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    Here are some "stalked" EWs.

    1) Another "Wehrmacht" (four holes)

    2) Poland

    3) Bundeswehr (three holes)

    4) austrian XIV.Korps

    Edelweiß Feldkappe Wehrmacht.jpg

    Edelweiß (polnisch).JPG

    Edelweiß (Bundeswehr).JPG

    Edelweiß (Kragenabzeichen XIV.AK links ).JPG

    Hello dante!

    Right. The one with the crown is post-war. Probably a memory badge from the Leib-Inf.Rgt.

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    Right. The one with the crown is post-war. Probably a memory badge from the Leib-Inf.Rgt.

    Andy,

    I'm not saying this is not true, but do we have any proof either way on that? The only thing I have seen is the ID made by the museum at Sonthofen. They may well be wrong in attributing it to WWI, but I have seen no proof of postwar manufacture either.

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    Yesterday I recieved a photo, shows v. Dellmensingen and Archeduke Carl in Heltau (near Hermannstadt).

    The photo must have been taken between august and November 1916, because Carl had the stars upon the collar. This rank (General) he only had in that period. The austrian officer behind Carl wears a cap badge of the XII.Korps (Hermannstadt)

    Alpenkorps_(Dellmensingen,_Erzherzog_Carl,_Heltau,_Edelweiß).jpg

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    On ‎30‎.‎11‎.‎2016 at 04:11, The Prussian said:

    Yesterday I recieved a photo, shows v. Dellmensingen and Archeduke Carl in Heltau (near Hermannstadt).

    The photo must have been taken between august and November 1916, because Carl had the stars upon the collar. This rank (General) he only had in that period. The austrian officer behind Carl wears a cap badge of the XII.Korps (Hermannstadt)

    Alpenkorps_(Dellmensingen,_Erzherzog_Carl,_Heltau,_Edelweiß).jpg

    Does someone know, when it was exactly taken?

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    Great photo! You don't see 3.Jäger guys wearing a Bluse that often. He is wearing the Prussian style shoulder straps rather than the Hellgrün Bavarian ones. My guess that his Landeskokarde is a Baden one. One of the regiment's battalions was predominantly drawn from Baden.

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