GRA

6.Panzergrenadierdivision

1 6.Panzergrenadierdivision / Wehrbereichskommando I

2 Panzergrenadierbrigade16 ”Herzogtum Lauenburg” (1st brigade)

3 Panzerbrigade18 ”Holstein” (3rd brigade, old manufacture)

4 Panzerbrigade18 ”Holstein” (3rd brigade, new manufacture)

Divisions

1 1.Panzerdivision

2 5.Panzerdivision / Wehrbereichskommando IV/5.Panzerdivision

3 6.Panzergrenadierdivision / Wehrbereichskommando I

4 10.Panzerdivision

5 11.Panzergrenadierdivision

6 12.Panzerdivision / Panzerbrigade34

7 13.Panzergrenadierdivision (old version) / Wehrbereichskommando VII/13.Panzergrenadierdivision

8 14.Panzergrenadierdivision / WehrbereichskommandoVIII/14.Panzergrenadierdivision ”Hanse”

9 1.Luftlandedivision / Kommando Spezialkräfte

Some of my Bundeswehr unit patches, all dating from the 1990's to the very early 2000's. Please feel free to add to the thread!

/Jonas

Corps etc

1 Zentrale Militärische Bundeswehrdienststellen

2 WehrbereichskommandoII

3 WehrbereichskommandoVIII

4 Korps u. Territorialkommando Ost

5 Territorialkommando Schleswig-Holstein

6 I.Korps

7 Deutsch-Nederländisches Korps (German part)

8 Eurokorps

this arrived in the post a few mins ago its a mid to late 70s reference book for the bundeswehr uniform and abzeichen only a small booklet but it contains heer, luftwaffe, kreigsmarine and medical. few pictures for you:

Hello Tom!

I have a couple of those too, the earliest dating from the mid-90's and the latest from ~2000. The difference being drawings in the earlier and photos in the later. In the earlier version there's still arm patches of the divisions and some (even by then) disbanded Heimatschutzbrigade, while the later version only shows the remaining brigades of the divisions of the 90's (and the new 13th and 14th divisions). I'll see if I can dig them out from my "Cold War stash"!

/Jonas

Hello David!

This link might be of interest as to the unit: http://web.archive.o.../vinf/rwf-4.htm According to the information in this link, the jacket could be dated 1884 (June) - 1908 (March 31st) (1st Volunteer Battalion, The Royal Welch Fusiliers), but I'm no expert in these matters.

/Jonas

No Idea what his first name was....

...Günther, as older brother Otto was GOC 206. Division.

/Jonas

Having had another look at the picture; the badge on the chest of the right man, isn't that a badge that territorials who volunteered for overseas service in case of war wore? I might be wrong (and please correct me if I am), but I somehow connect this badge with territorials/volunteers, not regulars.

/Jonas

Hello Brian!

Another long shot, but... For the man on the right: The Queen's Own Royal Glasgow Yeomanry?

As far as I know, Glasgow and Lanarkshire are just around the corner from each other, so there is a geographic possibility as well. The regiment was known as The Queen's Own Royal Glasgow and Lower Ward of Lanarkshire Yeomanry until 1914 (according to Patrick Mileham's "The Yeomanry Regiments").

/Jonas

no idea sorry the tank muzzle is very thin metal so i would suppose its possible that it might break off if you can find a picture would be intersting to see

No Tom, I'm sure it was deliberately done, I got the impression that it was something to be somewhat proud of (and besides, if your badge would break, you'd just replace it, I guess).

/Jonas

Hello Tom!

I've seen beret badges for the black Panzertruppe beret with the muzzle of the gun barrel cut off (as in nothing protruding outside of the wreath), do you know why? I'm not sure if even all tankers, or units, do it. Is it some kind of "passed the test" thing, or what?

/Jonas

I love how the blue color surrounds the sleeve patch. I have never seen the waffenfarbe displayed in this manner. Was this a short lived practice?

Paul, to my knowledge they still use the same patches, and they also have a blue beret with a snake badge. As far as I know, this is a doctor-dentist-nurse distinction, combat medics wear the same uniforms as the unit they serve in.

/Jonas

Hello Matt!

I think it is Medaljen för Förtjänster om Sveriges Landstorm i silver: http://www.all-medals.com/ribbon_info.asp?build=&showgroups=A-Z/0/se&visitor={F8C7BFF7-6D26-4689-951F-FB958F34BE9D}&listmode=0&login=&medal={703B8DAE-DE6B-41C3-B01E-A54C5E7D0021} It was awarded for services to the Swedish Territorial Volunteers, as there were (and still exists) a medal instituted in 1922 from the same organisation, this may have been a short-lived medal (1912-1922), but I'm not sure. There should be silver stamps on it, find those and the year it was awarded can be narrowed down.

/Jonas

The next uniform model - m/52 - came with gold-coloured insignia, but I'm fairly certain these m/39 badges survived for some time (the uniform model as such survived being re-made into later models with newer insignia). I have a cavalry branch insignia loitering around somewhere myself. This m/39 pattern (as well as the m/52 pattern) were slightly larger, slimmer and more "old-fashioned" - muskets for the infantry for example - than the later m/60 pattern, which were more bulky in shape.

The number "1" on the epaulets would in this case have been worn by the Svea engineer regiment, numbers survived until the m/60 uniform for the infantry, the cavalry and the artillery (some individual units would have used other badges even before), and well into the 90's for the rest.

/Jonas

Engineers branch, and it is worn with the sword pointing upwards.

/Jonas

Dear Friends ,

If someone can can identify this SWEDISH Box , i will be very happy.

Thanks In Advance .

Avs

Hello avsaribar!

I don't know what exactly was in it, but it was issued during the reign of king Gustaf V (1907-1950).

/Jonas

About the same time were not "Airfix" turning out model

soldiers of a similar size, however unpainted?

Kevin in Deva.

I think they still do, if you mean the 1:32 scale series. It seems, however, that the range is more narrow now, I guess the kids of today needs something like Call of Duty or Battlefield to get their steam up...

/Jonas

I remember those with a square metal base-plate well, wasn't it Britain's who made them? I think there was everything from Napoleonic to WW2 and then some in between. Foreign legionnaires in light blue coats, anyone? Highlanders in kilt for those so inclined, or why not a American Civil War Gatling gun with crew?

/Jonas

I have never come across - in any research - someone with a Swedish name. He must have had a British Mother - perhaps from World War 2 ?

From post #16:

Birth

Name: Olof J A Svard

Mother's Maiden Surname:Callan

Date of Registration:Apr-May-Jun 1950

Registration district:Hammersmith

Inferred County: Greater London, Middlesex

Volume Number: 5c Page Number: 970

Callan is certainly not a Swedish name, but what strikes me is that he uses Swedish spelling in his surname - Svärd - not anglicised into Svard (dropping non-English alphabet letter) or Sword (translated). Wouldn't it be slightly complicated living the whole life in the UK spelling one's surname "Svärd"?

/Jonas

Hi,

I assume this is scandanavian? Another one of these went over ebay, maybe this helps a bit ...

Swedish: "German fighting retreat on the Western front. Separable (probably dismounted, but litterary translated as separable) German guns transported away."

/Jonas

The name sounds Swedish ? Perhaps it was an exchange gift to him - pity Leigh isn't still here - he was Cambridgeshire Const. and could have checked the number.

Hello all!

Olof Svärd is about as Swedish as it gets. He surely has to have had a Swedish father or being born in Sweden (I assume with dual citizenship since he were allowed to join the police). There ought to be some paperwork on this fellow somewhere in the archives!

/Jonas

Hello TS!

In Douglas S. Russell's "Winston Churchill Soldier" (2005) there's a reference to Col. Brabazon, CO of the 4th Hussars. The quotes about Brabazon's "...inability real or affected to pronounce the letter 'R'." are from Churchill's "My Early Life".

/Jonas

Aha , Thanks Jonas I thought he was from Västgöta on account that the Photo was taken in that part of the country

Hello Christer!

No need to blush, Västgöta Regiment, Skaraborg Regiment and the hussars (in all incarnations from the Thirty Years' War forward) have all had companies/squadrons in that area (Vadsbo härad), the Skaraborg Regiment even had two - North and South Vadsbo companies.

That trooper may have originated from Mariestad having had the photo taken there, otherwise Skövde (where the hussars were garrisoned as of Oct 1st 1904) would have been more probable.

/Jonas

This unknown soldier is not as Heavy decorated as GenMaj Cederskiöld but still a interesting photo I think

He is wearing the Dolma a uniform for Cavalery troops (Husar) and belonged to Västgöta Rgt in the West of Sweden

this Rgt was closed down in 1927 so the photo is probably around WW1 .

Christer

Hello Christer!

This trooper wears the uniform of the Life Regiment Hussars, which I can assure you are still alive and kicking to this day! The Västgöta Regiment however was disbanded in 1927 (a former cavalry regiment that lost its horses in, I believe, 1811, serving as infantry during the last century or so of its existence). If the photo dates from around WW1 or later, it'll probably be a conscript, as the professional troopers / NCO's would by then have worn the grey m/1910, the older m/1895's would have been worn by conscripts, sometimes mixed m/1895 top and m/1910 bottom (I've seen a photo from as late as 1934 showing this mix).

/Jonas

Thats a hard one, I have no idea of who he could be Mervyn or the date...I would have thought the caricature is of someone Pre-1877 as they still depict him as the 2nd Dragoons not the Royal Scots Greys, not many clues in the drawing who he might be, and not much to identify him, or from what era, the only colonel of the greys i know is George Calvert Clarke in the 1890s, but i doubt its him.

Here's some suggestions as to possible colonels, but does it have to be a colonel? Couldn't it be another at the time well-known regimental character? A medal is visible, which one?

1839.08.24 Gen. Sir William Keir Grant, KCB, GCH

1852.05.25 Lt-Gen. Archibald Money, CB

1858.08.26 Lt-Gen. Arthur Moyses William (Hill), 2nd Baron Sandys

1860.07.17 Lt-Gen. Sir Alexander Kennedy Clark-Kennedy, KCB, KH

1864.01.31 Gen. Sir John Bloomfield Gough, GCB

1891.09.23 Gen. George Calvert Clarke, CB

/Jonas

One of these?

http://www.dnw.co.uk/medals/resources/medalrolls/militarygeneralservice/

/Jonas