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Hello : Erich v Manstein in his book Verlorene Siegen (lost victories ) saids that the shoulder belt was a piece of the leather equipment of the officers introduced by General Heye during his time at the front of the Heeresleitung (1926 1930 ) and the strap was called Hautana the name of a well known manufacture of brassieres . it was abolished during the war with Poland .

Hello : appears to be Holzschuhe , Liliane and Fred Funken in one of their books , shows a figure of an old Volksturmann wearing the woodshoes and said that their rough aspect they were comfortables . perhaps with a pair of thick pure wool socks

Polskie Fiat or Austro Fiat 1935 ?

Hello : Really magnificent , its place must be , is my opinion ,at a bulgarian museum . King Ferdinand was as Prince and as King an important figure of Bulgaria s history . he proclaimed the country independence .

Hello : Navy , Matrosenregiment but where ? not in Flanders or North Sea , except during a hot summer . Is someone able to read the hellish characters ?

ccj : The riding trousers were not black ; the colour was a dark bluish grey (graublau ) and yes , in the field they wears officers and men a cavalry feldmutze of the same colour as the trousers . Moritz Ruhl plate about AH cavalry shows clearly the uniform . The odd looking cap was in fact a tyrolean hat .and was used only as parade item . One british author stated that the colour of the trousers was the same of the first AH feldgrau A dark grey with only the faintest shade of green . I dont remember his name but he writed an article about the KK landwehr for Tradition magazine . with many B W plates .

Hello , I agree with Markgraf , the uniform is a cavalry one , Reitende Tiroler landesschutzen . the tirolean riders formed a division not a regiment , the AH division was a half regiment of cavalry or artillery . in Germany an abteilung . the AH full division was named Truppendivision . the Tirolean riders numbered one staff and two field squadrons just before the ww1 they added a third . they belonged to the KK Landwehr . Existed another division of reitende landeschutzen a dalmatian one with two squadrons .Ethnically the Tirolean riders were 58 % german 38 % welshtiroler (italians) and 4% others . the Dalmatian riders were 82 % serbocroatians and 18 % others . both units wore the same uniform ,

Jock . Indeed a sad story ,the wound was severe , he was not transportable , they administered him a high dosis of serum agaist tetanus . perhaps he died of tetanus , it was not uncommon the late apparition of tetanus .60 or more days after the wound .

Hello : thanks for the material posted , one of the pics of dante is of garde grenadier ( brandenburg cuffs ) the 1st and 2nd bataillon wears white hairbush the 3rd (fusilier ) black hairbush, musicians red one . looking Caran d Ache I can not avoid to question why the french and others had the cliche of the big footed german ?

Stuka : Curious , interesting , The mayonnaise shoulder boards are very simmilar to the french treffles , used by hussards chasseurs a cheval and dragons , here in Argentina , some guys calls mayonesa , the gold yellow braid over the peaks of colonels and generals service caps . going back to the Garde my topic view was till now that of a group of mustachoed middle age men armed with Comblain rifles wearing large greatcoats and a sort of tall melon hat .inclusive i ignored they have field officers and distinction between infantry and chasseurs . Thanks

To The Prussian : A badge of the Pepiniere ? Could be , It was the only academy of military doctors in Prussia at least I know that they received their military instruction during 6 months or so in a Guard unit , perhaps the badge was for use with civilian dress on the lapels . the badge is good made but of cheap metal . one suggestion : I think that HR means Heereserve ,

A correction : It was not the Republic and not in 1932 who modified the uniform , was the monarchy and the Dictadura during 1926 .

To The Prussian : I believe that HR has no connectio with the Honved . the abreviated form in hungarian is KMH and in german KUL .

Hello : I think that is not Gral Queipo , Looks different , older and shorter in height , he wears a jacket with open collar shirt and tie . that was not common . the Republic changed in 1932 the open collar jacket of the 1922 regulations to an closed collar one . Only durin 1943 a open collared jacket was reintroduced . probably the photo is dated from 1943 onwards and taked in Spain and the Gral is receiving a German General and entourage visiting the country .

Hello Grey C : The officer is wearing a summer service uniform of the Imperial Navy . by the shoulderstraps I risks to say that he was a Stabsingenieur of the Torpedo ingenieure Korps . this branch shoulderboards were special ones with a black cord between the silver ones . the badge was an anchor rather great with a T superimposed .

Hello : The red shoulderboards for Musikmeister are an old model used during the Empire and the Weimar era , during the Empire the officials with 20 years of service were allowed a shoulderboard with a golden kantille cord interwoven with the red there were other colours of shoulderboards . with the feldgrau they were unified in red . The Musikinspizient of the ww1 era wears with the feldgrau uniform piped red and with swedish cuffs red collar patches with five equally spaced lines of gold braid and broad plaited shoulderboards of gold silver and red cords . The 5 lines simbolyzed the musical pentagram . on the cuffs in lieu of litzen braided Lyres ,I had never see a photo of the Musikinspizient . About the photo of the musikmester I dont know who is but I observe the use of saxophones well , In a book edited in the GDR about the Militarmusik in Germany , I read that the Luftwaffe was the only with saxos in their bands . Hitler dont like the saxos wich he linked too close with the jazz nigger music , degenerated music etc but Goering who believes he has a great culture dont conceived a band without saxos and imposed his will .

Hello : The 16th Reserve bavarian infantry regiment Adolf Hitler unit , departed and went in action wearing Landwehr mutzen . there were not enough helmets , Raymond Cartier in his biography of A H relates the use of caps and says also that because of the caps they were confounded with british soldiers . the caps have a feldgrau cover . exists a film with King Ludwig III reviewing troops with the cap,

Hello : photo 4 shows bavarian infantry with what appears to be Podewils Lindner rifles , a percussion breechloader used between 1858 and 1867 , The bavarians of photo 3 carry the bayonet of the Werder rifle used from 1868 onwards till replaced with the 1871 Mauser

Almost always the kunftige friedensuniform, were privately purchased . it was not provided by the Bekleidung Amt . It was authorized to all ranks inclusive privates and many purchased it .

Chris : There is another detail , the stand type collar , feldgrau uniforms have a stand and fall collar .

The badge is not much neat in the photo and the 10th and 11 th badges were very similar in shape . of course is not the badge of the 3rd of hussars . the date of the photo is around the turn of the century or more accurately between 1905 and 1914 . the haircut of your grandfather , the slim moustache and the clean shaved face , all are details of the era .

Bavarians belonging to th Leibregiment , and wearing the light blue uniform pre war ,1888 rifles and bayonets old style ammo pouches too . the cuffs appears clearly of other colour . red piped withe . buttons looks plain and bright . lion buttons were matt .

It looks like the uniform of the 10 th Prince of Wales own Royal Hussars Regiment .

If faked , very well done .

hucks216: Helmut Weize offers the soldbuch und wehrpass of General der infanterie von Obstfelder , WW2 era . 14 000 euros !!! take a look into his page .www weitze militaria Wehrmacht 1933 45 .