Dave Danner

This is yet another part of a series of links to books digitized and available on Google Books which I have collected. I hope the books will be useful or interesting to you (and ideally both ). This series relates to the Anglo-Boer War. First is a three-volume British official history: History of the War in South Africa, 1899-1902: Volume I (1906) - 10.1 mBHistory of the War in South Africa, 1899-1902: Volume II (1907) - 12.4 mBHistory of the War in South Africa, 1899-1902: Volume III (1908) - 9.3 MbNext are an assortment of British and Imperial unit histories:The Record of a Regiment of the Line: Being a Regimental History of the 1st Battalion Devonshire Regiment during the Boer War (1908) - 226 pages, 9.5 mBWith the Green Howards in South Africa, 1899-1902 (1904) - 398 pages, 3.6 mBThe Colonials in South Africa, 1899-1902, Their Record, Based on the Despatches (1907) - 497 pages, 9.7 mBThe Journal of the City Imperial Volunteers in South Africa (1901) - 502 pages, 2.4 mBThe Record of the Mounted Infantry of the City Imperial Volunteers (1902) - 227 pages, 4.2 mBI believe I previously PM'd Chris Boonzaier some other interesting links, including a German official history, but I can't find the message. If he has them maybe he can add them, or if others can find some other interesting links please add them as well.

This is yet another part of a series of links to books digitized and available on Google Books which I have collected. I hope the books will be useful or interesting to you (and ideally both ). This series of books are unit histories of German Army units. I believe all of the books here are downloadable. All are pre-World War I histories. There are other histories I might have missed, including some from before the Wars of Unification (which may be of interest to students of the Napoleonic era). World War I histories are still generally protected by copyright, so they are not freely available. By the way, the Bavarian State Library has recently joined Google's book digitization project, so more German historical works may soon become available. Gedenkbl?tter des Offizierkorps des 1. Brandenburgischen Dragoner-Regiments Nr. 2: Von der Neuformation 1807 bis 1902 (1902) - 91 pages, 8.6 mBStammliste des Offizer-Korps des Infanterie-Regiments von Horn (3. Rheinisches) Nr. 29, 1813-1901 (1901) - 542 pages, 17.5 mBGeschichte des 2. Rheinischen Husaren-Regiments Nr. 9 (1889) - 302 pages, 20.5 mBGeschichte des Dragoner Regiments K?nig (2. W?rtt.) Nr. 26 (1905) - 412 pages, 7.15 mBGeschichte des K?nigin Elisabeth Garde-Grenadier-Regiments Nr. 3 (1897) - 566 pages, 43.7 mBGeschichte des K?nigin Augusta Garde-Grenadier-Regiments Nr.4 (1901) - 344 pages, 31.3 mBGeschichte des Infanterie-Regiments Graf Barfu? (4. Westf?lischen) Nr.17 (1906) - 311 pages, 21.2 mBGeschichte des 1. Hanseatischen Infanterie-Regiments Nr. 75: Von seiner Gr?ndung im Jahre 1866 bis zum Ende des deutsch-franz?sischen Krieges 1870/71 (1886) - 211 pages, 13.7 mBGeschichte des K?nigl. S?chs. 6. Infanterie-Regiments No.105 und seine Vorgeschichte 1701-1887 (1887) - 603 pages, 24.6 mBGeschichte des 1. Grossherzoglich Hessischen Infanterie-(Leibgarde-) Regiments Nr. 115, 1621-1899 (1899) - 1168 pages, 50.4 mBGeschichte des Infanterie-Leibregiments Gro?herzogin (3. Gro?herzogl. Hessisches Nr.117) und seiner St?mme 1677-1902 (1903) - 408 pages, 43.4 mBGeschichte des Infanterie-Regiments Kaiser Friedrich K?nig von Preu?en (7. w?rttembergisches) Nr. 125 1809-1895 (1895) - 406 pages, 12.8 mBK?niglich Bayerisches 3. Infanterie-Regiment Prinz Carl von Bayern 1698-1900 (1900) - 475 pages, 25.5 mBGeschichte des K?niglich Bayerischen 9 Inf.-Regiments Wrede: Von seinem Ursprung bis zur Gegenwart (1888) - 194 pages, 4.8 mBGeschichte des Garde-Fu?-Artillerie-Regiments, seiner Stammtruppentheile und St?mme (1885) - 299 pages, 34.7 mBGeschichte des K?niglich Preussischen Feld-artillerie-regiments General-feldzeugmeister (2. Brandenburgisches) Nr. 18 und seiner Stammtruppenteile (1898) - 303 pages, 8.8 mBGeschichte der Brandenburg-Preussischen Reiterei: Von den Zeiten des grossen Kurf?rsten bis zur Gegenwart, I. Band (1905) - 412 pages, 17.1 mBGeschichte der Brandenburg-Preussischen Reiterei: Von den Zeiten des grossen Kurf?rsten bis zur Gegenwart, II. Band (1905) - 548 pages, 17.0 mB

This is part of a series of links to books digitized and available on Google Books which I have collected. I hope the books will be useful or interesting to you (and ideally both ). This series of books are biographical information on the noble houses of Germany. All nine volumes appear to be downloadable. Neues Allgemeines Deutsches Adels-Lexicon, Band I ? Aa - Boyve (1859) - 52.5 mBNeues Allgemeines Deutsches Adels-Lexicon, Band II - Bozepolski ? Ebergassing (1860) - 28.0 mBNeues Allgemeines Deutsches Adels-Lexicon, Band III - Eberhard - Graffen (1861) - 27.3 mBNeues Allgemeines Deutsches Adels-Lexicon, Band IV - Graffen ? Kalau v. Kalheim (1863) - 29.6 mBNeues Allgemeines Deutsches Adels-Lexicon, Band V - Kalb - Loewenthal (1864) - 42.6 mBNeues Allgemeines Deutsches Adels-Lexicon, Band VI - Loewenthal ? Osorowski (1865) - 32.0 mBNeues Allgemeines Deutsches Adels-Lexicon, Band VII ? Ossa - Ryssel (1867) - 31.9 mBNeues Allgemeines Deutsches Adels-Lexicon, Band VIII ? Saackhen ? Steinhauer zu Bulgarn (1868) - 35.3 mBNeues Allgemeines Deutsches Adels-Lexicon, Band IX ? Steinhaus - Zwierlein (1870) - 28.4 mB

This is part of a series of links to books digitized and available on Google Books which I have collected. I hope the books will be useful or interesting to you (and ideally both ). Most of the books here are downloadable, but a few can only be read online. All of the books I have identified here, however, are fully available (there are many more books which appear to have been digitized but are not available for either reading or downloading). This series of books are histories of United States Army units in World War I: The American Army in the World War: A Divisional Record of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe (1921) - 307 pages, 4.9 mBThe Fourth Division, Its Services and Achievements in the World War (1920) - 368 pages, 7.5 mBNew England in France, 1917-1919: A History of the Twenty-sixth Division, U.S.A. (1920) - 325 pagesHistory of the Yankee Division (1919) - 283 pages, 6.2 mBThe Story of the Rainbow Division (1919) - 264 pages, 3.58 mBOfficial History of 82nd Division, American Expeditionary Forces, "All American" Division, 1917-1919 (1919) - 310 pages, 8.7 mBThe Official History of the Eighty-Sixth Division (1921) - 319 pages, 15.9 mBHistory of the 89th Division, U.S.A. (1920) - 511 pages, 23.4 mBA History of the 90th Division (1920) - 259 pages, 3.86 mBThe Story of the 91st Division (1919) - 177 pages, 2.5 mBThe Story of the First Gas Regiment (1919) - 326 pages, 6.5 mBSeventy-First New York in the World War (1922) - 522 pages, 13.9 mBHistory of the 126th Infantry in the War with Germany (1920) - 348 pages, 9.81 mBWith the 364th Infantry in America, France, and Belgium (1919) - 264 pages, 6.9 mBThe Three Hundred and First Engineers: A History, 1917-1919 (1920) - 310 pages, 9.9 mB

This is part of a series of links to books digitized and available on Google Books which I have collected. I hope the books will be useful or interesting to you (and ideally both ). Many of the books here are downloadable, but many can only be read online. All of the books I have identified here, however, are fully available (there are many more books which appear to have been digitized but are not available for either reading or downloading). This series of books are military rank and seniority lists and their civilian equivalents, the state handbook. Handbuch ?ber den preussischen Staat (1874) - This is a monumental resource for Imperial German information for that period. Like military ranklists, this includes decorations. Also, since this covers all state agencies, it includes the Kriegsministerium so it has some military use as well. But it also covers the officials of the court, the government ministries and agencies and the governments of the provinces. And it has an index of names. There are some pages badly scanned, though. For this book, the full 1100+ pages are readable online, but for some reason, when you download the PDF, it only downloads to page 372.Vollst?ndige Dienstaltersliste (Anciennet?tsliste) der Offiziere der K?niglich Preussischen Armee (1888) - 1888 Seniority list for the Prussian Army; 22.0 mBVollst?ndige Dienstaltersliste (Anciennet?tsliste) der Offiziere der K?niglich Preussischen Armee (1891) - 1891 Seniority list for the Prussian Army; 23.7 mBVollst?ndige Dienstaltersliste (Anciennet?tsliste) der Offiziere der K?niglich Preussischen Armee und des XIII (K?nigl. W?rttemb.) Armeekorps (1897) - 1897 Seniority list for the Prussian Army; 27.3 mBMecklenburg-Schwerinsches Staatshandbuch (1897) - 39.5 mB; As with the Prussian handbook, covers court, government and military officials. Includes yet another system of abbreviations for orders and medals Mecklenburg-Schwerinsches Staatshandbuch (1878) - 24.5 mB; Same as above, but since this edition is closer to the Franco-Prussian and Russo-Turkish Wars, a more interesting selection of Iron Crosses, Mecklenburg-Schwerin Military Merit Crosses and the like.Staatshandbuch f?r das K?nigreich Sachsen 1877 (1877) - The Saxon version, also pretty close to the wars of unification; only readable online.Militaer-Handbuch des Koenigreichs Wuerttemberg, 1889 (1889) - 414 pages, 9.87 mB; An actual ranklist, with awards, assignments and everything. Hof und Staatshandbuch des K?nigreichs W?rttemberg 1902 (1902) - Here and below are W?rttemberg version of the state handbook. Also, these are the only 20th century ones I found so many of these guys were likely W?rttemberg officials up to the First World War.Hof und Staatshandbuch des K?nigreichs W?rttemberg 1905 (1905)Hof und Staatshandbuch des K?nigreichs W?rttemberg 1906 (1906) Hof und Staatshandbuch des K?nigreichs W?rttemberg 1907, 2. Teil (1907)Hof und Staatshandbuch des K?nigreichs W?rttemberg 1908 (1908)Stamm- und Rang-liste des Kurf?rstlich Hessischen Armee-corps vom 16ten Jahrhundert bis 1866 (1866) - 225 pages, 7.5 mB; Electoral Hesse, absorbed by Prussia after the Austro-Prussian War. This is a historical Stammliste of the Kurhessische units, but also a ranklist as of 1866 of these units.Kleines Staatshandbuch des Reichs und der Einzelstaaten (1883) - 8.1 mB; Covers the leadership of the smaller states in less detail than the other handbooks.There are quite a few other ranklists that Google appears to have digitized, but are not available online or to be downloaded, but this is quite a bonanza of free books so I'm not complaining too much.

There was also a few weeks ago a very nice group of medals, ribbon bars (wartime and postwar) and documents for a Saxe-Coburg enlisted soldier that were all sold separately. As near as I can tell from tracking the auctions, none of the items went to the same buyers, so that group is destroyed.

Below is the description of the medal from the AFP Awards and Decorations Handbook, Second Edition 1997, as set forth on the web site of the Office of the Adjutant General of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. It appears that whoever wrote the Wikipedia entry on Philippine medals copied the information from this source, without bothering to give credit or provide a link, in defiance of both common courtesy and Wikipedia policy on sourcing.

It fills the niche in the Philippine ODM roughly at the level of the Bronze Star Medal.

The Combat Lifesaver program is a program instituted by the Army in the early 1990s and by the Marine Corps sometime later. Non-medical soldiers and Marines go through a course run by medics. They are trained in more advanced first aid skills than you get in basic training, the most important of which are administering IVs and performing CPR. A Combat Lifesaver is not a medic. He or she is first and foremost responsible for his or her primary mission, and only provides medical assistance if the mission allows. For a corpsman or medic, by contrast, providing that medical assistance is the mission. When I first was certified as a Combat Lifesaver, I had to put an IV in a fellow 2nd lieutenant's arm. He turned out to be quite the bleeder.

Last page: And a later addendum, with some enlisted awards:

Next page:

Certainly not a complete list, but a nice peek into the "real-time" awards process:

The first post-war census was conducted beginning 8 October 1919. I don't have the results of that census. There are some websites that have population statistics for states of the Weimar Republic at various times in the 1920s. However, there are certain caveats that must be kept in mind: Most of the Thuringian states were combined into a single state - Freistaat Th?ringen - on 1 May 1920. However, the city and Landkreis of Coburg, a part of the former Duchy of Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha, was joined with the Freistaat Bayern on 1 July 1920, where it remains today (it thus appears to be a myth that the British royal family acted to join Coburg with Bavaria in the U.S. occupation zone in 1944-45 to keep the Windsor's ancestral homeland from falling into Soviet hands). Kreis Pyrmont was separated from the Freistaat and former Principality of Waldeck on 30 November 1921 and joined with the Provinz Hannover. On 1 May 1929, the rest of Freistaat Waldeck was absorbed by the Provinz Hessen-Nassau. Both provinces were part of the Freistaat Preu?en. Most importantly, however, the Reichsland Elsa?-Lothringen was lost to France, as well as Eupen and Malmedy to Belgium, the Memelgebiet to Lithuania, the Hluč?n Region (Hultschiner L?ndchen) to Czechoslovakia, the majority of Provinz Posen and Provinz Westpreu?en and smaller chunks of Provinz Ostpreu?en and Provinz Schlesien to Poland, and Nordschleswig to Denmark. Danzig became the Freie Stadt Danzig. This resulted in large displacements of population, which will skewer any "before and after" statistics.

The Virtuti Militari Silver Merit Cross, judging by its appearance, is a current republic version. Since none have actually been issued, the ones you see on the market are basically reproductions for the collector market. The regimental badge is for the 66th Kashubian Infantry Regiment. As Kevin notes, these are heavily faked.

Hell, you think that's a mess, look at it before Napoleon brought down the Holy Roman Empire: http://www.pantel-web.de/bw_mirror/maps/d1789.jpg Or even further back, during the reign of Emperor Charles V: http://www.pantel-web.de/bw_mirror/maps/d1547.jpg Another good selection of maps: http://www.pantel-web.de/bw_mirror/maps/maps.htm

Great work!! Very informative.

It is a multi-volume set. I only have Volume II, which lists all recipients of the order and medals from the Napoleonic era through WW1. Volume III, which came out in 2003, apparently has citations, but I don't know where to find it.

The Karl-Friedrich Military Merit Medal? Named on the reverse? Unfortunately, I left the Zelosko book with all the recipients in my office. Daniel might have a copy though. As for Rick's dilemma, perhaps you could let him know, since his petty little spat apparently keeps him from reading my posts or having the courtesy to respond when I try to help him, that on the type used in the Franco-Prussian War, the obverse read FUR BADENS EHRE, without an Umlaut. On the World War I type (actually introduced in 1915, so early awards were the old type), it reads F?R BADENS EHRE, with the Umlaut. Both types are illustrated here: http://home.att.net/~david.danner/militaria/baden.htm Before 1870, there were various engraver/maker marks to indicate which type.

Maps? Do you mean something specific relating to the war, or the geography of the Hessian states in general? http://www.ieg-maps.uni-mainz.de/map1-1.htm

I was in the archives in Meiningen a month or so ago, but I didn't have a chance to look around too much. Rick is wrong, by the way - Thuringia is much more beautiful in the winter than the summer, especially after a snowfall. It is the home of the Christmas tree, after all.

Another "in wear" shot:

The photo credit cites Campion, so was that Goering's badge in the book?

It is referred to as "Polish" primarily because it is made in Poland and presented by a Polish command, but technically it is a multinational award, in the same category as UN and NATO awards, albeit unofficially so. It is in English because that is the working language of the division, whose troops' native languages include Polish, English, Spanish, Danish, Armenian, Serbo-Croatian, Ukrainian, Slovak, Romanian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Mongolian and Kazakh.