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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.

Hi, nice to see that Bayern supports my view. The Freiwillige Krankenpflege comprised different large organisations comitted to helping in the medical field. Apart from the Red Cross there were Malteser, Johanniter, Georgsritter, the Samaritans, the katholischen Pflegeorden, the evangelische Diakonie and the Jewish Krankenpflegevereine. At the proposed time of the photo 1907 a "Dienstverordnung für die freiwillige Krankenpflege" was issued and gave instructions as to their work and status. During the war 213.000 women and men worked with the freiwilligen Krankenpflege. http://www.sehepunkte.de/2014/07/24485.html GreyC

As far as I know (Chip will know better) these are members of the freiwillige Krankenpflege (voluntary medical care units). GreyC

Hi dksck, and you thought IR LIR RIR were all? There were also Landsturmregimenter (not only Landwehrregimenter), Landsturm Btlns, Landwehr-Ersatz-Infanterie Regimenter and Reserve-Ersatz-Infanterie-Regimenter. Do you have fair reading skills in German? GreyC

Hi dksck, so it seems. The unit was Saxon. And yes, 2nd Btl. is correct. See: http://genwiki.genealogy.net/RIR_243 GreyC

Hi Gordon, he then had the rank of Postoberschaffner. That´s the third, later second lowest rank in postal hierachy, if I am not mistaken. GreyC

Hi Gordon, "On the occasion of your 40th service jubilee I express my best wishes to you. In connection with this I thank you and voice my appreciation for the loyal services rendered to the Reich. With regards to the signature of A.H.: Compare it to the other ones on the documents posted here and you will note that they are identical. This is because they used a signature machine that worked with ink. It looked better than a stamp that some people also used. So it is A.H.´s signature but not signed personally by him. GreyC

Too bad. That´s unusual. Sorry to hear that. GreyC

Hi opeator, you will most probably find his photo here: Adolf Kümmel: "Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 91 im Weltkriege 1914 – 1918", Erinnerungsblätter Preußen Bd. 177, Oldenburg-Berlin 1926, Stalling, 473 Seiten GreyC

Good morning, @Martin W: Thank you for your post and proposal. nesredep, Sicherheitsdienst and now Odulf have voiced their opinion, let´s see if there are any more. @Odulf: Apology accepted. GreyC

Good evening gentlemen, maybe we could ask a moderator or the starter of this thread Martin W to amend the heading with "Kaiserliche/Imperial and..." or the like so as to avoid disappointment of expectation of prospective viewers? Just an idea.... GreyC

Hello Morten, thank you for your kind and constructive suggestion. GreyC

Thank you nesredep! GreyC

Odulf, I don´t quite understand how you could think that. It was a question I asked politely on Wednesday especially because I am aware of the fact the thread has as it´s title "Kriegsmarine cap tallies" but there are posts of cap tallies of Imperial Navy cap tallies within the thread nonetheless. So, as not to be rude or overreaching I wanted to know if it is ok to post them. As there was no answer on this fairly frequented thread after three days I dared to post one pointing to the fact, that nobody disagreed up to now. Can´t see any form of ultimatum. Sorry. Will refrain from posting anything in this thread from now on. GreyC

Hi, as nobody replied to my question I´ll just start posting Imperial Navy cap tallies that I find interesting from my collection. First up a sailor of SMS Fuchs, a tender and artillery school ship that was also used within the Reichswehr until 1928. Note the Funk-Telegraphen Gast patch on the left arm of the Obermatrose. GreyC

Hi Nesredep, very nice! GreyC

Hi, good evening! As this thread is named Kriegsmarine Cap Tallies.... I have obstained from posting WW1 and prior Cap Tallies of the Kaiserliche Marine. Were it ok to do so, with regards to thread title? I´d have a couple of interesting ones, if interest is there. Thanks, GreyC

Hi there, and here of the METEOR from my collection. Grey Hello! My apologies if this is too off topic. But there were also civil cap tallies during that time, especially worn by the crews of the North German Lloyd and HAPAG, but also others. For example here some folks from the Hamburger Seebäder-Dienst, a line in connection with the HAPAG, that serviced some North-Sea Islands and harbour towns. Greyc

Hi, it could well be a shooting medal. it shows a typical target and King = König should stand for Schützenkönig. The pin below reads Vorstand=board (or steering committee). All shooting societies (indeed all clubs) have one. GreyC

Hi Andreas, if it were Nauder the writer of the name forgot the arch above the "u" . Possible but in official documents rather rare. The name Nander is scarce but there were people who had this name. GreyC

Hi Chris, to me it´s Johann Nander. The short horizontal line across the "N" seems to have been drawn to have ahelp aligning the others in height. GreyC

Hi, it says Sedan 1931 Höchste Ringzahl / Highest Ringnumber (Highscore). Therefore I´d suggest a privat/civilian medal of a shooting competition (Schützenfest) GreyC

Hi nesredep, I might have some photos from Norway, I don´t think Narvik, though. Mostly ships. Don´t know if interesting enough or fitting for this thread. GreyC

Ah, thanks: Deutsche Reichsauszeichnung für Leibesübungen GreyC

Hi Morton, thanks for your reply, what´s DRL, please? GreyC