Mike Dwyer

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I'm sure this writing is too horrible to read.....

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I've managed to scan the rest of the cards, so I'll post them all now.

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That would be Generaloberveterinär Richard Kaden. The then Oberstabsveterinär Kaden's claim to fame was the design of a veterinary saddle bag introduced into the Prussian Army in 1912!

Regards

Glenn

Thanks, Glenn, for the explanation and information!

Rick,

I'm not familiar with the title Roßarzt what type of doctor is that?

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Thanks, Rick! I really appreciate the insight.

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I'm having to do this a little bit of time between working on something else, so it may take me a couple of days to get all of the cards on here.

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Somehow, I don't remember exactly, I ended up with several German army calling cards, and one civilain one. I thought, as I have time, I'd post them. Someone might have some interest. Some of them have writing on the back, which I cannot read, others are blank. I'm not sure this is the correct place to post these, but I didn't really see anything else that fit.

Here's the first one:

I just ordered mine, Joe....looking forward to receiving it.

Here's a colorized postcard of a much younger Crown Prince Wilhelm wearing an earlier uniform of the same regiment.

...who would surely have been employed in the occupied territory AS a railwayman...

Rick,

I'm probably wrong, but here's a thought...all of the railway units listed in the 1914 list of the Prussian army are Prussian, there are none from the other states, so if the railway guy was activated into military service, wouldn't he be wearing a Prussian helmet, not a Baden one? I realize the Grand Duchy of Baden was a part of the Kingdom of Prussia, but I would think they would have to have their own railway unit for a railway man to be wearing a Baden helmet. I'm looking at this from the point of view that it reinforces your idea that it is NOT the railway man you found, but more likely the policeman.

Rick,

Yes, Archduke Otto, Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary, is still alive. He fell and was injured at his home in Bavaria not long ago, but a friend of mine who is a friend of the family said he's been recovering very well.

Making a wild guess here, since Komtur posted that beautiful collar of the Hohenzollern House Order, is that special emblem representing that center piece of the collar enamelled in blue with the royal scepter on it, thus indicating the wearer had the grand collar of the order?

Stunning! I would love to see those in person.

That sure looks like beamten insignia to me.

I tried "sharpen focus" and got what looks like lighter piping around four sides (wouldn't it be three?)--

is this just an accident of the "tweaking" and the patch should still be solid, probably white?

Rick,

I tried that on my computer and thought I could see light piping too, but I didn't mention it because I wasn't really sure if I could trust my eyes! Is it possible that it's just where the panel is stitched onto the cuff? If not, if it is piping, could that mean it's either Regiment 162 or 172 since they had yellow piping on their white panels. But doesn't yellow show up darker on the old photographs? I thought I remembered you mentioning that sometime in the past. Also, you're correct, the piping would only be on the top, bottom, and rear edges, not on the front edge (I just looked at some actual uniform cuffs on the Kaiser's Bunker website).

I just went and looked at Kaiser's Bunker again. There's a cuff on there that has a solid blue panel, but if you look closely it appears around the edges just like it has piping. I think it's the stitching. I'm guessing a white or yellow one would have that appearance too.

http://www.kaisersbunker.com/gtp/gtp01b.htm

Rick,

Füsilier-Regiment Kaiser Franz Josef von Österreich, König von Ungarn (4. Württembergisches) Nr.122 had red Brandenburg cuffs with a red panel trimmed in blue, so that doesn't work with this guy.

I can't read the numbers very clearly, but I looked through my materials and I find only the following regiments had a light colored panel, either white or yellow, on their Brandenburg cuffs:

Infanterie-Regiment Kaiser Wilhelm (2. Großherzoglich Hessisches) Nr.116 (WHITE)

Infanterie-Regiment Prinz Carl (4. Großherzoglich Hessisches) Nr.118 (YELLOW)

5. Niederschlesisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr.154 (WHITE)

3. Schlesisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr.156 (WHITE)

7. Lothringisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr.158 (WHITE)

9. Rheinisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr.160 (WHITE)

Infanterie-Regiment Hessen-Homburg Nr.166 (WHITE)

There are some other regiments that have light colored panels too, but they have piping around the panel and there doesn't appear to be any on the panel on this man's cuff. I'll list them anyway just in case:

5. Westpreußisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr.148 (WHITE PIPED BLUE)

1. Ermländisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr.150 (YELLOW PIPED BLUE)

Deutsch Ordens-Infanterie-Regiment (1. Elsässisches) Nr.152 (WHITE PIPED BLUE)

Infanterie-Regiment Lübeck (3. Hanseatisches) Nr.162 (WHITE PIPED YELLOW)

4. Hannoversches Infanterie-Regiment Nr.164 (WHITE PIPED BLUE)

2. Ober-elsässiches Infanterie-Regiment Nr.171 (WHITE PIPED BLUE)

9. Lothringisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr.173 (WHITE PIPED YELLOW)

8. Westpreußisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr.175 (WHITE PIPED BLUE)

According to my copy of the 1900 uniform regulations, the second badge is for The Worcestershire Regiment.

Mervyn,

Not meaning to sideline your thread (again!), but years ago I read the autobiography of the actor, David Niven, called "The Moon's a Balloon". He graduated from Sandhurst and when he filled out his paperwork on which regiment he wished to be commissioned in I think he had 3 choices. For choice #3 he put, "Anything but the Highland Light Infantry!" Well, of course, he was commissioned in the HLI. In the photos there was one of him, along with some fellow officers, in full dress, on their way to appear before the king, and Niven labelled the photo "Highland Postmen".

I thoroughly enjoyed the book, it had a lot of very humorous moments in it.

Mike

The first thing to do, oddly enough, is to wash it, thoroughly in freshwater, to get all the salt out of it. I would then use WD40 ("water displacer 40")sprayed thoroughly into every crack and crevice then wiped, soaked up again with clean clothes and replaced by a very light coat of gun oil or sewing machine oil. If at all feasible to do any 'take-down' such as dismounting the handgrips, pommel, etc. do that first and re-assemble again after the final oily-rag wipedown.

Hope this helps.

Peter

Thanks, Peter, I'll pass that on to him.

I have a good friend, from Galveston, Texas, who was presented a US Army sabre when he retired from the Army Reserve. The sabre spent 3 days submerged in salt walter after hurricane Ike when his entire house was flooded. Is there any place around that might be able to repair the saltwater damage?