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!

2 minutes ago, The Prussian said:

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?

Is it military or maybe a driver fro noble people?

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?

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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?