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    The Prussian

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    1. Hello! Here is s a download-link to the Ehrenrangliste. https://www.sbc.org.pl/dlibra/publication/392685/edition/370076/content From page 947 you´ll find all saxon Officers z.D.
    2. Hello! Very interesting. The IC has a combat-ribbon. I just ordered his book. Maybe we can find some informations...
    3. Hello! There are different ways to wear the Edelweiß-Badge. It is was worn only at the cap, it was XIV.Army Corps Innsbruck. If it was worn at the cap and at the collar it was Tiroler Landesschützen (since 1917 "Kaiserschützen"). If it was worn only at the collar it was Landwehr-Infanterie-Regiment 4 or 27 (since 1917 Gebirgsschützen-Regiment 1 and 2) Heiterwang is a place in Tyrol. There was the 44th Inf.Div. In 1918 it included the 88th Schützen-Brigade with Mountain-Regiments 1 and 2, earlier "Tiroler Landesschützen", see above.. So probably the guys have an Edelweiß at the cap too. Later in the war there wered dirfferent "Bergführer-Companies". Mountain Guide Companies In order to provide the troops deployed in the high mountains, which often consisted mainly of soldiers who were not used to the mountains, with competent advisors and guides, so-called mountain guide companies were set up from 1916 onwards. However, these were only administrative units, as the mountain guides were assigned to the respective troops on a patrol basis. Ice axe, climbing rope and climbing shoes were obligatory parts of their equipment. If necessary, they also had skiing equipment at their disposal. For the training of military mountain guides, there were separate mountain guide replacement and instruction companies. Soldiers from various regiments or other troops, most of whom had already acquired mountaineering skills before the war through civilian practice of mountain sports, were trained there as mountain guides. Authorised Alpine Club mountain guides often acted as instructors. Analogous to the mountain guide courses of the Alpine Club, the lessons of the military alpine courses comprised the practical subjects: rock and ice technique, first aid, map reading and orientation in the terrain, rope use and learning or perfecting skiing. War-related innovations included the insurance of alpine climbs, blasting and storm training. The aim was to enable the military mountain guides to carry out militarily and alpinistically difficult undertakings themselves, on the one hand, and to teach the troops the most elementary alpine principles as instructors, on the other. In contrast to individual mountain guides who had already been assigned to various troops or districts since the beginning of the war, and who were often members of the Imperial and Royal Landsturm or the Tauern. Landsturm or the Tyrolean Standschützen, members of the mountain guide companies administratively belonged to the regiment of a Tyrolean Kaiserjäger regiment or an Kaiserschützen regiment. In 1918 there were 10 mountain-guide-companies identified. They had the numbers 1-4, 7-12. Unfortunately no 13. Bergf. also means the rank: Bergführer Maybe here we have the Alpine-Company N°13. There were Alpine-Companies 1-4, 6-7, 9-33, 35, 37 and 40.
    4. Hello! I also see "KA". The seems to be a german-speaking one. The letter "K" is unusual in non-german languages. Normally those languages use a "C". Maybe a saxon one: König Albert (King Albert)? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_of_Saxony
    5. Hello! According to the ranklist of honour I found a Major Böhme, served in the "Generalstab der Armee". Last wartime duty "Heeresgruppenkommando F" (Asian front "Yildirim"), last rank Major-General, last duty after the war;: Heeres-Friedenskommission (Peace-commission of the army). Ranklist 1914: Generalstab der Armee with uniform of Inf.Rgt.140 Medals 1914: RAO4 with crown, DAK Ranklist 1923 Linienkommandant in Breslau (rank Oberst, since June 16, 1920). So the photo must have been taken before june 1920. No medal list in ranklist 1923 Ranklist 1924: Left with pension (rank of Major-General) 1917-1918 he commanded the turkish 24th Infantry-Division He´s got an own wiki-page (in german language): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Böhme_(Offizier)
    6. Salut Thierry! My grand-uncle served in 2nd MGK (IR146, Armee-Abteilung Scholz) as Lt.d.Res. If you´re interested in the regimental history, you can order it on pdf for 5€: https://military-books.lima-city.de/hp23/146.html (N°1082)
    7. Salut Thierry! Here are some photos of IR146. The coloured photo shows my grand-uncle. 1916 he promoted to Lt.d.Res. in IR155, then he came to IR146. With this regiment he was wounded in Macedonia. Unfortunately I don´t know, in which regiment this photo was taken.
    8. Hello! A very beautiful set! Because of the battle clasps, we can say, that he must have been in 1st or 2nd army. During all of those three battles, these units were participated: 1.Army: 4th Inf.Brig. (Gren.Rgt.5, Füs.Rgt.33, Ldw.Rgt.5, Ldw.Rgt.45) 3./Drag.Rgt.10 6./Feldart.Rgt.1 VII.Army-corps 2.Army: 18th Inf.Div. (without II./GR11) I./Füs.Rgt.36 parts of Jg.Btl.9 parts of hess. Pio.Kp., Hauptmann Zander 1871 was Pr.Lt. in Res.Ldw.Btl. Magdeburg 36 (IV.Army-corps)
    9. Hello Nick! Did you have the pins made in the UK? We at the Feldgrau Forum are also planning to have such pins made. Could you recommend a company? Thank you very much!
    10. Of course, I think so. I´ve seen a few Sturmtrupp-badges in austrian books. No idea, if they were made in Austria or Germany.
    11. Well, that´s a very unique thread... There ain´t too much photos with those badges. Even in books most of them are wrong-described...
    12. Hi Jürgen! That´s ok. I can´t recommend FB, I hate it. For informations you better should look for a good forum like this one or our Feldgrau Forum in germany.
    13. Hi Jürgen! You wrote that you didn´t know, that is was my photo.. In the post I wrote, the photo is from my collection. Well, I didn´t know, that my photo was shown at pinterest. That´s why I hate all those pages. Pinterest, alamy and all the crap. They steal photos from the net, some publishers uses them for their books and earn money with our photos. Well, my fault was, that I didn´t use a copy-protection...
    14. Hi Jürgen! Wouldn´t it be kind, if you would ask me, before you post my photo at Facebook? A friend of mine showed me the attached post... Because I hate Facebook, I´m not amused... Photos in GMIC should remain in GMIC
    15. Hi Jürgen! Well, we can´t say, which badges were worn in an unusual way... Some badges or patches were worn 14/18, even they were forbidden... Here is something from my collection: Bavarian mine-sweeper: Flammenwerfer: Saxon searchlight members: Meldegänger (Res.Inf.Rgt.82) And a couple of hand-grenade-launchers
    16. Hello Jürgen! The only official metal badges were Edelweiß and Karpathenkorps. The rest were unofficial ones. Maybe there were some for Stormtroopers, but I haven´t seen some. Most of them were Freikorps badges. Your picture shows different cloth badges. The skullhead was for Flammenwerfer (official) and crown with the W was for Sturmbataillon 5 (the only official one).
    17. Hi Jürgen! That´s not strange... Bavaria and Austria had a lot of commercial connections. Before, during and after the war. A catalogue would be hard to find. Maybe in several ones about austrians cap badges?
    18. Yes... But it seems to be an italian magazine... The word "Sturmtruppen" was well-known in germany, but it was never used for official units. it was just a collective term for all "Sturm"-units like Abteilungen (detachments), bataillon or companies. IF germany had produced such a badge, it would be familiar to the unit, like "Sturmbataillon Nr.5 Rohr"
    19. Very kind words, Nick! Thank you very much! You can not help the fees that are incurred in each country. With the one more, with the other less. But I think for the quality of the pin it is still cheap! I think about whether we should also have such a pin made in our Feldgrau forum!
    20. Hello Juergen! I´ve never seen such a badge on german uniforms and have never read about it according to german uniforms. I assume it´s a badge, made in Germany for austrian troops. Te meaning "Sturmtruppen" was usually used by k.u.k. troops and not by germans.
    21. Hello! Right. The customs duties amounted to 1,44€. DHL has laid out the money and charges 6,00€ for this service. Flat rate, no matter what the value of the goods. I can avoid the 6€ if I register with customs as a "self-customer". Then I get the package but not sent home, but must pick it up at customs. In my case, that would be 26km there and back plus a day of vacation, because the officials are only open from 7:30 to 12:30. So there rather the 6€...
    22. Hello Nick! Mine has arrived today! Thank you very much!
    23. Hi Michael! The chevrons indicate his front-line presence. The first one (at the bottom) stands for one year, each other for six months. He has seven chevrons, that means he has four years front-experience. If the chevrons were upon the right arm, they would stand for wounds he suffered. By the way... we talked about the six-star generals in the FL Forum...
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