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Hi Jock! Nice cards! I agree with artillery because of the grenade. But does the A stands for artillery? I´ve never seen that before. Where were those cards written? I can´t read it...

I think, Bavaria had only one single Feldsignalabteilung, so your stamp could be. Bayerische Feldsignalabteilung, weapon Nr.9 (Görtz, page 109).

Hello! Before the war there were so-called "Feldsignalabteilungen". They were used in the cavalry divisions. S.A. stands for those units. Mabye there were 9 Abteilungen in Bavaria? My guess is: "Bayerische Feldsignalabteilung Nr.9"

Nothing to add, great work, IG! I just can add two photos of Res.Feldart.Rgt.43 Note the uniform special. Reserve units of the fieldartillery had metal-numbers!

Hi Marcin! So we have the VII.AK. This armycorps was at Verdun-West (9.9.16-31.3.17)

Hello Marcin! That´s not so easy. The Ersatz-Feldartillerie-Regiment Jüterbog was divided. Each battery belonged to another armycorps. 1.Ers.Bttr.: Garde-Korps 2.Ers.Bttr.: III.AK 3.Ers.Bttr.: II.AK 4.Ers.Bttr.: IX.AK 5.Ers.Bttr.: VII.AK Is the battery mentioned on the doc?

In 1939 there was a Hauptmann Voß mentioned as Adjutatnt of the Landwehrkommandeur Krefeld (later Mülheim /Ruhr)

A good example for "globalization"... I´m glad to own the book as a "real" book...

Hi Les! I clicked, but... "This item is not available online"

Great photos, mattyboy! Thanks a lot!!!!!!

It´ s really a must! Sometimes it will be offered at www.eurobuch.com Chris, I mentioned that book a few times here in the forum. But maybe you didn´t recognize it... Anyway, the index of that books lists only the german units, but some foreign units are also in the book! I attached an index,created by myself, about the german-allied units. Fat written numbers are western front Index der verbündeten Einheiten.pdf

Hello! Here is my list of books about the Marne: Books published after 1945: *Georges Blond "Die Marne Schlacht" *Wolfgang Paul "Entscheidung im September (Das Wunder an der Marne 1914)" *Sebastian Haffner/Wolfgang Venohr "Das Wunder an der Marne" *Ritter "Der Schlieffenplan" *Ehlert/Epkenhans/Groß "Der Schlieffenplan" Books published before 1945: *Lieutenant-Col. Koeltz "Le G.Q.G. allemand et la bataille de la Marne" *Oberst Egli "Der Aufmarsch und die Bewegungen der Heere Frankreichs, Belgiens und Englands auf dem westl. Kriegsschauplatz bis zum 23.August 1914" *Joh.Victor Bendt "Die belgische Neutralität und der schlieffensche Feldzugsplan" *Generalstab des Heeres "Der Handstreich gegen Lüttich vom 3.bis7.August 1914" *Dr.Eugen Bircher "Die Schlacht an der Marne (Eine kriegspolitische Studie)" *Generalfeldmarschall v.Bülow "Mein Bericht zur Marneschlacht" *Oberleutnant v.Rohrscheidt "Warum haben wir die Schlacht an der Marne 1914 verloren?" *Generaloberst v.Hausen "Erinnerungen an den Marnefeldzug 1914" *Generalmajor Baumgarten-Crusius "Die Marneschlacht 1914 ; insbesondere an der Front der deutschen dritten Armee" *Generaloberst v.Kluck "Der Marsch auf Paris und die Marneschlacht 1914" *Oberst Hierl "Studien über die Führung der dt. 3.Armee in den Tagen vom 27.-29.August 1914" *Oberst Hierl "Studien über die Führung der dt. 1.Armee in der Zeit vom 29.August abends bis 30.August abends" *unbek. "Die Marneschlacht 5.-9.14" *Gen.d.Inf. v.Kuhl "Der Marnefeldzug 1914" *Generalmajor Baumgarten-Crusius "Deutsche Heerführung im Marnefeldzug 1914" *Oberstleutnant Müller-Loebnitz "Die Führung im Marne-Feldzug 1914" *Oberstleutnant Müller-Loebnitz "Die Sendung des Oberstleutnants Hentsch" *Graf Moltke "Die deutsche Tragödie an der Marne" *General Ludendorff "Das Marne-Drama , Der Fall Moltke - Hentsch" *Generalleutnant v.Tappen "Bis zur Marne 1914" *Anton Fendrich "Von der Marneschlacht bis zum Fall Antwerpens" *Dr.Walther Kolbe "Die Marneschlacht" *Gen.d.Inf. v.Francois "Marneschlacht und Tannenberg" *Generalleutnant Kabisch "Marneschlacht 1914" *Reichsarchiv (Der Weltkrieg 1914-1918 )Band 1,3 und 4 *Reichsarchiv (Das Marnedrama I-IV)

Hi Stephan! Maybe this dog tag was used after the war for a Freikorps (L.J. = Landesjäger ?)

Hello Andreas! The I.Ers.Komp./IX.AK was set-up in Altona. It came to the Ers.Btl./Res.Inf.Rgt.76. One platoon came to the Brig.Ers.Btl.Nr.33, and became later MG-Kp./Inf.Rgt.362

Hi Kornel! Nein. die habe ich aus verschiedenen Auktionen

Hello! For Lippe we had two kontingents. Lippe-Detmold (Inf.Rgt.55) Schaumburg-Lippe (Jäger-Btl.7)

Yes, of course. The bataillon was formed in 1916. The list only shows the weapons they had in 1918. My small picture about the tactical signs are from 1914. But I only wanted to show, that the arrow with the circle was named Feldhaubitze (96). Fußartillerie is a very special thing, like engineers. I don´t think, that we´ll ever have a list, which shows each unit with every single gun during the war.

Oh yes, but unfortunately I love that photo too... Can you recognize the shoulder board of your picture?

Here I have two nice close-ups

Nice picture! What´s that collar? Kürassier?

Hello IG! Yes, you´re right! That list from the Ehrenbuch which shows the units of 1918. There is also a list from 1914. For the schwere Feldhaubitze we have the "arrow with the circle". In the 1914 list the arrow with the circle is named "Feldhaubitze (96)" I don´t know what the 96 stands for. Right now I don´t believe in quantity, because the other weapons don´t have such a number

Hello IG! Yes, you´re right! That is list from the Ehrenbuch which shows the units of 1918. There is also a list from 1914. For the schwere Feldhaubitze we have the "arrow with the circle". In the 1914 list the arrow with the circle is named "Feldhaubitze (96)" I don´t know what the 96 stands for. Right now I don´t believe in quantity, because the other weapons don´t have such a number

That´s right! I checked again the "Ehrenbuch". There is marked: schwere Feldhaubitze (96). Maybe the 96 ain´t a year (or a mistake) or a quantity. The M93 normally was known as "schwere Feldhaubitze" without a M93, because it was the only one 15cm howitzer in that period

Great sentence... I know, they ain´t cheap, but they will get more expensive each year. You better should buy them now. Like the Muther/Schirmer! I haven´t seen them for sale!

Hi IG! Well you´re right! I also haven´t found a M96. I posted it, because I read in the "Ehrenbuch der schweren Artillerie". The was the 96 mentioned. But I think, it was a fault. So, we can say, it will be the 93 in this case. I will mention those books: Muther:/Schirmer: Das Gerät der Artillerie vor, in und nach dem Weltkrieg" Also very intersting the both books "Ehrenbuch der schweren Artillerie" (vol 1 and 2)