Dave Danner

#2 "Assistanzarzt b. ____. Chirurgie 26, Feld- u. Korpsarzt XXVI R.K."

Hi again everyone. Here is yet another group of squiggles I need a little help on. Thanks in advance. #1 The bottom part I wasn't sure about: "Inspektion der Technischen Institutes der Art. A.V 2" ?

Many many thanks again. I think I'll start a new thread with the last group of squiggles. Hopefully with these all of the SEK3Xs will be done.

EKs to Bavarians are listed in the Bavarian MVB until about March 1917, when the number of awards got to be too much (the July 1916-December 1916 volume is the thickest book I have ever seen).

Same low relief as your first one, but better toning (except the Aztec chick kinda looks like she's wearing blackface):

Methinks they are a bit confused. The Kreuz f?r Auszeichnung im Kriege "F?r Tapferkeit" was only awarded to a handful of generals and royals, but that was on a ribbon. The regular folk got the Kreuz f?r Auszeichnung im Kriege "Tapfer und Treu". All of the Kreuze I. Klasse said "F?r Tapferkeit", though. Still somewhat rare - less than 420 awards - but not that rare.

In July 1915, elements of LGR 100 were transferred to form part of IR 192. Individual soldiers also moved among units. For easy reference, these are all the Saxon infantry regiments: Kgl. S?chs. 1. (Leib-)Grenadier-Regiment Nr. 100 Kgl. S?chs. 2. Grenadier-Regiment Kaiser Wilhelm, K?nig von Preu?en Nr. 101 Kgl. S?chs. 3. Infanterie-Regiment K?nig Ludwig III von Bayern Nr. 102 Kgl. S?chs. 4. Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 103 Kgl. S?chs. 5. Infanterie-Regiment Kronprinz Nr. 104 Kgl. S?chs. 6. Infanterie-Regiment K?nig Wilhelm II. von W?rttemberg Nr. 105 Kgl. S?chs. 7. Infanterie-Regiment K?nig Georg Nr. 106 Kgl. S?chs. 8. Infanterie-Regiment Prinz Johann Georg Nr. 107 Kgl. S?chs. Sch?tzen (F?silier)-Regiment Prinz Georg Nr. 108 Kgl. S?chs. 9. Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 133 Kgl. S?chs. 10. Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 134 Kgl. S?chs. 11. Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 139 Kgl. S?chs. 12. Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 177 Kgl. S?chs. 13. Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 178 Kgl. S?chs. 14. Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 179 Kgl. S?chs. 15. Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 181 Kgl. S?chs. 16. Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182 Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 183 Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 192? Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 351 III./Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 354 Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 391 Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 392 Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 415 Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 416 Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 431 Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 472 Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 473 Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 474 Grenadier-Reserve-Regiment Nr. 100 Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 101 Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 102 Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 103 Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 104 Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 106 Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 107 Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 133 Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 241 Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 242 Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 243 Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 244 Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 245 Ersatz-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 23 Ersatz-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 24 Ersatz-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 32 Ersatz-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 40 Grenadier-Landwehr-Regiment Nr. 100 Landwehr-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 101 Landwehr-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 102 Landwehr-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 103 Landwehr-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 104 Landwehr-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 105 Landwehr-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 106 Landwehr-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 107 Landwehr-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 133 Landwehr-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 350 Landwehr-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 388 Landwehr-Ersatz-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 5 (mostly became LIR 350) Landwehr-Ersatz-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 6 (became IR 351) Landsturm-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 19

Division Franke or Division Francke? Division Francke was an ad hoc Saxon division formed in July 1916 which fought in the Somme region until September 1916. It was formed around the 63. Infanterie-Brigade, commanded by Generalmajor Franz Francke, the commander of IR 182 in 1914, and included units drawn from the 23. Infanterie-Division and the 32. Infanterie-Division. It was originally formed around LGR 100, IR 102, IR 103, and J?g.Btl.12. There is a three-page history of the division's combat in the Somme in Band 3 of "Sachsen in grosser Zeit". Some more organizational information: http://www.1914-18.info/erster-weltkrieg.p...ivision-Francke Francke took command of the 212.?(Kgl. S?chs.) Infanterie-Division in September 1916 and later commanded the 23. (Kgl. S?chs.) Reserve-Division. He died on 2 January 1925. He had received the Knight's Cross of the Military Order of St. Henry in 1914 as commander of IR 182 and received the Commander's Cross 2nd Class in October 1916 for his leadership of Division Francke.

Note that the Infantry volume which has been published is only Band I of what presumably will be several. It only covers infantry regiments (pre-war and wartime-raised, including Bavarian). It does not cover RIRs, LIRs, EIRs, Brig.Ers.Btl., etc., which presumably will be in subsequent volumes. Still, it is a wealth of information and only whets one's appetite for more volumes to come.

For World War I: MoH - 96 (90 to soldiers and 6 to Marines) DSC - 6,430 according to the Army; 6,309 according to another source Foreign recipients: WW1 DSC - 154 Navy Cross - 100 WW2 DSC - 258 Navy Cross - 19 I don't think anyone knows how many Silver Stars or other awards below the DSM went to foreign recipients.

The rolls will be published. They are about 99% complete, at least for swords awards. I only have to scan a few more hard-to-read entries and get the help of the community here to figure them out. Then I have to finish the non-swords awards and the awards with the Eichenbruch "1914/15".

Both Schwarzburg principalities' Honor Cross with Swords are 99% done. I also have the rolls for the Honor Cross without swords from 1909-1918, including those with the Oak Brooch 1914/15, but one page is missing from the 1st Class with Crown section.

The Stellenbesetzung has 4 volumes. Wegner is also a co-author of another series of books: Deutschlands Heere bis 1918, which provides a lot of information on regiments, albeit only regular ones.

Wegner is worth having if you are into German military historical research, but it is also 4 volumes. Volume 1 covers higher commands from the general staff down to all the divisions, as well as the Reichswehr. Volume 2 covers the regular infantry regiments. Volume 3 covers the other regular regiments. Volume 4 is an index. I think the volumes are available from Helion Books in the UK.

Friedrich Woldemar Franz Graf von Pfeil und Klein-Ellguth commanded the 27. Infanterie-Division, not the 26. Infanterie-Division. He commanded it from 25 April 1912 until 14 June 1916. He was replaced by Otto von Moser, who commanded the division until 11 March 1917. He was succeeded by Heinrich von Maur, who commanded the division until war's end. Wilhelm Herzog von Urach, Graf von W?rttemberg commanded the 26. Infanterie-Division until 5 January 1917 and again from 3 November 1917 until war's end. Eberhard von Hofacker commanded from January to November 1917. Theodor Freiherr von Watter commanded the XIII. Armeekorps from 10 March 1915 until the end of the war. The Cron citations in the Wikipedia entry relate to the organization of the division, not its commanders. G?nter Wegner's Stellenbesetzung der deutschen Heere 1815-1939, also in the source list, would have the commanders. By the way, I wrote the Wikipedia entry for the division (and almost all the other WW1 German division articles), but someone else later added the reference to the Duke of Urach. I generally did not include unit commanders in the articles as it would have been too time-consuming and most names relatively obscure, especially for regular division who commanders stretch back into the 19th century.

1893:

Looking more closely at the numbers at the bottom, I think this is the 2002-2004 coat of arms. That coat of arms, as here, had the date "1348", which corresponds on the Arabic calendar to 1929, the year Nadir Shah came to the throne. This was also the date on the royal coat of arms, which lacked the shahada and "Allah akbar" at the top. The current coat of arms has the date "1298", which is 1919 on the Persian calendar. This commemorates what Afghans celebrate as Independence Day - August 19, 1919, when the Treaty of Rawalpindi was signed.

Clockwise from the 12 o'clock position: jihad = jihad muqawamat = resistance azadi = freedom sulh - peace The coat of arms on the obverse is that of the current state, adopted I believe in 2004.

For the brigade/Arko, the only name listed in the Stellenbesetzung is "Oberst Reuss"; no first name and no dates. FAR 111 was a wartime unit so it's not in the Stellenbesetzung. I think FAR 111 was Grand Ducal Hessian, so there might be information in "Die Hessen im Weltkrieg", but I don't have a copy of that book.

That picture is of Maximilian Ritter von H?hn http://home.att.net/~ordersandmedals/MMJO/Hoehn.htm

Thanks for the help. I didn't think Stra?enbau because I was pretty sure the 4th letter was an "e". You inspired me to look into my dictionary and I think it might be Streckenbau. Does that make sense?

And #6. "b. s?chs. O.H.L., Fernspr. ____. Zug 1151"

#5. Kommandant d. something.

#4. "Eisenbahn Reg. 3, _______ baukol. 4"

#3. Looks like "Assistanzarzt b. be_a_. Chirurgie 26, Feld- u. Korpsarzt XXVI R.K."