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Hello Tony! Thank you for your help. I didn´t know the site, but unfortunately I only have found informations about the 2nd WW. I must say, that I´ve forgot to say, that I´m looking for infos about the WWI

Hello gentlemen! I´ve just recieved this nice Edelweiss. Its max. dimension are 3,8mm But what do the letters mean? If I read ATV, it doesn´t make any sense to me. If I read AVT, I assume "Alpen-Verein-Tirol" What do you think, please?

Hello gentlemen! I´ve just recieved this nice Edelweiss. max dimension is 3,8mm. I´m not sure what the letters mean. If I read ATV, it doesn´t make any sense to me If I read AVT, I assume "Alpen-Verein-Tirol" What do you think, please?

Hello gentlemen! Where can I find a book or a list about the organization, battle order,structures, numbers and names of the R.T.C. and all their tanks, please?

No. Impossible, Joe. Cadet schools had guard Litzen. NCO pre-schools had polish cuffs and NCO schools had brandenburg ones. And all of them didin´t had a bright cap band like this one on this photo

Hello Herbert! This photo is not artillery. The he should have had a black cap band. This one is too bright. It´s also too bright for infantry, so I assume he wears the unifirm of a dragoon. There were four dragoon regiments in the north (IX and X army corps.) 16, 17, 18, 19. 177 and 18 had guard litzen, 19 had a black colour, so maybe he belonged to the 16th regiment. (colour yellow)

To not fall into oblivion... I want to show you my latest one. Not a real Edelweiss, but a nice original veteran pin.

That´s right, mates! The Btl. Rohr came to Mouzon by ordre of the 5th army, 1st juin 1916. They took place on the left riverside of the Meuse near Mouzon. The lorry´s plate shows us a V. That fits for 5th army

Hi Charles. Yes, I have the new edition (two volumes)

Hi Chris! I agree with the "four". Unfortunately I don´t have any idea for that....

That´s like mine in thread #89. But do we know, that the first owner did recieve it from the "box"? Some later Alpenkorps members bought themselves an Edelweiß, knowing they don´t have the permission to wear...

Could he be: Oberleutnant Edler v. Graeve (Gren.Rgt.110), later Hautpmann a.D.?

Hello Chris! Thanks for showing this very ineresting thing! Well, there are different reasons to call someone "Sturmgrenadier". The words "Sturm-Gemeiner" or "Sturm-Infanterist" don´t sound good in german language. But for the main reason, we have to look at a Sturmbataillon. The Sturmbataillon 2 existed of: One staff ; one Sturmkompanie, one MG-Kompanie and one MW-Kompanie. So I think, that Sturm-Grenadier Funk belonged to the Sturmkompanie of the bataillon.

and the last one...

the next:

Like I promissed you, here my three Edelweiss badges. Note the different number of pollens and the stamp of the D.OE.AV.

I am still looking for informations about the "real" Edelweiss, worn by the Alpenkorps. On different photos we´ve seen different ones. We have ones with 3 large and 3 small pollens, ones with 7 pollens. I´ve read in a Zeitschrift für Heereskunde by a veteran, that some Edelweiss´ had a stamp "DAK". I haven´t seen that one before. I assume, he had seen a stamp. Maybe DAV or D.OE.AV. Fact is, the 1st one was given to Krafft v. Dellmensingen. After him the bav. LIR had recieved theirs. And after that, the 20.000 in that "box" arrived. Right now I think, the austrians did collect 20.000 Edelweiss, and they didin´t care about wich pattern it was! The veteran said, the different ones were worn at the same time. Other sources said, that they might be 4cm. That are all the facts I have. Next week I will show my three Edelweis I have.

Hello gentlemen! Please have a look at this photo. The card is unwritten and unstamped. Can one ID the PLM-officer next to His Majesty? Note the crown at the car´s door. In which case this sign was used please? Maybe imperial car-pool? In the background left, I think, it´s v. Mackensen. The soldier with the number on the helmet-cover wears a 35? (probably a 358 for Inf.Rgt.358) Thank you very much in advance

I´m not quite sure, but I think those Vereinslazerette were in the operations-areas too.

Helo! A wonderful photo!!!!! Brilliant!!!! BTW: The tank attack of the 21.march 1918 was the first german tank attack! Concerned units was only the Sturm-Panzerkraftwagen-Abteilung 1 under Hauptmann Greiff. The tanks were: 501 Gretchen (Hauptmann Greiff) 502 (no name) (Leutnant Vize) 505 Baden I (Leutnant Voss) 506 Mephisto (Oberleutnant Skopnik) 507 Cyklop (Leutnant Bartens and Leutnant Vietze) Baden I didn´t reach the battleground, he stuck. Cyklop broke down and was left behind, 502 also broke down. So you tank could be Gretchen (501) or Mephisto (506). Gretchen stayed in the troop after armistice, and Mephisto today is in Queensland (Australia) to wait for your visit!!!! In that battle the Abteilung 1 were under command of the 36.Inf.Div. (XVII.AK). Participated infantry units: IR 128,Inf.Rgt.175, Sturmbataillon 5 (Rohr), 2.Abt./Feldart.Rgt.36, flame-throwers of the Gardereserve-Pionier-Rgt.

Hello! Vereinslazerett. There were 85 Vereinslazarett-Züge. This hospitals recieved their equipment and were run by civilian organisations or the communes where they used to be.

Hello! I´d say, this is Landwehr-Inspektion. They had the first letter of the city of origin on their shoulder boards. I can´t see, which letter it is here. But here is a list: B: Berlin, Breslau, Bromberg C: Cöln, Chemnitz K: Karlsruhe E: Essen, Erfurt M: Metz, Mülhausen N: Nürnberg J: Insterburg H: Halle G: Graudenz A: Allenstein, Altona S: Straßburg H: Hannover D: Dortmund, Dresden, Düsseldorf L: Landau P: Posen

And his photo. Unfortunately I can´t recognize the shoulder boards

Hello gentlemen! I am still looking for informations about my grand-uncle Hugo Harhaus Because my family was bombed-out in WWII, I only have very rare informations about him. Born in Essen (23. april 1891), he moved to Posen in 1908, when he became a teacher. He volunteered 1st august and stayed in the army until 1st january 1919. Then he came back to Essen, where he used to be a teacher again. In april 1916 he became Leutnant der Reserve (he stepped directly from the rank of a Vizefeldwebel!) in the Inf.Rgt.155. This info I have found in the Militär-Wochenblatt Nr.62/1916. I have the regimental history of the IR155. There I found his name in a long, long list of reserve officers, who served in that regiment. But I couldn´t find his agency (what he did in the regiment). I also have a personal sheet of a teachers association, where I could read, he served in IR 155 AND IR146. Unfortunately in the regimental history of IR 146 he was not recorded. In the "Deutsche Verlustliste from 4. july 1917", I found, that he was light injured by accident. Unfortunately no unit was recorded. Does someone of you has informations about him, especially, where he served after his time at IR155? Thank you very much in advance. I enclosed the sheet of paper of the teacher association (note #9 "Militärverhältnis") and the only photo of him left remained.