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Hello Bernhard! I read 2nd comp., but , anyway the infos that I have is, that those Trupps were treated like companies, so the "2nd company" is right and wrong... We´ve seen, that the Trupps were the Trupps 33, 38 and 36. , so the 2nd company should be Trupp 38. Maybe one wrote "company", because those three Trupps did wear the shoulder-strap-buttons and the Troddeln of 1.-3. company (since august 1916). So, Johannes Müller should have had a shoulder-strap with a "4", shoulder-straps-buttons with a "2", and Troddeln of the 2nd comp.
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Well, the blue is a modern trend, because the americans wear blue too. And because of Germany is the 51st star in the stars´n stripes, our police has to wear blue too... I don´t like it. The green was a traditionally colour, came out after the great war, when the first police units wore the green Jäger-Uniforms. In order of the americanizing in Germany, the new police cars just have got a new siren, like the american ones.
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My friend told me, that "i.G." is not part of the rank, but just a duty. So during his time as i.G. he had to wear the crimson colours (I meant crimson, when I wrote pink...). If he came back to his unit, he had to change into yellow again. The problem is, the BW didn´t publish any Ranglisten. We might know, inj which period he served. I checked a book about the 11th Panzergrenadier-Division. There is a Rangliste from 1956-1987 just for this division. But I didn´t find a "Halle" in the Panzeraufklärungs-Units of that division. In the cold war (when I served four years 1987-1991), there were 11 Panzeraufklärungs-Bataillone in the 11 divisions. So 11 Oberstleutnants. Hard to find him...
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Hi Chris! A very nice piece!!! It´s a 88-05. The 05 means, it was changed in 1905 for "Ladestreifen für S-Munition". After the Hindenburg-Programm, there were a lot of 98, so the 88 came into the Depots.Most of them were sent in 1917 to Turkey. After armistice, the britains made them "unshootable" by removing the clasps. In 1923 the turks bought new clasps in the Weapon-manufactory in Brünn (Czechoslovakia), that´s because there were turkish numbers upon the clasps.
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Hi Jock! Yes, the oficer´s stars are missing... The card says Oberstleutnant (Lt.Col.), so two stars are missing The card also says i.G. ("im Generalstab" - general-staff) The yellow colour around the shoulder-boards and the Litzen shows us, that he served with Panzeraufklärer (Armoured Reconnaissance). The upper-arm patch shows his duty in the "Streitkräfteamt" (Zentrale Militärische Dienststellen) ~ Armed forced office (central military departements) IF he was in the general-staff, he should have a generals-staff education. But then he wouldn´t have his yellow colours, but the pink colours, worn by the general-staff.
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No, a saxon chicken looks not like that. Here is the homepage of the saxon breeders... http://www.sachsenhuhn.de/ Well, joke aside... The saxons had a different kind of a tshako. It had a straight horizontal visor. The "chicken", in fact is a horsehair-tail, worn by saxon Jg.Btl.12 and 13 and Schützen-Rgt.108. These three units also had a posthorn upon their shoulder-straps. BUT! What is that for nice photo? R25 and a horsehair-tail??? Well, that´s easy. The saxon Res.Jg.Btl.25 was set-up by the Ers.Abt./s.Jg.Btl.13. The other saxon reserve Jäger unit, Res.Jg.Btl. 26, was set-up by the Ers.Abt./s.Jg.Btl.12 The other photo is a photo of the 8th company/Schützen-Rgt. 108
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Hello! Does someone have infos about Armierungs-Bataillons? I know that there were 217 bataillons raised in the first WW. I want to know, how many companies one bataillon had. I ask because, I´ve seen a postcard, handwritten with: Armierungs-Bataillon 7: 32. Kompanie, 21.Landwehr-Brigade Is it possible, that one single bataillon had more then 30 companies?
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Hello Dave! Thank you very much for your work. The soldiers of tghe Kdw.Brig.Ers.Btl,. had the Bataillon-Number on the shoulder boards. But does he wear a 43? By the way. That bataillon was set-up by the XI. army-corps. It belomnged from 1914-1917 to the Ldw.Ers.Inf.Rgt.3 (as III.Btl.), Gouvernment Metz. In march 1917 ist changed into II./Ldw.Inf.Rgt.94
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I´ve seen it. Nice photo-nice price... The Ehren-Rangliste mentions a Hauptmann Saatweber (Oberstleutnant a.D.) in FAR59. Maybe there is a 59 upon the shoulder boards, but the grenade is missing... I´ve found him in the Verlustliste, Hauptmann Max Saatweber (born in Barmen, near Wuppertal) , heavy wounded, 5th battery FAR59 (oct 13, 1914)
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