The Prussian

Hello Dante! Very nice MP! Is Noskes signature original? This Lt.d.Res. Pieper served with the Garde-Gren.Rgt.Nr.1 (Alexander). After armistice, he probably joined the Freiwilligen-Bataillon Garde Gren.Rgt.1. This volunteer-bataillon was part of the Freiwilligen 3.Garde-Inf.Brig. (Freiw.2.Garde-Inf.Div.) In june 1919 they became the Reichswehr-Brigade 26 Fürstenwalde. The bataillon became I.Btl./Reichswehr-Inf.Rgt.51 and stayed in Fürstenwalde The regiment was active only until october 1919. Then the I.Btl./RW-Inf.Rgt.51 became I.Btl.Fürstenwalde/Reichswehr-Inf.Rgt.30 Cottbus (Reichswehr-Inf.Brig. 15 Berlin) End of july 1920 the bataillon became II.Btl. Berlin/Rw-Inf.Rgt.29 Berlin In october 1920 the brigade 3, brigade 15 and brigade 6 formed the 3.Division of the so-called 100.000 men army and the II.Btl./29 became part of the 9.(preuß.) Inf.Rgt. in Potsdam. In 1921 53 officers went to the Inf.Rgt.3, 5, 8 and 9 Unfortunately the Rangliste of october 1920 doesn´t show an officer named Pieper, so I assume, he left the army not later than summer 1920

Holy crap... That´s a high number! Leichte Mun.Kol.934. Set-up 19.3.1917 through AOK 2 Replacement from Ers.Abt./Feldart.Rgt.62, later Ers.Feldart.Rgt.Jüterbog, later 2.Ers.Abt./Feldart.Rgt.16 Under command of 2.Army, later 7.Army, then I./Res.Feldart.Rgt.47

The regiment was set up 1.6.1916 through the Feldartillerie-Schießschule. Later in july named in Feldart.Rgt.402

Hi IG It´s not an L, it´s a Z. Feldartillerie-Regiment Zossen"

Hi IG! It must be a late photo. Every Fußart.Rgt. had an Ersatz-Bataillon. Since end of 1915, those "Garnisons-Batterien" were added, but they were called "Garnisons-Batterie beim Ers.Ntl. Fußart.Rgt.Nr. #", or "#. Garnisons-Batterie beim Ers.Btl.Fußart.Rgt.#. Since may 1918 they recieved their own numbers. In Prussia numbers 7-28 and in Bavaria 1-6 As far as I know, the Fußart.Garnisons-Batterie 6 was under command of the Gouvernment Lüttich (Liège). Commander was Oberleutnant d.Res. Fries

Ah, yes, I remember! You told me, you wrote Mr. Kraus to turn the sigh in his book... In the book, it looks like an old photo-camera... I´ll be on sky the entire weekend. Call me, when you have time

Thanx again...

Do you have photos of the great war and photos with the same place in our times? I start with Fresnes-en-Woevre. The old photo is from my collection, but the new one if from the net

Thanx Alex! Here a few more

Hello! I´d like to know, for what this insignia (flower?) stands for. Note the bavarian lozenges aside. The plate could start with a V (5th army), IV (4th army) or W (Armee-Abteilung Woyrsch). Thank you very much in advance

Cavalry and staff...

Hi Chip Ah, probably a saxon special! Do you have a photo too? What do you think of skype writing next weekend?

Have you ever seen a searchlight patch? Scheinwerfer-Zug 12 (SZ 12) of the saxon Pi.Btl.12

My Garde-Artillerist is a vintage one. The photos of my relartives were coloured last year... Here are another ones

The patch, of course the patch, Chris! What can you read on the patch and on the shoulder straps please? On my photo, I can´t read anything... Maybe it´s a 56 (schwerer MW-Zug 56) That would be the "Schwerer-MW-Zug 56. Together with the "Mittlerer-MW-Zug168" and "Leichter MW-Zug 282", they built the MW-Kompanie 103 for the 103rd Inf.Div.

Here are my favourites unknown soldier of 1.Garde-Feldart.Rgt. My Grandpa (Feldart.Rgt.43 - sitting) My Grand-Uncle (Lt.d.Res. Inf.Rgt.155)

Hello! I recieved a postcard of the Sturmbataillon 14. Unfortunately no photo, but a stamp. The Feldpost-Nummer 82 fits to Briey (like the picture of the card)

Hello Erik! 136: 4.Lothringsches Inf.Rgt.136 from Straßburg 87: 1.Nassauisches Inf.Rgt. 87 from Mainz The blue one: 1.Westfälisches Husaren-Rgt. 8 from Neuhaus and Paderborn 78; 8.sächsisches Feldart-Rgt. 78 from Wurzen 67: 4.Magdeburgisches Inf.Rgt. 67 from Metz 47: 2.Niederschlesisches Inf.Rgt. 47 from Posen and Schrimm Fußartillerie: from Bavaria 7: Westfälisches Dragoner Rgt. 7 from Saarbrücken

OK, Dank U well"!

Hello Erik! Could we have a better scan to read the abbreviations, please?

Hello Valter! From 1851-1918 the regiment was in the "Maikäferkaserne" in Berlin-Spandau. Probably because of their coloured uniform (red cuffs, white "Litzen", yellow shoulder-straps, brown pipings), they were called "Maikäfer". Friedrich Wilhelm IV, ones, called the regiment "Maikäfer", and since that date, they wer called like that

Very nice collection! Great!!! Here is the short Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeppelin_LZ37

Here we go

Well, Marcin, if there are any words, you don´t understand, don´t be shy to ask. We´ll help you

I assume, it´s not too difficulty to understand it. 60% of the book are numbers like dates or units. 80% are words with understandable roots, like Armee (army), Div. (Division), Korps (corps). In each book are tables of abbreviations. Most of the words are understandable for military research. Some special words of the german army one can´t translate in engish, because it would lose his sense.