Chris Boonzaier

I wonder if Waldo is in there somewhere????

Thanks.... the bloody feltgrau leiber still elude me, I only have a single for the Bluse.... but the grey 14th Jäger were a nice find indeed....

Aaaaahhhh... ok... that is another ting I must but on my search list then. I thought it would be skis... They are actually nicer boots than the ones who belonged to the schneeschuh batallion... but with the schratt ones at least i have a name....

This is an august 1914 Ausmarch photo, apparently 2nd Inf regiment.... although it was with Leib Regt photos... but I think we can assume that a regiment at that stage was perfectly fitted out... but check out the close up.... the Soldier has a regular other ranks Tornister... the two NCOs with sword and Portepee have officers Tornister, then an officer with officers Tornister (and smaller roll on it) then in front a guy with a radfahrer Tornister .... I think we can assume that Portepee NCOs wore the officers tornister? Is it written anywhere? Thanks Chris

I am not big on the ghoulish stuff, but this needed a good home so I bought it... I assume it was the souvenir of a French soldier... Interesting because 1) It is 1 bavarian Jäger, 2) The chin strap is the reservists version and seldom seen 3) the cross is not that often seen on the other ranks badge and 4) just behind the left ear the leather has been pierced.... this also went through the liner, and on that spot the liner has some old staining, so i assume the wearer was killed by a splinter. I wish I could put a name to him for a write up.... I assume a death which could have been avoided with a steel helmet...

People back then were wiser... Covid kills more people in a week than died of poison gas in all of WW1... yet the soldiers back then were all wise enough to listen to experts and wear their gas masks... I guess they did not have youtuber telling them it was not necessary ?

You nailed it.... when I saw it for sale I assumed it was the Hitler one... I did not look close enough... when it arrived I thought I was going crazy looking for him... just to realise it must have been one of a series and Hitler was still off drinking tea when this one was taken... close... but no cigar...

Ahhhhhh... funny thing is... when you see it you think that is the picture.... but it is not... he probably arrived later....

... what is so special about it?

I just managed to add another Fasbender Pic... from 1905 just after he had passed General....

OK... Here we go.... a marriage of identied bits and pieces.... Boots… Hans Weis was Born on the 24th March 1890. He entered the army in October 1914 and was initially sent to a Landwehr Regiment but in the 2nd Feb 1915 he was posted to an training Battalion of the Bavarian Schneeschuh Bataillon. On the 12th April 1915 he joined the 1st Company of the 1 Bavarian Schneeschuh Batallion. He served with them in the Tirol and Serbia. On the 12th June 1916 he was wounded by a shell spilinter in the Souville schlucht and after his recovery he seems to have sent some time as an instructor at the Schneeschuh training battalion, then taking part in the Machin Gun training course at Hammelburg. He then spent a year at the Ersatz Geb Maschinengewehr Komp. I. b.A.K. before joining the 1. M.G.K. of the I. Batl. Of Jäger Regiment 3. The Schneeschuh are not issue boots, very probably dating from 1915 and like most boots at this time were privately purchased. They were made by the bootmaker Josef Schratt Jnr. Bootmaked to the royal court, in Oberstdorf. Gamaschen Feldwebel Franz Xaver Biechl served in the 2nd Bavarian reserve Infanterie Regiment for the duration of the war, he was wounded as offiziers Stellv on the 14.4.1918 and died 10 days later Wadenstrumpfe Eugen Steinhauer served in the Leib-Regiment before the war, was an NCO in the 5th Bavarian Landwehr regiment during the war and ended up as a Offz. Stellv. "The making of, with a picture of Biechl... A different pair which are very likely WW1, you can see a piece added at the back of the sole/heel, for skis...

This is very interesting.... Ausmarsch in august 1914.... ist guy has a regular mannschafts Tornister... the next 2 seem to be senior NCOs... with what we call Officers Tornister... then a real officer with the tornister and no Brotbeutel and canteen, then a guy with a really strange one.... I did not know senior NCOs wore officer's Tornister? Are these NCO with portepee?

Thanks dave, I only recognised the "In" bit ? Ahhh... OK, has to do with the postscript to to the Kapp putsch.... "Als Reaktion auf den Kapp-Lüttwitz-Putsch bildeten sich in Sachsen, Thüringen und dem Ruhrgebiet während des Generalstreiks linksgerichtete Aufstandsbewegungen gegen die Weimarer Republik. So kontrollierte beispielsweise die "Rote Ruhrarmee" mit 50.000 Bewaffneten bis in den April 1920 weite Teile des Ruhrgebiets. Die revolutionären Aufstände wurden mit Hilfe von Reichswehr und Freikorps niedergeschlagen. "

Just recieved a Militärpass with the following Freikorps related stamps..... Check out the whole book here.....

A wonderful Militärpass in this group.... Can anyone figure out what "Mitgemachte Gefechte" he had in 1920?

... Johann Niebler had it all... Some documents and a very full MP....

It was the last hooorah for the 08/15... then it changed hands... I still have the big brother though

Here is my MG08/15 gunner....

How, 6 years later I managed to get the name of the gentleman... he was in the Leib regiment before the war, but mobilised in a Landwehr regiment... Steinhauer ... I managed to get a few paper items of his from his service in the leiber in about 1905

Bruno Weiss was a teacher, who served as a Lt. d. Res. in the 16th bavarian Reserve Infanterie Regiment, he was killed in March 1917 at La Bassee.... This is one of a handfull of items from his parents house....

A beer for that man! Yup... it is indeed.. ?

Wow... that guy kills it... he must have part of the nachlass? Does anyone know who the author is?

Bingo.... Other than in the small BIO, I have never seen pics of him... by coincidence I got 3-4 pages from an officers photo album... He is in 3 group photos... a rare find... higher ranks are easier to find, a lt is difficult...

Nope... a simple Leutnant....

I just received this today.... maybe the highest decorated of any officers at Regimental level and below....