The Prussian

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)

No. your photos show: 1) Feldhaubitze 105mm M98/09 2) probably Feldkanone 77mm, M96 n.A. I only have photos of the Feldhaubitze M93. But I think, there ain´t no big difference to the M96

Hello! Those Litzen are not normal for that unit. The Fußart.Btl. 62 was set-up by Fußart.Rgt.15. The Fußart.Btl. 62 was (in 1918) equipped with the schwere Feldhaubitze 96 and was under command of the Artillerie-Beobachtungs-Schule I Ost in Groß-Auz (artilleire-observer-school I East in Groß-Auz). There also was a aviation-observer school. So you don´t have a fighting unit, but I think a quite rare unifirm of that school! Châpeau!

We had a short thread about that regiment in our Feldgrau Forum http://feldgrau.pytalhost.com/vbulletin/showthread.php/fotofrage-sk-nummer-33059.html?p=137832#post137832

Hi Eric! Yes, that´s right. This monogram was intruduced in 1916. The white piping for infantry was worn on the M15 tunic

Hello! I love that photo!!!! Unfortunately I don´t have any infos about that Luftschiff. I only know, in Allenstein was the "Militär-Luftschiffhafen" and there also was the "Feldluftschiff-Trupp Nr.16" (disolved 1917) The LZ26 was tactically named as Z XIII. It had a volume of 25.000 cubemetres. It´s first flight was 14.12.1914 and it has been broke up august 8th 1917 in Jüterbog

"The Horten Ho XIII B supersonic flying wing fighter was developed from the Ho XIII A glider" I agree, Bill! Maybe we have the Horton XIII A glider, because of the missing of the exhaust gas

Hi Jock! Try it here: www.eurobuch.com

Hi Jock! Try it here: www.eurobuch.com

Hello gents! To me it is a Lippisch DM 1 It was 6,60m long and a had a weight of 460kg. In 1945 there were several "tow-attempts" . During those attempts it came up to 4000m and came down in a nosedive. This one led the way for some post-war aeroplanes with triangle-dimensions. The americans built their first "Delta-wings" because of this DM 1. Photo taken from: "Die deutschen Geheimwaffen" (Brian Ford), Molden-Verlag 1969

Thanx Chris! I´ll do my best and carry on!

What are those "better lists", please? Do you have originals papers of that unit??? That would be great! Oh, just right now I recognize this is my 1000. thread!!!!!!

Ah, ok ! That sounds very interesting!!!

Why is he unknown? Do you have "Stellenbesetzungen" of the A7V Abteilungen???

Right! The "Etatmäßige" And because he was the Spieß, he was not a crew member. But that doesn´t matter. The EK of the Spieß is rarer

Thet´s right. Each Abteilung had one single Feldwebel. Here is a strength-list of an A7V Abteilung (with 5 tanks): A. Driving staff: 1 Captain or Lieutenant (Leader AND tank commander) 4 Lieutenants (Commanders of the other 4 tanks) 1 Unterzahlmeister 1 Feldwebel 1 Vizefeldwebel (Mechanic) 5 Unteroffiziere (Drivers) 10 gefreite (Driver and mechanics) 5 Unteroffiziere, Gefreite or enlisted men (Reserve) 4 Unteroffiziere 12 Gefreite and 42 enlisted men (Driver, Motorcyclist, Mechanics, Tailor, Shoemaker, Writer and div. workers) 5 enlisted men from the train B. Weapon staff a) from the MG-troups: 1 Lieutenant 10 Unteroffiziere, 10 Gefreite, 20 enlisted men (Tank crew) 5 Gefreite or enlisted men (Reserve) 3 Waffenmeistergehilfen (Unteroffiziere, Gefreite or enlisted men) b) from the fieldartillery: 1 Lieutenant 5 Unteroffiziere, Gefreite and Richtkanoniere (Tank crew) 5 Gefreite or enlisted men (Reserve) 2 Waffenmeistergehilfen (Unteroffiziere, Gefreite or enlisted men) C. Signal-staff 5 Vizewachtmeister (Tank crew) 4 Unteroffiziere 3 Gefreite or enlisted men D. Other staff 1 Sanitäts-Unteroffizier 7 enlisted men of the train, workers E. Vehicles 5 A7V 2 cars for staff 1 small lorry 1 lorry (Mechanic) 1 lorry (Tools) 1 lorry with trailer (Fuel) 5 lorries (each for a tank - support of ammo, tools etc) 1 motorcycle 1 Trailer with field-kitchen

Hi turtle! The regiment belonged to to the 60.Inf.Brig. (30.Inf.Div.) From 22.8.16-6.9.16 to the 50.Inf.Div. From 30.5.18-3.6.18 to the 82.Res.Div. The 30.Inf.Div. was at the following theatres: 1914: Alsace-Lorraine, Flanders 1915: Flanders 1916: Verdun, Somme, Meuse 1917: Champagne, Meuse, Cambrai, Champagne 1918: Champagne, Montdidier, Champagne, Cambrai

That will be difficulty... I only have the names of the tank commanders, not of the NCOs. The leaders were officers or NCOs. I have that list of the leaders, no Mr. Hammer. But the crew of an A7V were 16 men. The signal NCO was a Vizefeldwebel. If Mr. Hammer was a Feldwebel, I don´t think, he was in action in the tanks... so he might serve in his duty as the "etatmäßiger Feldwebel"

Maybe we can sort out by looking at the battles of the Abteilung 1. If the cross is from 1st october, for what action did he recieved it? There were six battles before october, in which the 1st Abt. was involved. 21.3.: St. Quentin 24.4.: Villers-Brettoneux 1.6.: Görtz 9.6.: Matz 15.7.: Marneschutz 31.8.: Frémicourt

I have still found something about the name "Mörser-Regiment" The saxon Fußart.Rgt.12 had its garrisson in Metz. The I./12 was the garrisson-force, only II. and III./12 were mobile units with their 21cm. These two batallions were called "Mörser-Regiment".

Hello! The Division was there until 30th november 1914. The major-battles were from 10th-12th november

Hello friends! Fußartillerie-Bataillon 64 Set-up by Fußart.Rgt.19 Armed with 10cm M04 and schwere Feldhaubitze M13 In 1918 under command of 24rd Res.Div. I stole the following infos from the milex site: http://www.agw14-18.de/formgesch/formatio_allgemein.html Fußartillerie - Fußartillerie- Regimenter [62] : - Am 02.August aufgestellt: 1.G (III. 15.09.16), 2.G (III. 30.12.16), 1 (IV. 04.08.16), 2 (III. 14.08.16; IV. 02.07.17), 3 (III. 15.01.17), 4 (I.-III.), 5 (III. 01.06.15), 6 (I.-III.), 7 (IV. 24.09.17), 8 (III. 26.01.16), 9 (I.-III.), 10 (III. 15.01.17), 11 (III. 15.01.17), 12 (IV. 21.09.16), 13 (III. 22.07.16; IV. 28.08.16), 14 (III. 03.11.15; IV. 15.01.17), 15 (III. 30.12.16), 16 (III. 15.09.17), 17 (III. 19.07.18), 18 (IV. 09.11.15), 19 (III. 01.06.15), 20 (III. 15.01.17); 1.b. (III.03.03.15), 2.b. (III. 17.09.16), 3.b. (nur I.und II.). - Im Jahr 1916 aufgestellt: 21 (I. 28.11.16; II. und III. 15.01.17), 22 (I. 28.11.16; II. und III. 15.01.17), 23 (I. 28.11.16; II. und III. 15.01.17); 4.b. (I. und II. 27.12.16). - Im Jahr 1917 aufgestellt: 3.G (I.-IV. 12.12.17), 24 (I.-II. 19.12.17), 25 (I.-III. 15.01.17), 26 (I.-III. 15.01.17), 27 (I.-III. 15.01.17), 28 (I.-III. 15.01.17). - Am 11.Mai 1918 aufgestellt: 5.b. (I.-II.), 6.b. (I.-II.) [63] . Reserve- Fußartillerie- Regimenter: - Am 02.August 1914 mobil gemacht: 1.GRes (III. 04.11.18), 2.GRes (III. 18.10.16; IV. 21.10.17), 1 Res. (I.-II.), 2 Res. (III. 04.11.16), 3 Res. (III. 28.08.15), 4 Res. (III. 04.11.16), 5 Res. (I.-II.), 6 Res. (III. 11.09.15), 7 Res. (I.-III.; V. 12.03.16) [64] , 8 Res. (I.-II.), 9 Res. (III. 25.08.15; IV. 01.09.16), 10 Res. (I.-III.; IV. 18.10.16), 11 Res. (III. 30.12.15), 13 Res. (III. 22.08.15; IV. 16.06.17), 14 Res. (III. 01.02.15; IV. 04.11.16), 15 Res. (I.-II.), 16 Res. (I.-II.), 17 Res. (III. 01.01.16; IV. 04.11.16), 18 Res. (III. 08.09.15), 20 Res. (III. 01.02.15); b. 1.Res. (I.-II.), b. 2.Res. (I.-II.), b. 3.Res. (III.-IV. 28.01.16) - Am 31.März 1916 aufgestellt: 12 Res. (I.-III.) [65] . - Am 19.Januar 1917 aufgestellt: 19 Res. (I.-III.) [66] . Landwehr- Fußartillerie- Regimenter: - Am 11.Juli 1918 aufgestellt: Ldw.Fußa.Rgt. „Borkum“ [67] . Landwehr- Fußartillerie- Regimentsstäbe [68] : - Am 02.August 1914 mobil gemacht: 1, 3-5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14-16, b.3. - Am 27.Oktober 1914 aufgestellt: b.2. - Am 19.Februar 1915 aufgestellt: b.1. - Am 10.Juni 1915 aufgestellt: 20. Fußartillerie- Regimentsstäbe: - Am 22.August 1915 aufgestellt: Fußa.Rgt.St. 203. - Im Jahr 1916 aufgestellt: Fußa.Rgt.St. 101-110, 206-208, 210, 212, 215, 218, 219, 223-225; b.1-3 [69] . - Am 20.November 1916 aufgestellt: Fußa.Rgt.St. z.b.V. 1 [70] . - Im Jahr 1917 aufgestellt: Fußa.Rgt.St. 111-125 [71] . Fußartillerie- Bataillone [72] : - Im Jahr 1915 aufgestellt: Nr. 21-24, 26-28, 29-31, 36, 38-40, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58, 84; b.10. - Im Jahr 1916 aufgestellt: Nr. 25, 32-35, 37, 41-49, 51, 53, 55, 57, 59-83, 85-99, 150-157, 401-404; b.4, b.5, b.7-9, b.11-17. - Im Jahr 1917 aufgestellt: Nr. 100, 101, 106-118, 124, 158, 159, 405-407; b.18-27. - Im Jahr 1918 aufgestellt: Nr. 102-105, 110-123, 125-149, 160-164, 167-170, b.28, b.29. Reserve- Fußartillerie- Bataillone [73] : - Am 02.August 1914 mobil gemacht: Res.Fußa.Btle 12, 19; b.6. Landwehr- Fußartillerie- Bataillone [74] : - Am 02.August 1914 mobil gemacht: 1.G, 2.G, 1-11, 13-20; b.1-3. - Im Dezember 1915 aufgestellt: 3.G, 4.G, II./1, II./4, 22, 26, 27, 28. - Im Frühjahr 1916 aufgestellt: II./6, 21, 23-25. - Im Herbst 1916 aufgestellt: 29-36, 38-45. - Im Jahr 1917 aufgestellt: 12, 37, 46-71. - Im Frühjahr 1918 aufgestellt: 72-76. Landsturm- Fußartillerie- Bataillone [75] : - Am 02.August 1914 mobil gemacht: I.-XV., XVII.-XX., b.I.-II.; 1./ und 2./b.3. - Am 05.Februar 1915 aufgestellt: 2./VIII. - Am 02.November 1916 aufgestellt: 2./VII. Feldartillerie- Ersatz- Bataillone: - Im Jahr 1914 aufgestellt: Nr. 21, 26-28, b.2, b.3 [76] . - Im Jahr 1916 aufgestellt: Fußart.E-Btl. der 1., 2. und 5.Armee [77] . - Im Jahr 1917 aufgestellt: Nr. 1-5 [78] . - Im Jahr 1918 aufgestellt: Nr. 6. Fußartillerie- Bataillonsstäbe [79] : - Im Jahr 1915 aufgestellt: Nr. 201 (FB55), 202 (FB28), 203 (Stab FR203), 204 (13.b.FB), 205 (FB 30), 206 (Stab FR206), 207 (Stab FR 207), 208 (Stab FR208), 209 (FB25), 210 (Stab FR210), b.211 (4.b.FB), 212 (Stab FR212), 213 (FB82), 214 (FB29), 215 (Stab FR215), 216 (15.b.FB), 217 (9.b.FB), 218 (Stab FR218), 219 (Stab FR219), 220 (8.b.FB), 221 (5.b.FB), 222 (FB12), 223 (Stab FR223), 224 (Stab FR224). - Im Jahr 1916 aufgestellt: Nr. 225 (Stab FR225), 226 (FB98), 227 (FB65), 228 (16.b.FB), 229 (FB83), 230 (III./1.GFR), 231 (24.b.FB), 232 (FB85), 233 (FB53), 234 (FB33), 235 (FB86). Fußartillerie- Batterien [80] : - Im Jahr 1914 aufgestellt: ResFußa.Battr. 22-31 [81] . - Im Jahr 1915 aufgestellt: Fußa.Battr. 11, 83, 84, 101-138, 199, 201-631. - Im Jahr 1916 aufgestellt. Fußa.Battr. 139-149, 632-797. - Im Jahr 1917 aufgestellt: 182-198, 1000-1021, 1023-1025. Kurze Marine-Kanonen- Batterien (42cm) [82] : - Am 02.August 1914 mobil gemacht: Battr. Nr. 1-3. - Im Jahr 1914 aufgestellt: Nr.4. - Im Jahr 1915 aufgestellt: Nr. 5-7. - Im Jahr 1916 aufgestellt: Nr. 8-10. - IM jahr 1917 aufgestellt: Nr. 7(neu) und Nr.11. Schwere Küstenmörser- Batterien (30,5cm) [83] : - Am 02.August 1914 mobil gemacht: Nr. 1-5. - Im Jahr 1914 aufgestellt: Nr. 6-7. - Im Jahr 1915 aufgestellt: Nr. 8-9. - Im Jahr 1916 aufgestellt: Nr.10. Schwere 15cm Kanonen- Batterien [84] : - Im Jahr 1915 aufgestellt: Nr.1-9. - Im Jahr 1916 aufgestellt: Nr. 10-31. - Im Jahr 1917 aufgestellt. Nr. 32-41. - Im Jahr 1918 aufgestellt: Nr. 42-48.

Ah, ok. I think,m we have to wait, until themissing casualty reports will be published

I don´t think, that a soldier of the Feldrekruten-Depot was sent into action.. Maybe someone has the Divisional-history of that division

Hi Chris! Unfortunately there ain´t no infos about the regiment. In 1917 the 1.GRD constisted of 1st Garde-Res.Rgt; 2nd Garde-Res.Rgt. and 64.Res.Rgt. I didn´t find him in the casualty reports