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I was thinking more like 80. Chip

Charles, That is why we old people have reference material! Chip

Charles, I would think if you just had an enlisted cap with a "Reservist" cockade, there would be no way of telling whether the soldier was a reservist or a Landwehrmann. Issue markings would be your only help. Landsturm could be differentiated by the color of the cross on the cockades for all ranks. Gilt metal crosses for Landsturm and silver for Landwehr and Reservists. The Landsturm were the ones that wore their corps/battalion insignia on their collars starting in 1915. Chip

Charles, I doubt you will learn anything from this, but here is a selection of Reservist/Landwehr cockades (with the exception of the standard Hamburg enlisted cockade in the upper left of the photo). Chip

Dave, Thanks again. You are an inestimable help to us all. Chip

Chris, They might be from the same source, but they are not from the same period. The straps are the M1915 type for the Bluse and the swallow's nests are from the Dunkelblau era. What is throwing me a bit is the braid around the top (curved) edge. Neither my prewar or wartime references show any with braid on this edge. Chip

Mike, On these cord numbers.....you can usually tell what they are by looking at the cord that the cypher is made from. If it is the same width, you have a "I". Cord is only used by certain regiments and a "II" is normally made from two strips of the cypher cord with the addition of a smaller thread/cord across the top and bottom. Chip

Mike, Both the 101. and the 110. have a Roman numeral "I" underneath the cypher. Take a look at this period regimental postcard from the 101st. Chip

Chris, This type of Tresse indicates that these were worn a musician from a dismounted Garde regiment (most likely infantry) with silver buttons. Chip

Here's the Baden example.

Chris, These straps are not from the Grenadier Regiment Nr.110. They are from the Saxon Grenadier Rgt. Nr.101. Here is the difference....the Baden regiment had a die-cut cypher. Saxon regiments always had a cypher fashioned from Schnurr on their M15 straps. The Saxon crown was distinctive. The Baden crown was die-cut, of a different style and without any cord. I've attached a picture of three Saxon enlisted M15 straps so you can see what I mean. Saxon shoulder straps for the field uniform were not square topped after 1907. Chip

Theodor, Lover those Bulgarian awards. Beautiful!!!! Chip

Razputin, Are there any inscriptions on the little metal plates or are they blank? If not blank, what is on them? Thanks, Chip

Chris, That is possibly the best photo that I have ever seen of a period Edelwei?. Very nice! Chip

Bob, Unfortunately, the ink stamp on the document is not completely legible. You can easily read "Garde Reserve Pionier Regiment", but there may have been more information on the bottom of the stamping. There are no other signatures on the document, but I did notice that what looks like the word "stelle" is inked in below where it says Regimentsf?hrer, so perhaps he was signing as a temporary commander. I will post the document later this week. Chip

Hardy, I'm pretty sure that members of the regular Storm Battalions were refered to as "Grenadier", so I think it is possible that the abbreviation is (Gr.). There is a little information on S.-B. 16 in Jean-Louis Larcade's book, "Deutsche Sturmtruppen". This is a paperback book, printed in 2002. It was composed of four Sturm-Komp. (3.Sturm-Komp. was W?rttemberg and the other three companies were made up of Baden troops) and a M.G.Komp. and a M.W.Komp. Two of the three Baden companies were dissolved by decree on Aug.22, 1918. Depot Units: 1,2 and 4.Sturm-Komp:..........2.E.B./Inf.-Rgt.Nr.114 3.Sturm-Komp:......................E.B./Inf.-Rgt.Nr.120.(2.W?rttemb.) M.G.Komp:............................2.Ers.M.G.K. XIV.A.K. M.W.Komp:...........................E.B./Pio.-Bat.Nr.14. Chip

Chris, Thanks for helping clear that up. I did not think that anything was wrong with the document. Just not sure about the protocol. So there was actually a known raid during this time period?! It would be great to find out more about it. How did you find which regiment that Pistorius was commander of? Perhaps the raid was the one when they captured their last prisoner of the war. By the way, the document has the unit ink stamp of the Garde=Reserve=Pionier=Rgt.. Chip

Sorry. I wasn't clear. I did not mean to infer that these were See Batl. troops, rather that these soldiers might have had a similar patch. Gilles, you may be on to something, but I have no knowledge of police speciality patches. I would like to know more if you have additional information. Chip

Hello, Can anyone add some information about Major d. Lw. u. Rgtsf?hrer Pistorius? Which regiment was he commander of? We know it was 26.Landwehr Division, so it had to be the 119.LIR, 123.LIR or 124.LIR. I wonder why the storm battalion's commander did not sign the EKII document? Perhaps it was because Sturmbatl.16 was also temporarily assigned to the 26.Ldwr.Division and had moved on? Chip

David, We never tire of seeing Gibraltar cuff band photos. Can you see the shoulder straps? Which regiment is it? Chip

Bob, The document for Johanes Gruben is not mine. I had just found it in an old thread for Chris. I do have an EKII document from Gardepionier Jakob Schl?sser of the 6.Kp. G=R=P=R. The document is dated 22.11.1917 and was issued by Sturmbatl. 16 of the 26.Landwehr Division and signed by a Major d. Lw. u. Rgtsf?hrer Pistorius. The division's poor combat record makes one wonder what pioneer Schl?sser was doing there. The division remained in a quiet sector throughout the entire war and was rated one of the worst because of it. Perhaps Schl?sser was there to try to get them interested in doing something. It was about the time the division captured its last prisoner of the war in 1917! Chip

Rick, Have you noticed that nearly all of the blue on white cadet patches that have shown up are machinist related? Somebody must have found a bunch of them about twenty years ago. That's when I got mine and saw others for sale. I just wish I had had the foresight to have gotten them all at the time. I just settled for the one Obermaschinistenapplikant example. Would the three patches you show above be, Maschinistenapplikant, Maschinistenmaatapplikant and Obermaschinistenapplikant? Chip

Chris, Sch?tze Hinze is not mentioned in the Ehrentafel, so he survived the war. There were only six men mentioned from the MGK who died. There is no particular mention of Hinze. The battalion was in the Reuthel-Reims area during June of 1918. It appears that they were with the 203.Division, Gruppe Lindequist for the July offensive. The Bataillonsf?hrer at the time was Hauptmann Jenetzky. The book has a photo of him and his staff as well as a very interesting photo of most of commanders of the official storm battalions, including the commanders of the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 18th battalions. There are photos of several of the storm companies and one of the Musketentrupp of the 1.Strmkp., but none of the MGK. Chip

Jens, I like your 145.I.R. bar. I met a family member who was in the regiment before (1909-1911) and during the war. He was 92 years old when I met him in 1980. During is service with the regiment, he rose from private to the rank of Feldwebelleutnant. Chip