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    Bayern

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    1. Gentlemen , Its an interesting point . To my point of view the creation of a special collar patch for the use of Field Marshalls in April of 1941 was not a idiocy . was the natural consecuence of the state of the situation with a Third Reich on the peak of his power. thats for one side .on the other, the ever present antagonism between Army and Luftwaffe . estimulated mainly by the bombastic attitudes of Herr Goering specially about uniforms titles and honours . Apart not all the Marshalls changed to the new patch . As anecdotic i want to relate some that i read many years ago . A episode of the last day or so of the General Paulus command . It happened that Hitler promoted Paulus to FM but also a number of colonels to general . well , the taylors applied inmediately to the task of provide the new badges of rank. and managed to complete the affair .
    2. Carol I , for the Italian Marshall baton I suggest you to go to my post about it into Southern and Balkan States.
    3. Morar Andrei ; Finally I found the armored car of ww1 captured to the Romanians by the Germans , It was Russian . A Izhorsky Hotchkiss . later one of this type ended in freikorps hands named Lotta
    4. Mgebrow , or mgebrov was the name of a Russian Staff captain who designed a series of armoured cars on Renault and White chassis . More information in the site www tanks encyclopedia com .
    5. The Hungarian soldiers in the besieged fortress served well .at the same level of the Germans. General Kusmanek the Austrian commandant during the negotiations for the capitulation solicited the free retreat of his soldiers to Hungary. that was not granted .in Budapest exists a conmemorative monument of the defence of the fortress.
    6. Bartholomew : The tunic is very similar to the Prussian Ueberrock . used by the Russians until the reign of Alexander III
    7. The uniform is really much old fashioned and directly back to the tsarism .
    8. Hello ; The prussian regiments of JzP number 8 to 13 dont weared Kurassier helms except the officers . they used Dragoner helms and Dragoner boots. So the machine gunners portrayed must be JzP.
    9. Hello Chris : I am nearly sure that the lace means the status of Kapitulantenanwarter granted to the unteroffizier to which belonged the SB .in this case the lace was carried at the base of the SB
    10. Perhaps belonged to a Schuetze . To me is too big and stiff for a Student mutze.
    11. Gentlemen : First Boer War ? the weapon looks like a Martini Henry carbine. not as a Lee Metford one .
    12. Looks as if the german offizierstellvertreter had added a pair of badges of his own to the turkish pilot badge Apart , he is wearing a kunftige friedensuniform .coloured collar and cuffs , bright plain buttons and bright lace . perhaps the photo is of postwar era
    13. Not much . remember that the Flieger branch was of small size at the beggining of the war and until October of 1916 was not independized under genera von Hoeppner .
    14. Hello : Gentlemen , my pleasure , regarding to General Urban I aventure that during WW1 he dont had a first line command . other point that come to my mind is that probably he was awarded with the Militarverdienstkreuz during the occupation of Bosnia in the year 1878
    15. Hello Gentlemen ,Good news , I found into the Schematismus fur de KuK heer 1914 , our man or so I believe , Eduard Urban , who received the Militarverdientskreuz in 1879 , he was in 1914 Feldmarschalleutnant ,that is lieutenant general .
    16. Hello : The five pearl crown is a modern nobilty crown for noblemen without title .in Germany . modern refers to the class of nobilty . Otto von Bismarck was by birth only Herr von Bismarck Schoenhausen .
    17. Hello : The uniform could be light blue pike grey.one of the colours of Generals uniforms .the Austrian Generals were unique in wearing buttons with a design on them . a rosette . Artillerymen weared buttons with a design too but this was cannon and balls . All the other military corps weared glatte (plain ) buttons .Regarding to the name i suggests to look for a Urbanc . the germanized form . another question . Vrban is the paternal or maternal name ?
    18. Hello .: A question first , which is the name of your friends mother ? .second ,if the tunic is white ,or light blue and the buttons are not plain ,the man portrayed is a General .
    19. The Prussian : Pioniere ,or flieger,or railway, more improbably,Garde Artillery, The uhlan officer wears M15 bluse with lancer cap and carries a type of sabre not common. to me what appears on his shoulder board is an L. the man with tschako to me is a Garde jaeger.
    20. The Pussian and Farkas : First my best best wishes for both in this Christmas and coming New Year. Second, existed into the Prussia Army Doctors which were Regular . serving with the standing Army and Reservists .during the War Reserve Arzte were incorporated and other Doctors with no previous connection with the Military who volunteered were also incorporated as reservists but in commision .Apart the Pepiniere continued functioning with regular and newly incorporated students ,among this group many front experienced Unterarzte .that were included into the Reservists. The Prussian Army bureucracy was very compartimented but efficient and procured to find ever the correct niche to place every piece of the war machine with the correspondent uniform ,badge or distinctive .
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