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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 .

Carol I , for the Italian Marshall baton I suggest you to go to my post about it into Southern and Balkan States.  

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 .

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.

Nice pieces , thanks for share.

Nice pieces .thanks for share 

Bartholomew : The tunic is very similar to the Prussian Ueberrock . used by the Russians until the reign of Alexander III 

The uniform is really much old fashioned and directly back to the tsarism . 

Well ; At least a repainting is a form of protection . 

15 hours ago, Chris Boonzaier said:

Hi,

blowing the dust off (Time accumulation, not Africa) I assume it could also have been worn like this?

I find ZERO info on insignia uniforms worn by Luftwaffe Feldpost, in fact, zero info on Luftwaffe Feldpost at all... does anyone have any thoughts in that direction?

Chris : The lace slide was carried at the base of the SB

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.

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

Perhaps belonged to a Schuetze . To me is too big and stiff for a Student mutze.

Gentlemen : First Boer War ? the weapon looks like a Martini Henry carbine. not as a Lee Metford one .

Morar Andrei : Thanks for share . very interesting pieces . the Austrian Skoda of 420 mm must be the only of his type surviving.as the Tacam , the Skoda of 305 mm is also a rare piece. sadly ,appears as if the material is not mantained.

Fritz : The style of number was rather uniform for all the German Empire Armies .

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

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 .

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

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 .

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 .

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 ?

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 .

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.

Hello . the observer appears to be a major .of technical branch .