The Prussian

Here is a paper with some different tabs KragenLitzen.pdf

Hi Chip! That´s right too, but have you ever seen a photo with a crowned EW dated in war-time? Me, I haven´t seen any photos of them, either war-time, nor post-war. We only know the badge showing in Sonthofen.

Here are some "stalked" EWs. 1) Another "Wehrmacht" (four holes) 2) Poland 3) Bundeswehr (three holes) 4) austrian XIV.Korps Hello dante! Right. The one with the crown is post-war. Probably a memory badge from the Leib-Inf.Rgt.

Hmmm, Chris,,,,it looks to me like a WW2 with a broken stalk... Diametre 4cm?

Correct Chip! That fits together with Zeithain in Saxony

Hello Chip! Saxon Uhlans had white caps! N° 17, 18 and 21 (not on the plate - it came later...) With white Litzen we have 17 or 21

Chip! Right underneath the Edelweiß you see a yardstick. The distance between two numbers is the measure for a length. In this case from 11 up to 14. That means approx 3cm. Oh, my god, am I arrogant... But fortunately you know me and my bad humour, mate!!!!!

Possible, but I´m not too busy with WW2 stuff...

We had a million discussions about the original Edelweiß. The problem is, no-one knows, what was in the box with the 20.000 pieces... The fact is: The Alpenkorps Edelweiß was the same as the Edelweiß worn by the troops of the k.u.k. XIV.Corps (Innsbruck) A blossom, seven pollens, no stalk, punched from sheet iron. ("... aus Eisenblech gestanzte Edelweißblüte mit sieben goldgelben Dolden, ohne Stiel." - source: Die Adjustierung des k.u.k. Heeres 1915-1918, vol. 3: Die feldgraue Uniform, by Hermann Hinterstoisser)

Hello dante! The regiment was belonged generally to the 50.Inf.Div. and 39.Inf.Div. (11.6.16-15.7.16). In both cases the regiment fought at Verdun. We might know the date of his death.

Hi Chris! Normally we could say, "the smaller, the younger". WW1 usually is 4cm, WW2 3cm. What about the material? Magnetically?

Hello! The prison camp should be "Donington-Hall" Maybe the trip on the river was on the River Trent. Please compare the hut: This bad photo was taken in Donington Hall

Hello! I´d like to know, why he did recieve that medal. The S.M.S. Baden didn´t have any actions in Turkey. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Baden

Hi Rick! Yes, I haven´t seen it before. I´m very glad, it was not expensive!

Hello! Hello! Here I have a nice picture of a "Big Bertha" (42cm Mortar M14). Nice to see the fixing or removing of the "wheel-belts"

Yes, dante, but that´s right. Württemberg had cloth peaks. Bavaria the other ones (some kind of plastic)

Hello Lew! A brilliant bar! Very nice! Major Gottschalch promoted to Oberst a.D. at the end of war.

Very nice photos!!!! I´ve seen them before! I see the cocades at the caps side. Probably Württemberg had them aside, because the space between the two front-buttons was too tight

Hi Chris! Thanx for the photo! The head gear... I wonder which one the detachment wore, before the cap-band was introduced...

Unfortunately I can´t see no cocades on the mountain-cap. I wonder why sometimes they were worn at the front, sometimes at both sides

Any ideas about the pennant?

I made a mistake... The detachement was set-up in 1916, BUT they recieved the cap-band in june 1918! So the photo is quiet rare!

Hello! Here we have a real big car! It´s number plate seems to be MK-XIV 88 That means MK = Militär-Kraftwagen (Military vehicle); XIV : XIV army corps. Those MK plates were only used in Germany, not in the field. So we have a car from the staff of the XIV.army corps, probably from a POW camp in Baden. Note the french pow´s including the "Chasseur Alpine" Unforunately I can´t read the pennnat. Something with "5" and "Gruppe"

Here another Württemberg Geb.Rgt. I assume, it´s from the "regimental" era, because of the absence of the "S" at the collar". That only was worn in the early days, when it used to be a company or a bataillon.