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    GreyC

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    1. Thank you Chip, as I don´t have many Bavarian uniform photos in my collection I wasn´t aware of that. Good to know. GreyC
    2. Impressive, didn´t know there were that many variations. Why is there a difference between those with a blue middle ring and those with the blue center? Different formations? GreyC
    3. Good mornig, very interesting thread. The last picture was taken in front of a salesroom of the Adlerwerke, who at that time (1940s) were best known for their automobiles. From 1909 to 1935 they were also involved in manufacturing airplane engines and later planes. Their HQ was in Frankfurt/Main GreyC
    4. Hi jf42, thank you for your suggestion. They already confer with each other about the photo. Will let you know what they come up with. GreyC
    5. Hi Larry, best of luck! Find attached an aerial view of Heligoland with the two 30,5cm batteries at the end of WW1. (on which I focus more). GreyC
    6. Good morning, "Meinem sehr verehrten und geschätzten Chefarzt des Mar[ine] Lazaretts Helgoland Herrn Mar[ine] Oberstabsarzt Dr. v. Hase zum freundlichen Gedenken gewidmet. Helgoland 15.06.1943 von Lewinski Mar[ine] Verw[altungs] Oberinspektor und Leiter der Laz[arett] Verw[altung]" It´s a dedication from the Mar[ine] Verw[altungs] Oberinspektor and chief of administration of the Heligoland Naval Hospital von Lewinski to its chief surgeon Naval Oberstabsarzt Dr. v. Hase. Hope that helps, now you know who he is and where he was active. The 3rd medal could be a long service medal? Now that you have his name you can look him up in the Naval Ranglisten. GreyC
    7. Hi Chris, or if he had gotten killed. So maybe good for him he wasn´t mentioned.. GreyC
    8. Hi Chris, very nice! Do you know whether Fw Gonschoreck ´s deeds were mentioned in the regimental history? He seems to have survived the war. GreyC
    9. Hi Andreas, it is a pillbox forage cap as worn by husars: (link courtesy Trooper_D) http://www.uniformology.com/HUSSARS-09.html GreyC
    10. Hi Trooper_D, good to know. Thank you for the additional info. I am glad you responded to my question, though I had honestly hoped for a bit larger echo. The other friends of historic cavalry uniforms in this forum seem to be busy with stable duties . GreyC
    11. Hi Trooper_D, thank you for providing these excellent links. However they seem to show uniforms post 1881. I do have a feeling based on the design of the CDV, that this is a pre-1881 uniform. Nonetheless very informative and illustrative and many features seem to have been the same after 1881. GreyC
    12. Hi LarryT or any other, can you tell me the time-frame (from-until) the silk oakwreath application on the cap was used? Did it change in 1935, too? GreyC
    13. Hello Trooper, thank you for coming forward and supplying your knowlwdge to me as an uninitiated. I heard someone call it (offline) a strange mix of dragoon and husar. GreyC
    14. Good evening Gentlemen, I got this photo today. It was taken by J. Jacklett of Aldershot in the second half of the 1870s (I presume, as the studio opened 1875 and the design on the reverse looks 1870s-ish). I have absolutely no knowledge of British uniforms (at all) but it does bear resemblances to German cavalry uniforms, so maybe this soldier belonged to a British one. But which? And is this a lanyard for marksmanship? Could you please help identify the unit? Thank you! GreyC
    15. Hi Bayern and Andi, thank you for your comments. I, too, think that it is probably the rhird option that comes into place. GreyC
    16. Hi Bayern, thank you for helping to date the photo correctly. However, there is a problem, as the reverse of the printed Carte de Visit shows that the studio was awarded a price at the 1889 Paris World Exhibition which lasted till Oct. 1889. The address 21, Rue Chabriére, instead of the older/first address of the studio 15, Rue Chabriére, also points towards the 1890s. The photo was clearly printed from the orignal negative (so no reproduction with internegative of the time). So: three possible explanations come to mind (maybe there are more). 1) The rifle was used longer in the legion 2) The photo was ordered at least three years after it was taken (because he ran out of copies) and the old negative was still available (which was uncommon after that long a time, but certainly possible.). 3) I know of German photo studios which specialized in photos for the soldiers in the local garison which had uniforms and props ready for their customers. They were not always up to date, of course. So you find soldiers on photos in uniforms and with props that were really past their times. GreyC
    17. Hi Tony, glad you like it. The size is standard for CDVs: 105x65mm, the photo roughly 95x54mm. GreyC
    18. Hi Chris, thank you for your kind words. GreyC
    19. Hello Gentlemen! This is a photo I got with some other civilian photos. I guess from a quick search in the web, that it is not that common, so I ´d like to show it to you. It depicts a soldier in full gear at the then headquarter of the French Foreign Legion in Bel-Abbes in Algeria, Africa, in the 1890s. The photographer seems to have been popular with the soldiers there. Comments welcome. GreyC
    20. Hi Chip, I doubt it. The author is a historian who is less interested in these details and more so in the way the protagonists described their live in the service. As hardly any offical documents / sources survived, she based her doctoral dissertation on ego documents. So there may be references to the uniform but not in a systematic sense. GreyC PS: The German Red Cross seems to have destroyed all the documents when moving from one place to another with it´s headquarter long fter WW2 as the files were regarded as ballast.
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