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Hello , To me ,Saxon policeman about 1921.

Hello , The creator of the Arab Legion was the then Lt Colonel Frederick Peake. he was commisioned from the Imperial Camel Corps to inspect the security in Palestine.in 1920 he was ordered to recruit two forces , totalling about 150 men .during 1921 22 he formed the Reserve Mobile Force origin of the Arab Legion . Peakes Pasha rose to the rank of Jordanian Lieut, General . he was born in 1886 and died in 1970. The TJFF was created in 1926 with cadres drawn from the Legion . Sir John Bagot Glubb ,took command of the Legion in 1939 and  transformed it in a military force worth of consideration and not only a security force o cope with internal unrest.

King Abdullah I first emir and King of Transjordan , now Jordan, used to wear military uniform in public appareances . sometimes he weared the kalpak as headgear. Since 1921 existed a body of the King Personal Bodyguards integrated by Circassians who wears the kalpak and a Cossack type tunic .

Hello tony, The French Chasseurs a pied and Chasseurs alpins, used the uniform showed during almost all WW1, sometimes mixed with bleu horizon pieces. more,they went to the battlefiel in 1940 still with a mix of blue and khaki. they used mattblack painted Adrian helmets. today they used a Parade uniform that is blue .

Thanks, to note too the three laced feldstiefel that replaced at ssome extent the old knobelbecher, and not generalized due its high cost

Tony ,Dark blue near black was current before the war, inclusive in officers and NCOs kepis.the sidecaps post 1942 tended to represent the arm or branch of service as exactly as the old kepi. the burgundy red piping on a blue body could belongs to a medical of the colonial infantry. 

Hello ,Grey C. My pleasure. curiously into the Weimar Reichswehr the same shiessauszeichnung were used again

Hello tony, USA made and supplied. thats clear but which Free French unit ? please, what colour is the piping? in the pics its not very clear.the Free Frenchs after the landings in North Africa begins to be supplied with USA made uniforms.the sidecaps were  the most french item of uniform . and of a great variety.

Thanks ,peter monahan!

Interesting! , a Full Feldwebel, Etatsmassige Feldwebel. to note too the single cockade on his mutze.Bavarian of course.

Hello, The Hussar, could be a Spanish one , of Pavia Regiment, red dolman with silver cords .light blue pelisse and breeches with silver braids. three stars on the cuffs also in silver and the thick silver lace above in form of hungarian knot indicaes the rank of colonel. as the man looks young ,probably he is a member of a Royal House. either the Spanish or other. the date ,between 1890 and 1910

Regarding the Guardsman, the sentry carries what appears to be a Snider carbine used between 1866 and 1871 in Home Regiments and until 1901 in India .

By the braid on his collar he belongs to the Jaeger zu Pferde. rank ,Leutnant , and regiment ,the 13th . this unit was formed in 1913 and garrisoned in Saarlouis. their facing colour was dark blue. the man on the photo wears a modified Jager Zu Pferde Tunic.

Hello, Thrilling ! especially thinking about the probable use of the knives. 

Buellmeister, The man also wears leather patched breeches, I venture foot Artillery because of the brandenburg cuffs . Field Artillery, Train and Dragoons have swedish cuffs 

Chris , Another possibility is Serbia in late 1915, I insists about the recognition patches . 

Hello , Just discovered, Interesting pictures .of a interesting man

Hello bolewts 58, I agree . The Freikorper has not much in common with the SA recruited initially among peacekeepers of Beer Halls or Taverns. dont forget that the Stahlhelm of  true war veterans was about 500000 members , and preceded the SA . The Socialist counterpart ,the Reichsbanner Shwarz Gold Rot ,created after the November Putsch was about 250000 members. 

Chris , Yes, the swallow nests were for all musicians the sme pattern . with independence of the instrument they played ,the musicians were called Hoboist ,Infantry and Navy, Trompeter in Cavalry and Artilley ; Waldhornist in Jaegers and Hornist into pioneers. the Stabs musicians ranking as Feldwebels carried Swallow nests with a 5 cm long gold or silver fringe below. 

Hello, The So called German Revolution after WW1 is interesting and not much alike to the Russian 

And the Swedish national colours in the middle of the ribbon

Chris , The collar Litze appears to be over a black patch . apart, is a single litze and not a double one .probably he is a pioneer or a telegraphist , or a flieger ,bavarian of course 

Perhaps a litlle note book, German senior NCOs used to carry one in the same place

5 hours ago, Chris Boonzaier said:

This is a pretty cool one, with the swallows nests

Hornist ?

Fine artwork !  The Gold Kantille appears to be of superlative quality but is too  new in appareance , 

Hello tony,Thanks and Happy New Year !

Thanks , In the book is a dramatic description of how the war minister was murdered. also of the arrive of General Maercker and of the repercutions in Saxony of the Kapp Luttwitz Putsch.Renn whose real name was Arnold Vieth von Golssenau , was officer into a Saxon Infantry Regiment and participated in the WW1 since 1914 to 1918.after the war he stayed into the Army and then entered in the Security Police , in 1930 he become communist.