The Prussian

Hi Chip!

Don´t forget that many infantry units also had swedish cuffs, according to the simplifying of the uniforms. The black visor seems to me much more black than the capband.

Here I have two pioneer examples with black capbands and a photo of infantrists with swedish cuffs (IR 125)

I was not sure because of the capband. It doesn´t seem to be black to me, but because he wears an IOD, it might be Pio.Btl.11.

Another possibility is Res.Inf.Rgt.11 in a simplified uniform

Hello Christer!

Did you check his name? He was born in the belgium capotal. Maybe his father was a higher diplomat?

Hello blueman!

It´s not german! Domine Dirige Nos (Oh, Lord, direct us), is the motto of the city of London.

I don´t know too much about english units, but probably the 15 indicates the

15th (Service) Bataillon (1st London Welsh)

Raised in London on 20.10.1914

5.12.1914 to Llandudno and 128th Brigade, 43rd Division.

Subsequent record same as 14th Bataillon, but disbanded in France in 27.2.1918.

But this is just a guess...

Another sad photo. Big Berta with a barrel burst. Unfortunaley I couldn´t find out, which unit it was. There were a couple of barrel-bursts of the 42cm

I´d like to show you a another big one:

It´s a heavy coast-mortar 305mm, L/17 ("schwere Küstenmörser i.R.") - i.R. means "in Radlafette" (wheel-mount - I don´t know if this is the right english translation...)

This one is a rare photo, because from this gun only ONE single gun was built in 1912 by Krupp. It was used by the "Schwere-Küstenmörser-Batterie Nr.6" (6th army).

Calibre: 305mm

Weight: 24.500kg

Weight of the shell: 333kg

Range: 11,7km

Moved by tractor in two parts

Hi IG!

May I help you too?

Well, you´re right with Fußart.Rgt.11. The "black-white-striped" pipings indicates him as a prussian Einjährig-Freiwilliger (One-year-volunteer)

Finally I got a Soldbuch with the item "ist berechtigt, daß Edelweißabzeichen zu tragen"

You´ll find it in 7)

I got this Soldbuch together with the Militärpaß and a Wehrpaß. He served with the Infantry-Leib-Regiment. Unfortunately the paper with the battles is unreadable.

Of course, you´re right! Thanks for the correction! I´m glad in this case only the number counts...

Here are my Verdun medals

According to a British General Staff publication in February 1918, "Foot Artillery; Index to the German Forces in the Field",

Fußartillerie-Regiment Nr. 25/I.Bataillon - with three batteries, including 1. Battarie, was in the Argonne Sector as of 2 Nov 1917. The battery reportedly had 4 15cm howitzers.

My guess would be that the howitzers were 15cm schweres Feldhaubitze M13

That's about as much as I can give you... I'd try to find more about the 49. RD as the next step. Maybe the Prussian or Chip have some references that I do not have...they know quite a bit on the topic.

Hello IG!

In 1918 the I./25 consisted of the the companies 1, 2 and 4

They were equipped with:

1. and 2. company: schwere Feldhaubitze 13

4.company: 10cm canon M04

Here are the guns:

Chip. Incomplete? What is missing?

Now it makes sense...

I´m not sure. You´re right, that plenty of units did wear ther 07/10 late, but mostly infantry units in combat zones did rfecieve the simplified or the M15 quiet quickly.

Nice picture!

Does he wear a hessian cocarde?

But I can´t recognize a hessian buckle...

To me he wears a red-white-red cocarde and white shoulder board-pipings (I., II., IX, X.AK) , so he served with the Inf.Rgt. 75 Bremen. (17.Inf.Div.)

Because the regiment was in a quiete sector near Bailly/St. Mard since october 1914, he could have earned the EKI before at the Marne. Because he wears the 07/10 tunic, I assume, the picture was taken before 1915.

Because he is almost Gefreiter, he should have fought a few weeks after mobilization.

Possible battles at the Marne in september:

6: Châttilon s/Morin

7,8: Esternay-Courgivaux

16-21: Tracy le Mont

Maybe he was wounded at was sent to a hospital near Mainz

Hi Chris!

Ar you sure with the 23? That doesn´t with 40 in any way.

IR40 was XIV.AK (Rastatt), and IR23 VI.AK Neiße (Upper-Slesia)

Nice card... I like the bavarian humour... But I am prussian by administration. In native cases I´m from the Rheinprovinz (the area around the river rhine, where the the carnival is very populair

Oh yes, the Prussians... Faster than a lightning...

Hello Chip!

Yes I know, because I put the list together...

I read a few books (you know I have a couple of books...). The infos for the infantry I read in the coloured books from the Verlag Militaria and the rest I got from different books

Here is a list, which explains, for what the cyphers stand for

Bedeutungen der Monogramme auf Schulterklappen.pdf

Hi Chris!

Yes, it is a bomb underneath an L.

FAR 29 (Württemberg). The L stands for Prinzregent Luitpold v. Bayern

Chip, don´t forget, it was a Landwehr-unit. A war-time unit. Weapons were not stamped since outbreak of the war (officially). This stamp must be made inofficially by an order of the regiment-commander or after the war

Brilliant! Thank you very much!

But as I´ve read in the article below ( http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/antique-machinery-history/ot-crawler-tractors-196276/index15.html#post1497873 ),

it´s not russian, but american, right?

Does someone have informations about this carrier?

I have seen another photo with german soldiers of WWI, so it must be a vehicle of that period, but I don´t know which country did build it.

I assume, it was a carrier for bigger artillery grenades.

Yes! It is Stabswache of the GHQ!