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That is strange, but it wouldn't be the first time a military recorded something incorrectly. It's also hard to tell what the original message was considering much of the original card is lost to time. They could have been discussing the possibility of him becoming a lieutenant or perhaps it was just recorded incorrectly in the books.

I was able to clean up the back of the card a little. It shows shlodder being referred to as a Lieutenant in 1917.

Good morning gentlemen, I was lucky enough to have come across a nice photo postcard of an unteroffizier from the reserve garde pioneer regiments flammenwerferzug and just wanted to share. It looks like it was at one point cut down to fit a picture frame, it unfortunately is missing alot of information but does feature a nice shot of the skull on the left cuff and is addressed directly to the flame thrower unit. As always comments and opinions are welcome! Many Thanks, Will

Outstanding!

That would make perfect sense honestly, this may be a bit of a stretch but to me it makes even more sense seeing as how this was an Irish regiment and to my knowledge most were not as well off as their English counterparts. If this is correct then this would also make it a fairly early example of something coming from the Aldershot depot. Your information is always appreciated, we spoke previously about a dress uniform from the North Staffordshire Regiment and you were equally helpful there as well!

What would the A signify then? It doesn't appear to be specific to a tailor seeing as how his trousers have the mark but are not from the same tailor. Is it possibly some kind of mark from a depot showing the tunic was turned in and reworked? This could also explain the different cuff ranks. A lieutenant was killed and the tunic was sent through and reissued to a captain who added the proper rank insignia? I'm just spitballing some ideas.

Unfortunately I am away from my collection but I can when I get back to it again and can show more details of the cuffs. I will have to check the other cuff for evidence of service stripes as well.

Good evening gentlemen, I acquired this tunic some time ago and wanted to share it here and also ask for some assistance. A tunic belonging to a Lüert of the 2nd eskadron GDC if is in pretty good shape minus the removed shoulder boards and has 3 loops for a ribbon/ medal bar. Would anyone have any resources/ information on this man or some ideas for a suitable ribbon/ medal bar? As always thoughts and opinions are welcome. Will

My apologies I forgot to post the photo of the stamp which is identical to yours just with a 1916 date.

Does anyone know how to identify the proper collar insignia for this period tunic? I have seen a few different examples but am unsure of what would be the proper style.

Good evening gentlemen, I recently acquired a small group of uniforms off of Facebook of all places and this one was amongst them, I am not the most knowledgeable but I have what appears to be a well tailored uniform for a captain from the Royal Inniskilling Fusilier regiment, it has a stamp in the left shoulder which dates it too 1916, and appears to have at one point had its proper insignia pinned into the collar and perhaps some insignia sewn to the left cuff? It also had a leather tab sewn inside of the left breast of the tunic which I'm unsure of its purpose. Any thoughts and opinions would be appreciated! Many thanks, Will More photos

I'll gladly take you up on some of those items! Also I dug the old boards out of the trash and I do think these were the originals, theres just one issue. They are completely drowned in gold paint to a point that I originally thought that they were 100% rubber but peeling some weird backing off I think they are period boards.

I took a few more detailed photos before I sent this off to get the collar repaired, I think I will have to stripe off all of the gold braiding. It doesn't look like any of it is original to the uniform.

They were all one shaped piece, definitely not anything that belonged on the uniform and I'm pretty sure I threw them and the black pads away already.

Unfortunately the shoulder boards that were on it are Styrofoam so I do not believe those would be period correct haha