E Williams

Hello Chip....thanks for your kind comment. Any of your holsters unit marked? Here are some better photos, front and back, a bit faded but the blue is still there...a bit. http://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_09_2013/post-16240-0-06221700-1380373062.jpghttp://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_09_2013/post-16240-0-37767600-1380373128.jpg

I saw this as it arrived on the site. I too went to the dictionary and although it is a motto of the Clan Hay, it also is just Latin for "keep the faith/love/devotion which could very well have been use by the recipient to 'keep the loyalty' to the Fatherland.....IMO.

I have gone over with magnifying eyepiece lighted and I'm sure what is on every shoulder strap that can be seen is a black crown. I have found a 'red crown' for the Lieb GR 109 in searches but I've found no black crown shoulder straps.....................

Would anyone have a 20D shoulder board? The troop, front, second from left, his shoulder board insignia is see-able under glass.

Times like this is when I enjoyed taking a day and doing some Before and After Searching in Europe/Germany. I use to get a monthly magazine that the publishers did exactly that, find a photograph and then find the place where it was taken.

See, you have something I don't, that I want. I have a sawback S98/05 but it's unmarked to any unit, let alone a MG unit..

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But I hear tell, you have machine-guns!!!!!

1915 DWM unit marked 181. (JR) 4. (company) Saxon unit. http://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_09_2013/post-16240-0-94221200-1380320093.jpghttp://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_09_2013/post-16240-0-32681400-1380320136.jpghttp://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_09_2013/post-16240-0-74047300-1380320176.jpghttp://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_09_2013/post-16240-0-49818600-1380320214.jpg

All of them are wearing high riding boots and the Noncom standing center is wearing riding boots with spurs attached.

That would make them part of the 28th J.D., a Baden Div and was mostly recruited from Baden. Sounds good.

The guy on the left has riding boots with spurs and an open face belt buckle.

Damn!!! You guys are bringing back memories. The picture on the left reminds me on the Sundry boxes we got occasionally filled with cigarettes, chocolate (we called them John Wayne bars) only John Wayne could eat them, writing material, toiletries; etc etc . I do believe the german soldier ate better than the other armies during the Great War, especially if you were on the Western Front.

Interesting, thanks Dave. Those Kasernes haven't changed a bit I see. My group artillery Kaserne in Baben-Hausen was barracked in a WWI artillery Kaserne. It's very possible I've been in that Kaserne. I had an uncle stationed there and his german wife lived on in Karlsruhe after they divorced. She originally was from Neckerzimmern. But, why would a Regt based from Bradenburg be barracked in Karlsruhre? Maybe I'm not reading your reply right?

Yes, I do look for MG unit marked ones Chris, hard to find in good condition but easier to find than Dragoon, Cuirassier or Hussar. The collectors who have those hang on to them and the ones available are out of my reach. I want a Dragoon one that is available to go along with my Dragoon Schrimmutz but it's just not possible. But MG marked are harder to find than Inf and Artillery especially Bavarian. I'm always looking for a MG unit marked bayonet.................................

Here is a photo postcard. Their haube covers are marked '20'. The postcard was mailed in Karlsruhe and made in Karlsruhe but from my research material, the 20th was a Bradenburg unit, all of them. Am I looking in the wrong place? Any translation of the card text would be great. Thanks Ed http://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_09_2013/post-16240-0-38018400-1380243821.jpghttp://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_09_2013/post-16240-0-75322000-1380243890.jpg

1910 DWM unit marked 142.R.M.G.77 part of the 142 Infantry Regt, 29th Div. A Baden Division. http://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_09_2013/post-16240-0-73148100-1380236408.jpghttp://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_09_2013/post-16240-0-96520200-1380236470.jpghttp://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_09_2013/post-16240-0-27837000-1380236508.jpghttp://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_09_2013/post-16240-0-87209700-1380236545.jpg

I've seen a concrete bench like the one those soldiers are sitting on either in Spain or Crete.

I like that...a name with a photo...nice!!!

Thanks Bernhard........................

I will attach to an email and send what I have.

What a MEZ 2nd Cl? Sent you off a link.

as so?

I think I can do that. Give me a few............... Ed

That reminds me of cases and cases of beer coming in on a pallet hanging from underneath a Chinook at our FWD firebase in Nam. One thing we had plenty of was beer, not so much potable water but beer we had plenty of.

Not actually searching...finding one, maybe!!!!