Wade K

That is a great looking tunic. How is it marked?

Hello Paul,

How are you? The tunic has the manufacturer markings for U.G.W Köln and depot E37 (erfurt 1937). Below this is an issue label (name blacked out as they often are....especially if reissued) to a Schütze in 14 Panzer abwehr Abteilung Infantrie Regt. 13. I'm enclosing a photo, but if you want to email me ( truppe "at" live.com.au ) i can send a full set of images. There is a full description also in the "sales" section of the forum.

It's a good straight M36 tunic....well marked, with it's original short medal bar. And m36 tunics are so much harder to find now. But any questions please send me an email and I will be glad to reply right away.

Cheers, Wade

Just added to the "For sale" section. Cheers, Wade

Hi Don,

it is amazing isn't it? The cafe we had coffee in (just in front of where the Sherman is in the background) had a little musee display, a couple of halftrack wheels by the fireplace and such.

In another weird coincidence connected with this photo I happenned to buy an old French auction catalogue off a guy on ebay, only to find that he lives in the house you can see sticking out on the corner directly above the body!

Again.....truth is stranger than fiction!

Wade K.

I and a friend stopped for coffee in Stavelot, November 2004. No big deal, just on our way from Paris to the militaria fair in Kassel. But as we were leaving, I suddenly recalled a photo I had seen in 'After the Battle' and only had to walk about 15 metres to get this exact comparison shot from memory. Every stone the same.....buildings in the background.......

The Waffen SS comitted a massacre of civilians in Stavelot, and so nobody probably mourned this poor guy. But I looked it up when I got home to my library and bizzarrely I found I had taken the photo 60 years to the day later!

Truth as they say is stranger than fiction.

Cheers, Wade K.

Greetings Mark and fellow Gentlemen!

1st post...so let's see how it goes! (I have so little time I am not quite sure why I am posting anywhere right now! :-)

Thought I might share with you that the 1st pattern was also made with Golden-yellow piping for cavalry or aufkl?rungs. Rediculously rare, and after many years of waiting this arrived yesterday! so i guess I am giving in to the excitement!

It will be shown in my next book which will be out next year and I am just finishing up now on Panzer uniforms. 'B36' depot stamped, factory piping, not retro fitted, and nothing moved, removed, modified or adapted! Just the sewn down shoulder straps removed and slip on brindles instead. The straps have a chain stitched 'S' cypher for 'Schule' and the tunic is marked to 'Kavallerie-Lehr- und Versuchs-Abteilung 2. Panzersp?h-Lehr-Schwadron', a unit created in this new school in 1937.

So there is a brief look at another, I must save the rest for my book. But these are extremely nice, although the wide collar of the 2nd pattern is very pleasing to the eye!

Cheers, Wade K.