The Prussian

Hi Ian! Yes, that was my first thought too. But a friend of mine say, he´d see a double-headed eagle

Hello! Some examples... Post-war with unknown MG-Ss badge. 4th bavarian Reichswehr Inf.Rgt.46 : Probably Inf.Rgt. I Insterburg: MG-Ss-Abt.2: MG-Ss-Abt.2: MG-Ss-Abt.11: unknown: MG-Ss-Trupp 197: Probably no Scharfschütze, but interesting...: unknown: unknown: saxon Waffenmeister-Gehilfe (Armourer Assistant), note the crossed rifles: Freikorps Pfeffer: A zoom of photo 1. I can read "Sch"

Hello Ian! Thanks a lot! I´m not sure, the cockade seems too big for a german one. But generally I agree with you

Hello! Is someone able to ID this uniform? I haven´t seen such an uniform before. The armband seems to show a double-headed-eagle. So maybe Austria or Russia? The reverse is absolutly blank Thanks a lot! Now it´s shown twice... I think I clicked the wrong button...

Here´s another example. Bav. 16th. Inf.Rgt.

Hello ArHo! A rare photo!!!!! He wears the so-called "Friedensrock"! Grey tunic with red cuffs and collars and white shoulder straps! To me it´s Inf.Rgt.106 from Leipzig.

The casualty lists mentions him in bavarian 3rd Inf.Rgt. But I couldn´t find him in the regimental history. I also couldn´t find him in the Red Cross lists of POWs...

Was it him? http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/8240394

Hello! Yes, it´s a MG08/15. It´s probably an inofficial badge. I´ve seen it a few times before. A rare photo! Congrats!

With a little bit of phantasy Großpapa is really possible... It´s a shame, that the "young" germans like me (52) didn´t learn the old scripts in school...

Hello! Where are the p´s in papa? I can read Gruß?????, Are the more infos upon the reverse?

Hello! Heres is Korps Kühne, an overview of my collection and an article I wrote for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Heereskunde Verbandsabzeichen.pdf

Of course, it is. Good painting! Never mind the few mistakes

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This one??

Hello! To me it´s really a Festungsbau-Offizier: http://www.kammerbulle.de/html/namenszuge.html (scroll down to "Festungsbau-Offizier) The ribbon probably is red or green with dark stripes (maybe yellow stripes - they appear dark!) Maybe Friedrich-Kreuz für Kämpfer from Anhalt https://www.ehrenzeichen-orden.de/deutsche-staaten/friedrich-kreuz-anhalt-1914.html or Militär-Verdienst-Medaille Lippe-Detmold https://www.ehrenzeichen-orden.de/deutsche-staaten/militar-verdienstmedaille-mit-schwertern-1914-2-pragung.html Maybe he served in a bavarian unit and he was not bavarian born or bavarian citizen!

Hi Laurentius! Thanks a lot for the photos. The sabre seems to be an artillery -sabre. Black capband is ok for artillery. The belt was worn by mounted troops. That fits to artillery. Also the black pipings. BUT we have the problem with the field-artillery shoulder boards and the foot-artillery cuffs... The red collar-patches don´t make sense to me. Unfortunately I can´t say more. An uniform like this did not exist. Here you see the artillery fieldgrey uniforms:

Hi Laurentius! Now we have a problem... I also see a 5 with a grenade. Feldartillerie. BUT: FAR5 was a silesian unit. Fifth Army Corps. In peace time they had yellow shoulder-straps, so on this 07/10 tunic should be seen: grey shoulder-straps with yellow pipings. Or should it be officer boards? But then too, the pipings might be yellow. And Feldartillerie hat swedish cuffs. Swedish cuffs: Two buttons horinzotal Brandenburg cuffs: Three buttons vertical. What about the red patch at the collar? Upon a 07/10 tunic those red patches didn´t exist. They were worn upon a Litewka. Do you have close-up please? Can you also please show the sword? I assume, the painter used "artistic license"... There is something wrong... Here is a Lieutenant of FAR600 with Litewka and black collar patches:

Do you have a close-up of the shoulder boards, please?

Hello! Because of the brandenburg cuffs it will be Footartillery. The ranklist of Honour mentions a Leutnant Witte, later Oberleutnant a.D.

Thanks a lot!

Great! I think there ain´t no regimental history or a rank list of that period available? I ask because I'm confused. The regiment was in Rochefort since 1919 and engaged in Morroco in 1925. I didn't find anything about Algeria

Thanks a lot, matey! But you agree with the unit?

Oh, that´s interesting. So you would say, the pic was taken around 1926?

Hello! Thanks a lot! I didn´t know, when the new helmet was introduced! When was it exactly? 3rd RIC was in Rochefort from 1919-1939 (except 1925 Morocco). So am I right, when I say, they had a manoeuvre in the 20s in Algeria?