E Williams

Ed,

I am not quite sure what you are asking here. In the first instance a German company did not have an XO and Reserve Regiments did not exist in peacetime.

Regards

Glenn

That is interesting, first, didn't know they didn't have XOs, who then would have been second in command in a company?

I'm trying to get info on a luger that is a 1908 first issue unit marked, 36.R. Now if the 'R' was not in script, it would designate this unit as non-Reserve, in this case the 36th was by designation a Fusilier Regt but this unit mark is with a 'script' R and that, before the war designated the unit as a 'reserve' unit.

Ed/Gents

Got a couple of neat items on the way lugerwise, didn't cost much but way cool.

Eric

Hey Hoss....these items get lost, slow boat or what?

Ed

Could some one provide the name/s of the XO/s of the 3rd Company of the 39 Reserve Inf Regt between 1909-1911?

Thanks

Ed

Same one.......I couldn't comment on it's authenticity because I hadn't heard of the story before. I know Kipling quite well but his son in WWI, no.

Thanks Chris.......interesting in more ways than one.

I'm only 91 so I've a few more years yet!!!!!!

There was no Saxon "love" regiment.

But you are correct about the Leib Regiment's buckle. That buckle on Ebay.de is misidentified. It's a private purchase piece, as is the belt and I'll bet both are not unit marked. Wishful thinking on the part of the seller.

Chip

Thanks Chip.....Ed

Monique called to say she is stopping soon with breakfast, can't beat French pastry and another surprise gift to start out the day!!!!

I understood that the belt buckle for the Saxon Lieb Regiment 100 was silver base with brass Saxon roundel? Am I wrong?

Ed

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Koppel-mit-Portepee-Garde-Inf-Reg-Nr-100-Dresden-/111268726823?pt=Militaria&hash=item19e8220827

Thanks Andy.....more than thought or very little noted in major research sources.

Nice hat !

I am still trying to understand this... you promise to leave them alone if they buy you militaria??

I should have used 'Sugar Daddy' as my member's name................

One thing not in my collection is a 1910 grey peaked cap (Bavarian Medical Officer). Acquired this from Bay State. This and a few other items on their way are gifts from a few lady friends.

Thanks for sharing that. I was interested in seeing the rifle itself.

Ed

It would be quite common, especially if he served in the tropics as it was for many years afterwards. Getting malaria back then was like getting the flu and we all know what happened to so many returning vets in 1919. We had malaria pills we took everyday in Nam and another every Monday.

Take anyone out of their environment and you'll see health problem and WWI brought so many off the farm for the first time and exposed them to all kinds of deceases. The high death rate during the American Civil War was not due to battlefields deaths but by deceases.

Ed

Thats insane... some guys still shoot original WW1 ammo....

Probably why it never sold. You know these guys who still shoot 9mm WWI ammo, tell them to save 16 rounds of 1917 dated for me.

Need one......first one I've seen but I haven't really searched for them either.

http://www.simpsonltd.com/product_info.php?products_id=31658

Those are nice examples. I did a search for some WWI 1917 dated rounds to fill this box and I came across on Ebay a 1918 box filled with original rounds, asking price was $550.00, it didn't sell.

As for 16 rounds vs 20, I don't know but I've not be able to understand all the hoopla about going to the metric system either.

Rick is right though about the rarity of the boxes w/ rounds, an added bonus. Great display item too.

It finally arrived today from Germany..............

If these are not authentic, please, don't shoot the messenger because I have no idea if they are or not: Ed

http://www.collectorsfirearms.com/medals-insignia/

Oldenburg's peacetime contingent was IR 91, DR 19 and I./FAR 62, but the Grand Duchy fielded more units during the war. Among these were:

• Inf.-Rgt. Nr. 411, formerly Inf.-Rgt. bzw. Küstenschutz-Rgt. Oldenburg, a mixed Hanoverian/Oldenburg/Braunschwieg regiment

• I./Res.-Inf.-Rgt. Nr. 74

• Stab, II. u. III./Res.-Inf.-Rgt. Nr. 79

• Res.-Inf.-Rgt. Nr. 259

• III./Res.-Inf.-Rgt. Nr. 441

• I./Ldst.-Inf.-Rgt. Nr. 22

• Res.-Drag.-Rgt. Nr. 6

• Stab u. I./Feldart.-Rgt. Nr. 94

• Stab u. I./Res.-Feldart.-Rgt. Nr. 20

I do not believe the award rolls for Oldenburg's main wartime award, the Friedrich August Cross 1st and 2nd Class, have survived, but they may turn up someday (Anhalt's were reported lost, but later found in a castle where they had been moved for safekeeping). I believe the records of the House Order of Peter Frederick Louis are in the hands of the former ruling house, and there is a dispute between two branches of that house.

Thanks Dave....good info. The House Order is one thing I have interest in.

If Oldenburg provided such a small contingent of troops to the war, is there a record somewhere of what Oldenburg awards were given and the amount?

Ed

Hi Ed!

Yes. Oldenburg had the Inf.Rgt.91, the Dragoner-Rgt.Nr.19 and the I.Abt. (with three batteries) of the FAR62.

The II.Abt. was in Osnabrück.

In Oldenburg also were a part of the justice-personal of the 19.Inf.Div., the command of the 37th Inf.Brig. and the command of the19th field-artillery brigade

Thanks....I would think anything unit marked from anyone of those regiments would be very rare?

Is it fact that Oldenburg fielded only one Cavalry (19 Dragoons) and one infantry regiment, as well as a single artillery battalion?

Ed

Chris, do you frame and display your award docs or do you just file them away?

The older (pre-1909) ones are worth more and are IMO nicer.

Thanks for that info.....

I have found the Bavarian pre-war Order of Military Merit with the enameled arms in the same catagory. Real nice award.