The Prussian

Here´s another example. Bav. 16th. Inf.Rgt.

Hello ArHo! A rare photo!!!!! He wears the so-called "Friedensrock"! Grey tunic with red cuffs and collars and white shoulder straps! To me it´s Inf.Rgt.106 from Leipzig.

The casualty lists mentions him in bavarian 3rd Inf.Rgt. But I couldn´t find him in the regimental history. I also couldn´t find him in the Red Cross lists of POWs...

Was it him? http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/8240394

Hello! Yes, it´s a MG08/15. It´s probably an inofficial badge. I´ve seen it a few times before. A rare photo! Congrats!

With a little bit of phantasy Großpapa is really possible... It´s a shame, that the "young" germans like me (52) didn´t learn the old scripts in school...

Hello! Where are the p´s in papa? I can read Gruß?????, Are the more infos upon the reverse?

Hello! Heres is Korps Kühne, an overview of my collection and an article I wrote for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Heereskunde Verbandsabzeichen.pdf

Of course, it is. Good painting! Never mind the few mistakes

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This one??

Hello! To me it´s really a Festungsbau-Offizier: http://www.kammerbulle.de/html/namenszuge.html (scroll down to "Festungsbau-Offizier) The ribbon probably is red or green with dark stripes (maybe yellow stripes - they appear dark!) Maybe Friedrich-Kreuz für Kämpfer from Anhalt https://www.ehrenzeichen-orden.de/deutsche-staaten/friedrich-kreuz-anhalt-1914.html or Militär-Verdienst-Medaille Lippe-Detmold https://www.ehrenzeichen-orden.de/deutsche-staaten/militar-verdienstmedaille-mit-schwertern-1914-2-pragung.html Maybe he served in a bavarian unit and he was not bavarian born or bavarian citizen!

Hi Laurentius! Thanks a lot for the photos. The sabre seems to be an artillery -sabre. Black capband is ok for artillery. The belt was worn by mounted troops. That fits to artillery. Also the black pipings. BUT we have the problem with the field-artillery shoulder boards and the foot-artillery cuffs... The red collar-patches don´t make sense to me. Unfortunately I can´t say more. An uniform like this did not exist. Here you see the artillery fieldgrey uniforms:

Hi Laurentius! Now we have a problem... I also see a 5 with a grenade. Feldartillerie. BUT: FAR5 was a silesian unit. Fifth Army Corps. In peace time they had yellow shoulder-straps, so on this 07/10 tunic should be seen: grey shoulder-straps with yellow pipings. Or should it be officer boards? But then too, the pipings might be yellow. And Feldartillerie hat swedish cuffs. Swedish cuffs: Two buttons horinzotal Brandenburg cuffs: Three buttons vertical. What about the red patch at the collar? Upon a 07/10 tunic those red patches didn´t exist. They were worn upon a Litewka. Do you have close-up please? Can you also please show the sword? I assume, the painter used "artistic license"... There is something wrong... Here is a Lieutenant of FAR600 with Litewka and black collar patches:

Do you have a close-up of the shoulder boards, please?

Hello! Because of the brandenburg cuffs it will be Footartillery. The ranklist of Honour mentions a Leutnant Witte, later Oberleutnant a.D.

Thanks a lot!

Great! I think there ain´t no regimental history or a rank list of that period available? I ask because I'm confused. The regiment was in Rochefort since 1919 and engaged in Morroco in 1925. I didn't find anything about Algeria

Thanks a lot, matey! But you agree with the unit?

Oh, that´s interesting. So you would say, the pic was taken around 1926?

Hello! Thanks a lot! I didn´t know, when the new helmet was introduced! When was it exactly? 3rd RIC was in Rochefort from 1919-1939 (except 1925 Morocco). So am I right, when I say, they had a manoeuvre in the 20s in Algeria?

No-one else? ?

Some people told me, the photo could have been taken in the 20s. Had the 3rd Colonial Regiment been in Algerie in that period of time?

Hello! Thanks a lot! Don´t forget, the 3e régiment d'infanterie marine became 3e régiment d'infanterie coloniale in 1900. But they stayed in Cherbourg. I assume they had to serve a few months in the desert. Could it be? Here is a larger scan. He probably wears the anchor badge. Above he seems to wear the 1870 Bazeilles insignia. If the soldier fought in 1870, the pohoto might have been take earlier, maybe in the late 80s or early 90s

Here is a better scan. Maybe a 2 or a 3 upon the collar. What´s upon the tropical helmet? An anchor???