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Hi Andreas, it is a pillbox forage cap as worn by husars: (link courtesy Trooper_D) http://www.uniformology.com/HUSSARS-09.html GreyC

Thank you. GreyC

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

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

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

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

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

Nice! GreyC

Hi Bayern and Andi, thank you for your comments. I, too, think that it is probably the rhird option that comes into place. GreyC

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

Hi Tony, glad you like it. The size is standard for CDVs: 105x65mm, the photo roughly 95x54mm. GreyC

Hi Chris, thank you for your kind words. GreyC

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

Hi Tobias, interesting collection. Thank´s for posting. GreyC

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