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Hello , So i think. there i discovered that previous to the MG08 existed a MG 1899 and a MG 01

Hello . There is a interesting site in French about MGs of WW1 . www.mitralleuses.fr./Allemande .take a look ,the site contains many pictures

Hello , Thanks for share. The Lorette Heights were a very strategic position for their tennants , In past wars existed the conviction that who commands the Heights Commands France. In October 1914 ,Bavarian troops of Prince Rupert Army occupied the Heights and received the order of hold firm there.

Hello ,I had forgotten the Julian Alps , Irish Gunner possibility is suitable. Something else ,there is a italian war film of 1970, Uomini contro la Guerra, the plot is about the first world war in the Asiago Plateau ,were a Italian Division lead by a foolish General suffers badly. The film was realized In the then Yugoslavia due to the opossition of the Italian Army. the field scenes were filmed in the Slovene Alps

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Hello GreyC ,Well ,then they are two possible reasons for use the device, one ,the shot with blank cartridges other the use of real ammo with lower charge of propellent perhaps that of the Gehwer 1888 .

Hello , Thanks for Share, once upon a time I was the owner of a Cigarette Cards Album titulated Rhumesblatter des Deutsche Geschichte .a very nice piece covering from Teutburger Wald to the Herero war. the cover was embossed with medaillons in relief ,also oak leaves and so on all matt gilded

Hello GreyC , If I had understand well you suggested that the device is a recoil strenghtener,

Hello, Since ever i am an appasionate of the History of the Austro Hungarian Empire and sice i read The White Guard , the Novel of Bulgakov ,interested in Ucrainian History. thanks for the video althoug I dont understand Ucrainian .some knowledge of the facts i have

Hello , Certainly US Navy model 1852 Epaulettes for Captains were very similar ,but the eagle was in silver and lacks on the field the anchors equally in silver .

Never seen before the device. perhaps some sort of muzzle brake ?

Strange to see the Turkish War medal on the left side

Hello again ,The lack of the crown over the head of the eagle puzzled me . now i think are French Second Empire , but National Guard.

Hello , I think that they are not French . The eagles are in silver ?

Hello Chris , Thank you .

Hello Chris, To me they are in the Carpathians, The Dolomites were more abrupts virtually all peaks and narrow gorges . Regarding to the Carnic Alps they are very rocky . The Carpathian Mounts were lower and more soft sic in appareance.

Hello , Looks fine, not from the Kammer , general good manufacture and quality coat of Arms with the Reserve cross .One year Volunteer ?

Very interesting ! Its amazing how the busbies are identical to the contemporary German Hussars busbies .Infante Don Fernando de Baviera y Borbon , was a first cousin and brother in law of King Alfonso XIII.

Hello Von Thronstahl. That make sense , the shape of the collar patches is those of the French organized Legion Tchecoslovaque.certainl y the uniforms looks like AH but the man in the centre wears what appears to be a French vareuse bleu horizon ,the badge is rare the czechs used an oval one in dark blue cloth with the capitals C S in silver. the badge showed appears as a polish eagle over a pointed cloth shield .

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Nice coffee grinder . as the French used to call the MG 08 . the pic must be of the very beggining of the war . the men belonged to the 106 Infantry regiment ,a Saxon unit. note the cuffs and the monogram over the shoulderboards , the crowned G of KIng Georg .

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Hello Von Tronstahl , I think that the men in the pic are members of some of the paramilitary forces of the Austrian republic .Heimwehr .their collar patches are not Army shape

Hello , The pic of a group of Bavarian soldiers and a few civilians is of wartime , there is not any officer in the pic . regarding to date the pic could be of end of 1914 or early 1915 . One man is a jaeger senior NCO , the others mostly infantrymen . one man wears What appears to be the uniform of the Leib Regiment .