The Prussian

Hello! It might be the bright red, the so called crimson (red) It was worn by the entire general staff. Here´s an example of a Hauptmann i.G.

Hi Chris! I wish you luck for finding the tunic, but it´ll be life-work...

Hi Eva! Well, the number on the button indicates the company, and the number on the shoulder strap indicates the regiment. If you see a 6 on the shoulder strap, it really could be the Gren.Rgt.6 (Posen)

Hello Eva! Well, I´m not sure, if there was written "Uffz". It was just a guess. But it fits to the rank of the man (Stabsordonnanz). According to the name, it could be Weiss or Weise. Those handwritings are always difficulty, because whose name could it be? The atelier? The person who was photographed? An unknown person, who ordered another photo from the atelier? The only thing, you can do, is to check all the names fit to the circle in that family. Maybe there is a similar name

The photo with the car is nice. Number plates from New Jersey. The medal was the medal, each soldier did recieve, who served in the 70/71 war

Hello Eva! I think, it´ll be an abbreviation of his rank. Probably Uffz. (Unteroffizier = NCO). The last photo is a franco-prussian war photo. But unfortunately one can´t make out the unit

Hi Jock! The swallows were not rare. They wore it during the fights too. When they didn´t play music, the could be in action with their uniforms

Hi Jock! Yes, it´s a boot... I don´t know, if it´s an allied or a german airplane. The Inf.Rgt.94 belonged to the 38.Inf.Div. (4th army). October 1, the division came into the Cambrai area (Rumilly), where it fought heavy fights. Oct. 16 it came to a quiet area near Courtrai. Maybe the photo was taken there? I attached a map of the period of oct.22 - nov.19. You´ll find the 38.Inf.Div. near Courtrai

Hello Eva! Well, the Luftschutz-helmets are not very rare here in Germany, because still in a lot of road and building constructions they are found by the workers. Back to the photo. It´s strange to define the colours, because some colours appear in another colour as they really are. We have brandenburg cuffs (three buttons vertical). Those were worn by infantry and foot-artillery. The shoulder-strap semms to be "edged", but that can´t be, because edged ones were worn by saxon units. But I see a prussian collar-button. Saxon units didn´t have those cuffs. So the collar might be red and the shoulder straps blue or yellow (yellow often appears nearly black!). The cuffs might be red with white pipings. Unfortunately I can´t anything upon the strap, but there is something! Probably a number. Now it´ll be interesting, in which area the man lived. For the combinations I mentioned above we have the following possibilities: Red cuffs, white pipings, yellow shoulder straps: V.Armycorps (Posen): Gren.Rgt.6 (Posen) Inf.Rgt.19 (Görlitz and Lauban) Inf.Rgt.37 (Krotoschin) Inf.Rgt.46 (Posen and Wreschen) Inf.Rgt.47 (Posen and Schrimm) Inf.Rgt.50 (Rawitsch and Lissa) Inf.Rgt.58 (Glogau and Fraustadt) Inf.Rgt.155 (Ostrowo and Pleschen) Red cuffs, white pipings, blue shoulder straps: VII. Armycorps (Westphalia) Inf.Rgt.13 (Münster) Inf.Rgt.15 (Minden) Inf.Rgt.16 (Mülheim/Ruhr) Füs.Rgt.39 (Düsseldorf) Inf.Rgt.53 (Köln) Inf.Rgt.55 (Höxter, Bielefeld, Detmold) Inf.Rgt.56 (Wesel, Cleve) Inf.Rgt.57 (Wesel) Inf.Rgt.159 (Mülheim/Ruhr)

Hello Chris! I don´t think,we have a bavarian uniform. Probably it´s Württtemberg The württemberg Gebirgsschützen. First set-up as a Schneeschuh-Kompanie in august 1914 (leader Oberleutnant d.Res. Schaller from IR119), it became may, 1st, 1915 the name Gebirgs-Kompanie, later in october 1915 Gebirgs-Bataillon (6 companies and 6 MG-platoons), later in may 1918 Gebirgs-Regiment (2 bataillons, each had 3 companies, 1 MW-company, 1 signal-company and 1 infantry-gun-.company) The regiment was under command of XIV.Res.Korps., leader Oberstleutnant Sproesser (IR125) The regiment: I.Bataillon "Stochdorp" (1., 2., 3. comp., 1 MG-comp and Inf.Gun-comp.) II.Bataillon "Roller" (4., 5., 6. comp.2.MG-comp., MW-comp.) III.Bataillon "Grau" (Staff, 3.MG.comp and signal-comp.) Together 27 officers, 543 NCOs and soldiers I have a small booklet about uniforms in Baden-Württemberg ("Kleine Uniformkunde von Baden-Württemberg", written by Karl Hermann Freiherr v. Brand). He writes: The Gebirgsschützen recieved tunics with breast-pockets green collar-patches with a green "S". NCOs and simple soldiers didn´t have shoulder-straps, but so called "shoulder-bulges" (Schulterwülste), in remembrance to the old dissolved in 1871 württemberg Jäger-Bataillons. When the company became the bataillon, the S upon the collar was replaced by a button with the company-number. Officers had a "crown-button". Maybe this man is an officers-aspirant??? The photo must be taken after the campaign of Rumania. Until then they only had the Gebirgsmütze (as a difference to the austrian mountain-troops). The tschako came after the campaign of Rumania.

Hi Eva! I know the towns you used to be very well. I live in Essen... It´s good place for collectors, because there are a lot of expos in Belgium and the largest german one in Kassel. Both are max 2hrs away. It´s really sad, that you can´t get the na m eof the soldier. It would be much easies to find out something. Is it possible for you to make a close-up of the shoulder strap of the picture in #9, please? Or can you read anything?

Hello! No, 100% no Kürassier. There only were four regiments with a chiffre on the shoulder straps. 1. WR 2. L 6. Cyrillic N 8. GR V Each chiffre had a crown above. Here we have a latin number, so Stabsordonnanz

Hello Eva! That´s very intersting, reading woman´s point of view about unifoms. Great! I agre with you with the old uniforms. They are much more beautiful than the simple camouflage uniforms of our days. Well, a beer in Germany would be fine. We have so many of them, we could sell it... Unfortunately I can´t identify the medal. I´m not s specialist in medals. Maybe the other friends here could help. Can you recognize antyhing upon the shoulder strap of the second photo?

Hello Eva! I think it´s great, you are interesting in uniforms. That´s not usual for a woman! Could you please make a close-up of his medal? In peacetime there were not too much soldiers of this branch. Each commanding general of an army-corps had an NCO-Stabsordonnanz, the other generals of brigades and divisions had just a corporal. So each army-corps only had roundabout 12 Stabsordonnanzen. In wartime they were transfered to the mounted staff-guards of the divisions. If a commanding-general had only one single NCO-Stabsordonnanz ("Stabsordonnanz-Unteroffizier"), we might to know, when the pic was taken. I think, it´s a late photo, because his uniform changed (the front-braids are missing), probably 1910 or later. The commanding generals of the VII.Army-corps (If it is a VII upon the shoulder straps!) were: 11.8.1909-16.9.1914: Gen.d.Kav. Karl v. Einem, gen. Rothmaler 16.9.1914-29.6.1915: Gen.d.Inf. Eberhard v. Claer 29.6.1915-6.8.1918: Gen.d.Inf. Hermann v. Francois 6.7.1918-18.1.1919: Generalleutnant Wilhelm v. Woyna 18.1.1919-30.9.1919: Generalleutnant Oskar Freiherr v. Watter

Hello! I haven´t seen a flag like that before. Please have a look here: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Flaggen_des_Deutschen_Kaiserreichs

Hello Eva! Thanks for the close-up! That makes it clearer! He doesn´t have a button upon his collar, but braids, so his rank is Unteroffizier (the lowest NCO rank). His shoulder boards have latin numbers. I can´t recognize them, maybe a VII. So he is a Stabsordonnnaz (staff-orderly? I don´t know the english term). Anyway, he wears the number of his army-corps. If it is a VII, he served with the seventh army-corps in Westphalia (where I live too...). The uniform was grey-green with yellow braids. I´m not sure with the sabre.Probably he wears a prussian cavalry-sword (Kavalleriedegen). I attached another photo of a Stabsordonnanz to compare (note: the braids on the front of the tunic were left-out later. So your photo must be taken after 1910. Is there an indicator, where the pic was taken?

Hello Eva! It´s not austrian. It´s a german one. I´m not sure with the unit. Could you please make a close-up of the shoulder straps and the sabre?

Hello Peter! The Rangliste of 1899 says: Inspektion der Kriegsschulen (Berlin) Studien-Kommission (Berlin) Kriegschulen: *Potsdam *Glogau *Neiße *Engers *Cassel *Hannover *Anklam *Metz *Danzig *Hersfeld Unfortunately I don´t have an idea for EVA

Very nice things! Chapeau!!! Here I have a picture with that helmet (unfortunately in the background)

push-up... No ideas, gents?

Kiffin Rockwell was the first american fighter, who was shot down in the first world war. He volunteered to the frrench air force. He died september, 23, 1916. Does someone know, who shot him down? It was a german two-manned reccon airplane. But I couldn´t find out their names. Thank you very much in advance

Hello dante! No idea because of the late EKI. But I have seen a few MPs like this. That was very possible. Because of Tangermünde, I didn´t want to be a teacher... , but there was an Angermünde too. Two different towns. But Tangermünde fits perferctly to the IV.AK

Hi Chris! Very nice photo!!! I haven´t seen that before! Great!!! MW-Kp. 312 (set up 5.10.15, under command of 12.Ldw.Div., later 7th Cav.Div.) constisted of: schwere MW-Abtl. 23 2/3 mittlerer MW-Abtl. 151 leichte MW-Abtl. 233 and 234

Hello dante! Very nice one!!!! Inf.Rgt.17 became in 1919 Reichswehr-Schützen-Rgt.7. That´s right. In the Freikorps-period, it belonged to the Freiwilligen-Landesschützen-Korps (Roeder). The II.Btl./RW-Schtz.Rgt.7 came from Halberstadt (Brigade 4 Magdeburg). The battle is not Angermünde, but Tangermünde (near Stendal). That fits to the Brigade 4

Hi Marcin! I only know Generalmajor a.D. Freiherr v. Pfetten-Arnbach. In wartime, he was commander of the "Munitions-Kolonnen- und Trains 2"