The Prussian

Hello gentlemen! I own a few british medals (1914- 15 star, war medal 1914-1918 and the british victory medal) All are named, but I can´t buy the medal chart at the national achives, because they don´t accept bank transfer or paypal. I don´t have any credit cards. I don´t need too much informations. The important thing for me is the bataillon, in which the soldiers had served. The names are: 20208 Private C. Bettles, Northamptonshire Regiment 68445 Gunner E.W. Clarke, Royal Artillery 41658 Bombardier J.P. Taudy, Royal Field Artillery B-2990 Private B. Evans, Rifle Brigade Of course, I´ll pay all expenses. I´d be very grateful, if someone could help me.

Wonderful stuff!!!! I´ve never seen that before!!!!!! Here I have a nice MW Photo. Unfortunately I can´t recognize the number on the patch. SMW (schwere Minenwerfer), maybe a 36?

Hello! I have recieved this wondeful old one from the 1.Garde-Regiment zu Fuß. Signed by Oberst v. Boehn http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oktavio_Philipp_von_Boehn

Well, friends, I think, we put it on the point, when Chris said, " Best Regiment can be synonammous with "My favorite regiment..." :-) and Irish Gunner said: It does make for good discussion over Scotch and cigars though, does't it? At last, none of us was participated in the battles. Unfortunately I can´t discuss about Scotch and cigars, but wine and cheese that is ok for me...

A nice photo, Chris! I have a similar one of the RIR83

Can one rank a unit? I don´t think, it´s that easy. Mountain units are specialists. Are they better than a unit, who fought in the heat of Macedonia or in Asia? It also depends on the enemy. The stronger the enemy, the stronger the own forces... I don´t like the american ranks in the history of the 251 divisions, becaus the americans came too late into the theatre to have a good overview of the german forces. To say, which one was the best unit, we might know the casualty lists, the number of decorations, and the number of successfully battles. I recommend a brilliant book about these theme (but it´s about 39-45): Martin van Creveld "Fighting power - German and U.S. army perormance 1939-1945" (Greenwood press, 1982 ; in german language Ares Verlag 2005 und 2009)

Hello Mervyn. That could be a reason, yes. But because of those books are not quite cheap, I´m looking for "the perfect book". I don´t need too much old photographies, I´d rather bee looking for a book with many tablets, uniform charts like it is i the fieldgrey book from Dr. Kraus.

Hello Patrick! Thank you very much! I will have a look for the first one

again... Not a single book available?

Do you know whic country your photo was taken?

It seemed to be a needle in a haystack... Do you have more informations? A unit and a date?

Thank you very much for your help! It helped a lot!!!

Ahja, vielen Dank. Das erste habe ich noch nicht gesehen. Ist aber wohl was ziviles. Das zweite gab erst nach dem Anschluß 1938. Bis 1938 waren der dt. und der öster. Alpenverein zusammen geschlossen als DÖAV. Also auch zivil

Hallo Rudi! Logo, Ruhrpott! Bin doch der Ruhrpottpreuße ausm Feldgrau... Du, ich meinte eigentlich das einzelne Edelweiß über den beiden Eks... ;)

Moin Rudi! Gratuliere! Ein Wahnsinnskonvolut! Tust Du mir einen kleinen Gefallen? Kannst Du bitte mal das Edelweiß aus #25 genau zeigen? Ich habe auch noch ein Buch über einen Soldaten, der in mehreren Armeen gedient hat. Da Buch heißt "Ein Soldatenleben" (Barett-Verlag 1988) von Henryk Szarek. Der gebürtige Pole bekam 1944 die dt. Uniform verpaßt (wohl weniger offiziell, aber er trug sie). Nach dem Einmarsch der Russen diente er kurz in der poln. Armee. Als die Zeiten schlimmer wurden, flüchtete er in den Westen und schloß sich der poln. Exilarmee in Norditalien an. Nach dessen Auflösung meldete sich zum 1.BEP (1.Bataillon Étranger Parachutiste), mit dem er mehrere Jahre in Indochina war. Zu guter letzt diente er nach seiner Entlassung aus der Legion noch bei den US Special Forces (10.Special Forces Group) Bad Tölz. Da Buch ist kurzweilig geschrieben und mit vielen Bildern unterlegt.

Hello gentlemen! Could you please tell, which one is the very best book about british uniforms, insignias, badges etc. of the first world war? Thanks a lot in advance!

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Hello gentlemen! Thank you for yor opinins. I´m not sure, if my one is an collar badge, because of its size. It´s 5cm. I´drather be saying, it´s another manufacturer. Here are bigger scans

Hi Hardinge! Well, afte I wrote the list, I´ ve seen that site too... It´s brilliant one! Thanx for the link!

Gude Jens! Kann wirklich sen! Die hervorstehenden Knochen über den Augenbrauen sprchen dafür. Vielen Dank!!!

any opinions to this one, please?

up again...

I stil need the ID of the PLM owner, please

No ideas? Up with the thread...

Hi Chris! Glad to see you here! Hope you´ll have a lot of fun here. See you next time in Gelsenkirchen Andreas