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Whoever he was, same person was just over the König FA III's shoulder. Not to be totally off topic, it's FA III's FlüAdj v Meister third row back and v Eulitz nehind the Kronprinz. You can make out the Sachsen Adj collar tabs.

Of course! In GreyC's post, both show another Adj RM Fritz v Zobeltitz

Below is v Zobeltitz again, 2L. 1L shows some resemblance to Mülder v Mülnheim - he wore Garde cuffs often like in the second pic Glenn posted.

I believe this last man Obst [Johann] Maximilian [Carl] Freiherr v u z Bodman, a FlüAdj of Ludwig III towards the latter part of the war. he served with bayr 3 FAR and as Mj with bayr 9 FAR. Castell and him looked alike and it can be tricky from afar. The second pic belonged to "HK" would like to credit him and ask him for permission to use.

In the Alamy group pic with Ludwig III, third man from right with hands on shoulders of little boy was Walther v Walderstötten.

the other three of the four men were: (1) Generalstabsarzt Ritter v Seydel, (3) Nagel zu Aichberg and (4) Walther v Walderstötten and between (3) and (4) was Oberstallsmeister v Leonrod.

Elwyn

You can find all three listed as Obst in the 1918 DAL.

Hans Otto 27.01.16 M

Hermann Heinrich Achaz 06.06.16

Hasso Otto 27.01.17 C

To fill in the blanks for Hans Otto, he was

Stab IR 150 before the War

LIR 18 08.14

RIR 233 01.02.15 - 11.01.17

78 Res Inf Brig 26.08.17 - 08.01.18

Elwyn

Mj 15.01.02

ObstLt zD 22.03.06

Char als Obst zD 24.09.09

Char als GenMj 23.07.17

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Elwyn

Hi Andreas,

The first man looks like Flügeladjutant Gustav v Neumann-Cosel

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Elwyn

 Hi Schießplatzmeister,

Would you be able to show us some more Ritter v Hitzler?

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Elwyn

 Very nice. 

#75 was Ludwig Ritter v Radlmeier MMJO and later WM Pz GenLt.

#117 was later GenMj Karl v Malaisé

#180 was later WM GenLt Paul Winter

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Elwyn

The three Grades of Type II Klasse III, left to right:

Grade 1: Blossom Band

Grade 2: Meander Band

Grade 3: Serrate Band

Mj Wilhelm Siegert was a winner of Type I Klasse III Grade 3

Posts 19 and 20 should be Type I Klasse IV (just a single Grade exists)

It's completely smooth on the edges and it is much bigger than Klasse V

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Freiherr

No expert on uniform.... I have never seen a picture of him so would not be able to tell if the tunic would fit him. But you would think he had ordensspange and loops for some basic decorations. None for an ObstAF? Hard to believe.

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Elwyn

Father and son

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Ewlyn

It's ObstLt Wilhelm v Thadden. 

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Elwyn

Soup with pate would seem strange for today. Other than that, looks like trout mousse with tomato sauce, chicken pot pie, beef and grouse with cream sauce. I hope they were small plates. Now the wine list to go with it would be interesting

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Elwyn

Yes, RA2mBr

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Elwyn

Ludwig Karl Joachim v Schwerin was ObstLt 12.09.02 E and Kmdr d Kürassier Rgt Kaiser Nikolaus I v Rußland (Brandenburgisches) Nr 6 in 1903. I am not familiar with Großfürst Alexei Alexandrovitch's coat of arms but his younger brother Großfürst Paul Alexandrovitch was à la suite KR6 10.09.72 and Chef d Rgt 19.07.88.

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Elwyn

It's Friedrich v Quast.

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Elwyn

Bastian was later KM Admiral Max Bastian

v Ahlfen was later GenMj Hans v Ahlfen

v Falkenhorst was later GenObst Nikolaus v Falkenhorst

Karmann was later Gen d Inf Friedrich Karmann

v Uckermann was later GenLt Horst FrHr v Uckermann

Mummert was later GenMj Werner Mummert

Carp was later GenLt Georg Carp

Rm Merz was later GenMj Georg Merz (he was rare!!!)

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Elwyn

He was definitely not Hierl.

Since his Gau insignia most clearly read Gau XVIII and he was not Hermann Wagner, I put my money on GAF August Oswald.

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Elwyn

What Glenn was referring to and one more.

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Elwyn

Two more, Andreas

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Elwyn

I am no expert... but would it be cheaper to do a high resolution E-book? Everyone signs up and we can figure out when it is economically feasible and legally feasible? Certainly saves on shipping cost which is such a joke with all these heavy hard cover stuff from Germany shipped to the US and we are forced to pay for that bond paper and binding which will fall apart if you flip through them enough anyway. Just like a 1870 Rangliste. Ironically, I had more than one email with Neal O'Connor (or was it telephone!) as he was sitting there taking checks for his other volumes and complaining that his Vol 1 was way too over-priced on Ebay.

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Freiherr

I second that. I will pay that range for a color reprint.

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Freiherr

Awesome, thank you Nick

Thank you all.

The one remainig bit of mystery... this steckkreuz. Almost looks like a Hochzeit Erinnerungszeichen. Nicolas's maternal Grandparents Christian IX and Luise's 1892 Golden Weddinng medal was a ribbon decoration though. And it had the cypher C interwined with L. The Baden Wedding Anniversary was on the other hand a steckkreuz.

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Elwyn