 15mm width . In the joint of the band and the peak was sewed a soutache of gold Russia braid of 5mm width . The kepi for General de Division carried the same  baguette and cords but instead of the 56mm braid carried two ,one the upper of 15mm width and another lower of 12mm width , The Marechal de France  kepi carried three rows of braid ,one of 15mm and two of 12mm .The description i had made ifs for Combattant Generals , the kepis of the other classes of Generals were different . that of Medical Generals for example was madder red but the band was crimson velvet and the embroidered motif was of Acanthus leaves in gold . 

Hello, Luddendorf was a very rara avis .His Love Story with Frau Pernet was absolutely uninimaginable for a man which all considered too serious .Luddendorf at difference with Petain for example was not a womanizer .Dr Ferdinand Sauerbruch operated after the war the General of a severe Thiroid Basedow .that explains the constant irritation face expresion of Luddendorf .During the anamnesis of the patient Sauerbruch discovered the circustamces of the beginning of the Illnes .The General related that he began to felt bad after the famous Liege episode , when Luddendorf advanced in the dark of a August night against the Belgian Army positions at the head of a Infantry Company and were constantly received fire from the Belgians .He remembered how the men at their sides were shot dead and the peculiar noise of the bullets hiting a human body. Apart ,in his way he had found the dead bodies of General von Wussow and staff victims of Artillery fire,but Luddendorf was Luddendorf and go ahead until he reached the gate of the Citadel of Liege ,he knocked on the door with the pommel of his sword an he obtained the surrender of a hundredor so of Belgians . 

4 hours ago, Trevor said:

Pic of Langet..

The owner was Bavarian .

All Bavarians ,all Nice .

The Kaiser itself weared many times a Sam Browne with the double prong buckle .

Hello ,David .Hello Peter , very interesting to read your interchange of opinions !

David , Are Indian Army sowars ,from which Regiment ? In view of the absence of beard or moustache , I think in some unit of Bombay Cavalry . The Indian Lancers carried lance ,sword and carbine .when mounted the sword and carbine were carried on the saddle .when dismounted they carry the sword hanging and the carbine on hand . the carbine is probably a Martini converted to .303 with a Metford barrel or a Enfield one