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    The Prussian

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    1. Bonjour Joel!

       

      I´ve got the following informations:

      Born 26.9.59, died 3.7.36

       

      18.10.03-27.1.08: Commander 1.Garde-Feldartillerie-Regiment

      27.1.08-1.10.13: Commander 1.Garde-Feldartillerie-Brigade

      4.9.13-1.9.16: Commander 36.Infanterie-Division

      31.8.16-8.3.17: Commanding General Gen.Kdo. z.b.V.53

      8.3.17-23.11.17: Commanding General XXV.Reserve-Korps

      23.11.17-15.12.18: Commanding General VI.Armee-Korps

    2. Hello!

      According to the document of the China-Medal:

      The signature is from Oberst v. Wrochem.

      Ranklist 1901: Oberstleutnant (22.5.99) in 6th Eastasian Infantry Regiment

      Ranklist 1902: Oberst (16.6.01) Commander of Inf.Rgt.Nr.43

      So he was "Transportführer" between his duty in China and his service in IR43!

      Before he was in China, he was in the staff of Inf.Rgt.20

    3. Hello!

      I´d like to know if it´ s possible to "baptize" this french colonel?

      We have the following facts:

       

      1) The photo studio did exist from 1896.

       

      2) He wears:

      a) Officers cross of the Legion of Honour

      b) 1901 China expedition commemorative medal

      c) Colonial Medal

      d) Royal order of Cambodia

      e) Commander cross, order of Nichan el-Anouar

       

      3) The photo shows him as a regimental commander (Colonel) in Infantry Regiment N°16 in St.Étienne

       

      4) Because of the China medal, the photo must have been taken after 1901.

       

      5) The commanders of that regiment from 1901-1910 were:

      1901: Jules Pierre Ernest De Jarnac
      1902-1906: Louis Joseph Paul Albert Carrier
      1907-1908: Joseph Arthur Ernst
      1909: ?
      1910: Joseph Nicolas Edmond Vaimbois

      All of these officers were officers of the Legion of Honour

       

      Do we have a match???

      Thanks a lot in advance!

       

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    4. Hello Gordon!

       

      Another interesting book about austrain cap-badges is:

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      Published 1991 in Ljubljana (Slovenia) in german/english language. There are no descriptions of the badges, but I think more then a thousand badges are shown! 282 pages.

      The book is very rare, but I also have a pdf (24MB) of it, unfortunately in a lower quality.

      You´ll find all austrian badges according to each branch including remembrance-badges, front-badges, christmas-badges and cloth unit-number-patches.

       

      By the way, my collection raised during the last years.

      Edelweiß-badges:

       

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      Austrian/german cap-badges (austrians only, if germans could have worn them..)

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    5. Hello!

      The man was Pr.Lt. Carl Muskewitz.

      Ranklist 1866/67: 4. Rheinisches Landwehr-Regiment Nr.30, 1. Bataillon in Trier, Train.

      The commanding General of VIII. Corps was General d.Inf. Herwarth v. Bittenfeld

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      Probably he did a good job in 1866, because four years later, in the Iron Cross list of 1870/71, he received the Iron Cross 2nd class in the same duty! Here his rank was already Rittmeister:

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      In ranklist 1870/71 he was listed as Rittmeister in 8. Landwehr-Regiment Nr.70, 1.Bataillon in Trier. In 1872 he left the army.

      His first ranklist-entry was 1860, he used to be Sec.Lt. in 1. Rheinisches Landwehr-Regiment, 1. Bataillon, Aachen, Train.

      That means he never was an active officer. He served as a one-year-volunteer in 1859, promoted to Sec.Lt. and then he served as an officer of the Reserve, later officer of the Landwehr.

    6. Hello!

      I don´t know anything about the medal, but Groos was captain of the Light Cruiser "Hamburg" from Jan.26 -June 27.

      The ship left Hamburg Feb.2, 1926. Her journey was:

      Cuxhaven - British Channel - Biscaya - Pontvedra - Funchal - St.Vincent - Las Palmas - West-India - Central-America - Panama-Channel - Westcoast of Central- and North America - San Francisco - Pacific Ocean - Honolulu - Japan - Philippines - several ports of Indonesia - Colombo - Suez-Channel - several ports in the Mediterranean Sea* - Vigo - back to Germany.

      * probably a port in Greek too. Maybe that is the missing link to the medal?

      https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Groos

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Hamburg

    7. Hello!

      Alexander Gause.

      The saxon ranklist 1914 shows him as Hauptmann (20.4.06) in 5th comp./Inf.Rgt.178.

      According to the ranklist 1918 he promoted to Major August 19, 1914 in the same regiment.

      His last duty was commander of Ersatz-Infanterie-Regiment Nr.32.

      He left the army by the end of war as Oberstleutnant a.D.

      No entry in the post-war ranklists.

    8. IF he has a swedish medal, I´ve found something...

      The german casualty lists mention a Hauptmann der Reserve Joseph POUSSETTE

      Born in Spanga, Stockholm, Sweden, served with Inf.Rgt.92

      http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/4040405

      http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/7651012

      From the 92th regimental officers list:

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      Poussette, Josef, born in Spanga (Sweden), swedish Hauptmann d.Res.

       

      CHECK THIS OUT:

      https://slakthistoria.se/livet-forr/livsode/farmors-kusin-stred-i-persien

       

      In the winter of 1915-16, attended the Joseph Pousette of the conflict, as was the establishment of the people's struggle for freedom, or ”holy war.” He was leading a military unit, composed of the constabulary, members of the national party as well as the professionals come out in the past. The mixed team was guerilla warfare against the Russian elite, which had both cavalry and artillery. The fighting that took place to the north and to the south of the road Kazvin-Hamadan-Kermanshah-the united states, was, however, at the end of Pousettes the strength to go into the mesopotamiskt area. From there it travelled to the swedes, to the city of Berlin. The establishment of the adventure was over.

      Back in a German uniform

      Also, Gustav Edwall made his way to Germany for a short stay in Sweden. He was sent back to the far East, in the German uniform, and was rewarded later with the iron cross for bravery in the field. Pousette fought for Germany in both the eastern and the western front. In 1917, he was imprisoned by the british in the region of Ypres, and was first released in August of 1919.

      Isabel Edwall, which is followed by Germany, and served as an interpreter, and she was multi-lingual and is fluent in French, Turkish, Arabic, and Persian, but he is also, since English, German, French, Italian, and English. After the end of the war in 1918, king Gustav of passbyrån at the Swedish legation in Berlin, germany. The couple's son, Nils, was born in 1918, the Swedish king worked for the Swedish Electrolux AB in the German capital.

      When it is no longer permitted for foreigners to work in Germany, and returned to king Gustav, to Sweden. Dating back to 1930, he served as PRESIDENT of the Hälsingborg Maltbolag, and in the company of the Peace. Five years later, he died.

      Was in the army

      After the first world war, Joseph Pousette rejoined the army as a first lieutenant in the then 23, in Östersund, sweden. In 1926, he was the captain level, and in 1934, he became a major. Over the years, in 1923, 1929, and in 1930, he was assigned to monitor the training of the German army. Then, in 1925, he was married to Helene Edwall, but the couple had no children. Joseph died in the 1950s.

       

      If the photo is for sale, please let me know...😉

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