The Prussian

Salut Thierry!

My grand-uncle served in 2nd MGK (IR146, Armee-Abteilung Scholz) as Lt.d.Res.

If you´re interested in the regimental history, you can order it on pdf for 5€:

https://military-books.lima-city.de/hp23/146.html

(N°1082)

Salut Thierry!

Here are some photos of IR146.

The coloured photo shows my grand-uncle. 1916 he promoted to Lt.d.Res. in IR155, then he came to IR146. With this regiment he was wounded in Macedonia. Unfortunately I don´t know, in which regiment this photo was taken.

Hello!

A very beautiful set!

Because of the battle clasps, we can say, that he must have been in 1st or 2nd army.

During all of those three battles, these units were participated:

1.Army:

4th Inf.Brig. (Gren.Rgt.5, Füs.Rgt.33, Ldw.Rgt.5, Ldw.Rgt.45)

3./Drag.Rgt.10

6./Feldart.Rgt.1

VII.Army-corps

2.Army:

18th Inf.Div. (without II./GR11)

I./Füs.Rgt.36

parts of Jg.Btl.9

parts of hess. Pio.Kp.,

Hauptmann Zander 1871 was Pr.Lt. in Res.Ldw.Btl. Magdeburg 36 (IV.Army-corps)

Hi Nick!

Thanks a lot in advance!

Hello Nick!

Did you have the pins made in the UK?
We at the Feldgrau Forum are also planning to have such pins made.
Could you recommend a company?
Thank you very much!

Of course, I think so. I´ve seen a few Sturmtrupp-badges in austrian books. No idea, if they were made in Austria or Germany.

Well, that´s a very unique thread... There ain´t too much photos with those badges. Even in books most of them are wrong-described...

Hi Jürgen!

That´s ok.

I can´t recommend FB, I hate it. For informations you better should look for a good forum like this one or our Feldgrau Forum in germany.

Hi Jürgen!

You wrote that you didn´t know, that is was my photo..

In the post I wrote, the photo is from my collection.

Well, I didn´t know, that my photo was shown at pinterest. That´s why I hate all those pages. Pinterest, alamy and all the crap. They steal photos from the net, some publishers uses them for their books and earn money with our photos.

Well, my fault was, that I didn´t use a copy-protection...

Hi Jürgen!

Wouldn´t it be kind, if you would ask me, before you post my photo at Facebook?

A friend of mine showed me the attached post...

Because I hate Facebook, I´m not amused... Photos in GMIC should remain in GMIC

Hi Jürgen!

Well, we can´t say, which badges were worn in an unusual way... Some badges or patches were worn 14/18, even they were forbidden...

Here is something from my collection:

Bavarian mine-sweeper:

Flammenwerfer:

Saxon searchlight members:

Meldegänger (Res.Inf.Rgt.82)

And a couple of hand-grenade-launchers

Hello Jürgen!

The only official metal badges were Edelweiß and Karpathenkorps. The rest were unofficial ones.

Maybe there were some for Stormtroopers, but I haven´t seen some. Most of them were Freikorps badges.

Your picture shows different cloth badges. The skullhead was for Flammenwerfer (official) and crown with the W was for Sturmbataillon 5 (the only official one).

Hi Jürgen!

That´s not strange... Bavaria and Austria had a lot of commercial connections. Before, during and after the war.

A catalogue would be hard to find. Maybe in several ones about austrians cap badges?

8 hours ago, JohanH said:

My intention of mentioning the customs fee was not in any way negative. I only meant it as information. 

Like me!

4 hours ago, Jurgen Fritz said:

 

Yes... But it seems to be an italian magazine...

The word "Sturmtruppen" was well-known in germany, but it was never used for official units. it was just a collective term for all "Sturm"-units like Abteilungen (detachments), bataillon or companies.

IF germany had produced such a badge, it would be familiar to the unit, like "Sturmbataillon Nr.5 Rohr"

Very kind words, Nick!
Thank you very much!
You can not help the fees that are incurred in each country. With the one more, with the other less. But I think for the quality of the pin it is still cheap!
I think about whether we should also have such a pin made in our Feldgrau forum!

Hello Juergen!

I´ve never seen such a badge on german uniforms and have never read about it according to german uniforms.

I assume it´s a badge, made in Germany for austrian troops.

Te meaning "Sturmtruppen" was usually used by k.u.k. troops and not by germans.

Hello!
Right. The customs duties amounted to 1,44€.
DHL has laid out the money and charges 6,00€ for this service. Flat rate, no matter what the value of the goods.
I can avoid the 6€ if I register with customs as a "self-customer". Then I get the package but not sent home, but must pick it up at customs. In my case, that would be 26km there and back plus a day of vacation, because the officials are only open from 7:30 to 12:30.
So there rather the 6€...

Hello Nick!

Mine has arrived today! Thank you very much!

Hi Michael!

The chevrons indicate his front-line presence. The first one (at the bottom) stands for one year, each other for six months.

He has seven chevrons, that means he has four years front-experience.

If the chevrons were upon the right arm, they would stand for wounds he suffered.

By the way... we talked about the six-star generals in the FL Forum...

Hello!

I´ve got the blue one. If I order a new one,do I receive a green one?

Hi Tony!

And you received your Patron-badge already...

Hello!

I just payed yesterday. I think the Patron-badge will appear the next days.

That was not my translation... It was the internet translator...😁

Hello!

Is there anything on the reverse?