Dave Suter

Very nicely done indeed. Am looking forward to Part II, ad infinitum......

I'm an old geezer, so no web site. Might be something I'll do to kill time when (if?) I ever retire. Would need to take a lot better photos than these though. I will eventually post most of it here. (BTW, I'm saving some of the best for last.)

Has a very nice hand-embroidered breast eagle.

The left sleeve has Petty Officer Career & Rank Badge for an Artillerie-Mechanikersmaat (Artillery Mechanic Petty Officer 3rd Class). Below that is a Specialist Badge for an Elektrotechnik Lehrgang II (Electrical Motor Specialist Training Level II).

Here's a Kriegsmarine private purchase pea coat (uberzieher), made of high quality doe skin. The collar tabs indicate the rank of Maat (Petty Officer 3rd Class).

And this is how I know which unit the owner was assigned to. At the inside of the lower-right is this ink stamp. A bit hard to see in the photo, but it reads 'Gepr?ft' over 'W. Rem.-Sch. X.'

Here's the tailor's label.

Detail showing the nice hand-embroidered 'X' on the strap.

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Here's a private purchase Waffenrock for a Kavallerie Unteroffizier (Cavalry Corporal) of the Wehrkreis X Remonteschule (Military Area X Remounting School). Wehrkreis X is Hamburg. The other possibile unit would be a Cavalry Corps headquarters. (See below for further on that.) Tunic came with piped stone-grey trousers.

The uniform came complete with piped stone grey trousers.

Here's a service tunic for a Stabszahlmeister (Paymaster Captain) of the Heer Beamte (Army Officials).

Here's a greatcoat for an Obermaschinist (Engine Room Chief Petty Officer). I got this piece from Jack Angolia. It's pictured in Die Kriegsmarine - Uniforms and Traditions, Volume 3 , page 436.

Hard to see, but the device on the shoulder board is a winged artillery shell.

Well, how about a little Kriesmarine stuff? This tunic is a Weisser Rock neuer Art (New Pattern White Tunic) that was introduced 3 December 1937. It is the second pattern white tunic, the first pattern having a standing collar. It's for a Leutnant der Marineartillerie. (And yes, the picture really sucks... )

This is my only other political tunic - an NSDAP brownshirt for an Ortsgruppe Blockleiter. The collar tabs are the 3rd pattern (1936-1938).

It's 1 Marz 1935 Saar Commemorative. Made of stamped brass, about 1" square. The cut out swastika has a silver metal map with SAAR in raised letters on it attached with two prongs. Two of the swastika arms have 1 MARZ and 1935 in raised letters on them. The back is marked W.REDO SAARLOUIS. Has a safety pin catch soldered on. Sorry I don't have a seperate photo of it - this is the best I can do for now - if I try and make it larger it's too blurry.

I don't have much political stuff. This is my only SA tunic, a wool Dienstrock (Service Tunic). It was never issued, but there is a flap in the lining at the shoulders so that shoulder boards could be added. The arm band was found in the pocket.

Has a very nice early-pattern breast eagle.

Thanks Rich. Some day I've got to find the time to take good 'book quality' photos of this stuff.

This is a private purchase tunic for a Luftwaffe Fliegertruppe Flugzeugf?hrer Feldwebel (Air Force Staff Sergeant Pilot) with the original badges. I don't have a photo of it, but it has a tailor's label indicating the tailor was Georg Henschel from Charlottenburg. The owner's last name was Gosby.

Are the straps the 1944 pattern?

My recollection is that they are - I'm up the hill so can't go down to the bunker and look.

Glad you like the fire police tunic - nice to have something you haven't seen....

A friend gave me this info on where this town is: "This is a VERY small town very close to Krems an der Donau (river Danube) in nowadays Austria. The "b.W." after St. Michael means "bei Wien". Vienna is the next bigger city (some 10-20 km away), Krems is bigger than St. Michael but still small. If you have a good world atlas, it is in there. But look under SANKT MICHAEL, not St. Michael. Saint in English = Sankt in German. Cheers, Frank H."

This guy got to drive the fire truck.

For a Freiwillige Feuerwehr Obermeister (Volunteer Fire Defense Service Obermeister).

Where Hof is located.