ErwinZ

I'm almost done scanning the whole lot. I think Ill post the whole document soon. I tried to puzzle it out myself but I guess native speakers will figure it out more quickly.

I wish I could translate it

Thanks Andy. Does not makes sense thus far. But it's a small piece of the big puzzle so who knows.

I'm looking for a Hauptman Kienast from above mentioned unit. However I do not know such unit. Photo is possible taken near Bullecourt at 31.7.18.

Some potential candidates:

(sächs.) Minenwerfer-Kompanie Nr. 253
leichte Minenwerfer-Abteilung 253 and 253b
leichte Minenwerfer-Züge 253

True for photo's. I was more pointing out to the cards posted in this topic. The amount of fakes on eBay is just staggering, one of the reasons I'm not buying printed photo's anymore.

53 minutes ago, Chris Boonzaier said:

I think nowdays you can just scan an original and go down to a drugstore and have a print in less than a minute... or a hobby photographer can have it on old paper in his basement lab

Yes but then you still need to age it. All that trouble won't justify 20 or 30 euro, unless they don't want to make a profit

Der Stab 96. R.J.Br. im Granattrichter 29.5.18. The same officers of the first photo in this thread are also on this photo. 

So we have a Leutnant of RIR 221 who served the 96. RJB staff from at least 15.5.18. to 16.8.18, who was awarded an Hessian Kriegerehrenzeichen. Someone should be able to identify him right?

2 hours ago, arb said:

What sources did you use to find his command of RIR 15 and as Komdt of Nordeney??

Andy (arb)

 

I found it on the axis forum: https://forum.axishistory.com//viewtopic.php?t=193741

Doesn't mention sources tho.

On a side note. The 2 von Gottbergs mentioned in that thread are brothers.

On 29/09/2017 at 21:44, arb said:

Oberst Gottberg am 17.8.18 gefallen

that colonel was Lorenz von Gottberg  (05.01.1862-17.08.1918)  Here are his wartime commands as far as I can determine them

17.08.18     in franz. Flandern gef.

22.06.18-17.08.18     Kom. d. 96. Res. Inf. Brig.

13.01.17-22.06.18     ??

21.05.15-13.01.17     Kom. d. Inf. R. 98

01.10.14-05.04.15     Kom. d. Inf. R. 55

04.05.12-01.10.14     Kom. d. III./Inf. R. 55  (Detmold)

His promotions:  Oberst  18-10-17  Oberstlt.  24-12-14  Major  17-09-09

 

Andy

Hi Andy, what is your source of that list? I've been looking into him a bit and I came across the following. 

1.8.1914 - 1.10.1914 Kdr III./ IR 55
21.9.1914 - 9.11.1914 Fhr IR 16
9.11.(1.10.)1914 - 5.4.1915 Kdr IR 55
27.5.1915 - 7.1.1917 Kdr IR 98
8.2.1917 - 2.8.1917 Kdr RIR 15
2.8.1917 - 1918 Kdt von Norderney
22.6.1918 - 17.8.1918g. Kdr 96. RIB

It's pretty close but the dates differ. 

Thanks for the info. Not familiar with WW1 medals, see for yourself

Latest scan from my collection. Staff of the 96. R.J.Br. taken on 15.5.18. 

If anybody has additional info please feel free to write it down.

I bought an 'EREL' cap for my photography trips. I'm no collector but I can assure those caps are unmistakably reproductions. For instance the label thingy is woven into the cap. So far what I have seen that company is very open to the fact they deal in reproductions. In my opinion their price is fair. Any custom made cap with those materials will also set you back that amount.

Before the 'EREL' I tried an 'el cheapo' unbranded version of the same model. The size wasn't correct, the visor was not attached in the middle, the wool was of synthetic quality and the seems were average. It ended up in the garbage bin.

So yeah my conclusion is that the 'EREL' caps are reenact quality. Any buyer thinking he bought an original should really scratch behind his own ears in this case.

From my own collection. An unknown unit in France in 1918.

Mattyboy, I hope you don't mind me making this a collection thread?

From my own collection titled; 'Gertrud und ich in kastel'. I wish I knew the soldiers name. 

Very nice!

I'm kinda new to WW1 research so I have no idea what an Austrian is doing there. But maybe this deserves it's own topic, apart from the translation bit.

So the right soldier could be an Austrian officer from IR59 accompanying the Major? 

9 hours ago, Dave Danner said:

Josef (4.8.1875-10.4.1943) was promoted to Major on 1.1.18, so he seems to be the likely candidate.  He was an Oberst (1.6.24) in the Bundesheer and retired as a Titular-Generalmajor on 23.4.28 (is "Tit." the Austrian equivalent to "Char."?).

Yes that's the guy we are looking for. Just did a search on him and this match came up from http://www.rainerregiment.at/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=106&Itemid=118

Yes sorry. It is '221'. The one is a bit blurry. 

Any idea who the Major is?

14 hours ago, The Prussian said:

Erwin, could you please show the entire photo? I´d like to see the austrian Major. Thanks!

Not the entire photo, but Ill post the bit what is important. I have actually 2 photo's of the same officer group but in complete different setting. Both will be 'published' some time though. 

The left guy has '22' on his boards. The Oberst in the middle as said before has '55' on his boards. The right guy most likely has a 2 digit number starting with a '5'.

So yes. If the captions are correct, he fell the day after the photo's were taken. 

Thanks so far, already more information that I could hoped for.

Thank you very much! Then this would be Oberst Gottberg. Funny thing is that there's still number 55 on his shoulder boards. 

Hi, would like some confirmation with these ones. Esp. with the name on the last one; "Oberstleutnant Gottberg zum 17.8.18 gefallen" ?

Thanks in advance.

Hello all. I used this forum for research for quite a while now. Maybe time to show what I do with that gathered info. I prefer to colour photo's from my own collection but I also do photo's from public collections.