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    Bayern

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    1. 8 minutes ago, ccj said:

      A very impressive list of awards and I like his field gray uniforms. I would love to see either in color, especially the 1910 tunic. 

      von Schjerning wears in the photo what it looks as a M1910 field grey tunic for Prussian general officers with chest pockets, rolled cuffs piped red , red piping at the front closure and around the collar, but with the blue collar patches piped in red of the Medical branch and over the patches the gold doppellitzen of the Blue Waffenrock instead of the Alt Larisch embroidery of the Other Generals . But, the 1910 tunic for Medical officers comported the use of large collar patches in blue piped red and a rear buton ,without litzen . the collar patches charged with litzen appeared with the M15 feldbluse . The shoulder boards of a Medical General were a special ones also . the Feldmutze , field grey with blue velvet band piped in red and the crown piping also red .Lampassen ? yes and red as with the peace uniform 

    2. A little contribution about the combatant or no combatant classes of decorations and how were attributed . Roughly if you were positioned in the rear of the front but under the range of fire of the Heavy Artilley of the Enemy you were eligible for a combattant cross . In WW2 the Long Range Bomber expanded the limits of the combattant . The famous German Doctor Ferdinad Sauerbruch was Medical General der reserve in the Wehrmacht Heer . He was serving in Paris when he was awarded the Knight Cross with swords of the War Merit Cross . But with swords why? because the Allied Bombers had bombed the Headquarters of the Army Group in which Sauerbruch was Medical Counsellor 

    3. During 1914 and 1915 five Landwehr Cavalry Regiments were raised . numbered  1 later 10, 2 later 11 , 90 and 92 and i suppose that the fifth was the Garde Landwehr Cavalry Regiment the data is from Nigel Thomas book The German Army in World War One (3) 1917 1918 , ilustrated by Ramiro Bujeiro . i had copied literally except my supossition of the Garde Landwehr Regiment . Thomas said also that they used the uniform of their parent Regiment . its all

    4. He was Transportation Chef of the Prussian Army before the war , then in 1914 Chief of Staff of the Seventh Army under General Josias von Heringen in 1915 Commander of the XIV AK and finally Chief of Staff acting Commander of the X AK in Hannover. please  enter your search as follows : Karl von Haenisch the Prussian Machine . there you will find more data

    5. On 05/09/2021 at 12:28, Mattyboy said:

      Here is another HOH3x winner. Not sure what the thingy is next to his EK1.... 

       

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      A very strange thing , the man wears what looks like a Infantry Kunftigefriedens uniform , Field grey with red collar and brandenburg cuffs piped in white but with the Rank Insignias of a Oberleutnant in the Provisional Reichswehr , the stripes on the cuffs and the Shoulder cords or more properly achselschlinge , he too carries a Prussian officer Pickelhaube .

    6. 3 hours ago, Deutschritter said:

      Here are the decorations for the Generalfeldmarschall (not as many, as I thought he would have) which I have gathered from the Ranglisten, sadly I am missing his WW I awards, although the picture shows he received the EK I:

       

      Roter Adlerorden, IV. Klasse mit Schwertern

      Erinnerungs-Kreuz für den Feldzug von 1866

      Eisernes Kreuz (1870), II. Klasse

      Kriegsdenkmünze 1870/71 für Kämpfer mit drei Gefechtsspangen

      Preußischer Kronenorden, IV. Klasse

      Preußisches Dienstauszeichnungskreuz

      Roter Adlerorden, III. Klasse mit der Schleife und Schwertern am Ringe

      Preußischer Kronenorden, III. Klasse

      Ehrenlegion, Ritter (FEL5/FE5)

      Silberne dem Imtiaz-Orden affiliierte Medaille (TNJmsM/TsM)

      Goldene dem Imtiaz-Orden affiliierte Medaille (TNJmgM/TgM)

      Osmanie-Orden, I. Klasse (TO1)

      Medschidie-Orden, I. Klasse (TM1)

      Fürstlich Reußisches Ehrenkreuz, I. Klasse (REK1/REKj1)

      Herzoglich Sachsen-Ernestinischer Hausorden, Großkreuz (HSEH1/HSH1)

      Roter Adlerorden, II. Klasse mit Eichenlaub, Schwertern am Ringe und der Krone

      Jubiläums-Eichenlaub „25“ 1870/1895

      Zentenarmedaille, 1897

      Stern zum Roten Adlerorden II. Klasse mit Eichenlaub, Schwertern am Ringe und der Krone

      Preußischer Kronenorden, I. Klasse

      Militärverdienstorden (Bayern), I. Klasse (BMV1)

      Albrechts-Orden, Großkreuz (SA1)

      Liakat-Medaille in Gold (TVM1)

      Roter Adlerorden, I. Klasse mit Eichenlaub und Schwertern am Ringe

      Friedrichs-Orden, Großkreuz (WF1)

      Roter Adlerorden, Großkreuz mit Eichenlaub und Schwertern am Ringe

      Alexander-Newski-Orden (RAN) durch Kaiser Nikolaus II. (Rußland)

      Militärverdienstorden (Bayern), Großkreuz (BMV.G.Kr.)

      Schwarzer Adlerorden

      Erinnerungszeichen zur Silbernen Hochzeit 1906

      Kette zum Schwarzen Adlerorden

      Brillanten zum Osmanie-Orden I. Klasse (TO1mBr)

      Nischan-Istechar oder Nischan-i-Istichar bzw. Orden des Ruhmes mit Brillanten (TNJmBr)

      Pour le Mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste (Friedensklasse), 1911

      Königlicher Hausorden von Hohenzollern, Stern Komture

      Brillanten zum Medschidie-Orden I. Klasse (TM1mBr)

       

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      GFM von der Goltz was send to Argentina in 1910 by the Kaiser as his personal representant to the 100 years conmemoration of Argentinian Independence . Its more than possible that he received some Argentinian Diplomatic decoration . 

    7. Hello , Deutschritter , Sehr interesant  ! I think that Herr Trutzschler von Falkenstein was a Royal Prussian Hauptmann der Reserve but his Civilian ocupation was that of Chemist . I dont believe that he was a Stabsarzt or Oberstabarzt if so the caption of the pic will say Royal prussian Oberstabarzt or Stabsarzt , apart the uniform he wears is clearly not Medical .  Thank you for your interest !

    8. On 25/08/2021 at 03:42, Stuka f said:

      A rare Belgian transitional cap;

       

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      I thik that the cap is not a transitional cap but a cap for Cyclist normally weared with goggles . your transitional caps were normally pillbox type forage caps in blue with red band to which some sort of peak was crudely added giving to the Infantry soldiers a unsoldierly appareance according to the words of General de Selliers the Belgian chief of staff at the beggining of the war

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