The Prussian

Fantastic picture!

By the way. Do you know a book in european letters, which shows the uniforms and the shoulder straps of the russian army?

Info: The Life-guard Kexholmski regiment served with the life-guard regiments Litowski, St.Petersburgski and Wolynski in the 3.Guard-Division (XXIII.corps) in Warsaw

A little bit of german grammar...

There is ONE Schütze, but many Schützen

In this case, the "n" is the plural. The sender has to be named Schütze

In may ^1916 the division held the sector of Ban-de-Sapt and Ste.Marie aux Mines (Alsace)

Hello friends!

I´ve got two pages of an ordre of v. Rango of the 3rd Jg.Rgt.

The gaps are intersting. He didn´t fill in the units...

But if we have a look at the history, it all came, like he did order!

I attached a (german) translation and two maps to make clear, that these ordres were according to the first fights in the "Julische Alpen 1917" and the "Point 1114"

The regiment was under command of the 200.Inf.Div.

Note! It´s an original document, but the signature is probably not originally from v. Rango, because it is a dublicate, written by the regimental writer. He wrote it and set Rangos signature by himself. This way was normally. v. Rango wrote it first with his signature and the regimental writer wrote it a few times for the different bataillons.

Weisungen Rango.pdf

Very nice photo with a rare unit!

Formations add:
The regiment was set-up at nov., 3rd 1914 from the following units:
b.Brig.Ers.Btl.1 (became I,.Btl.)

b.Brig.Ers.Btl.3 (became II.Btl.)

b.Brig.Ers.Btl.4 (became III.Btl.)

The commanders:
Regiment: Oberst z.D. Kein

I.: Major d.R. Simon

II.: Major z.D. Bauer

III.: Oberstleutnant z.D. Schubert

Casualties: 21 officers, 974 NCOs and enlisted men

Maybe we are in Italy in may 1916 and the lieutenant is an austrian officer

Oberst Baumann war artillerie-commander of the austrian XX.corps. If the card doesn´t show north at the top...

Maybe really russin front. could Baumann be austrian?

Oberst Baumann led the austrian 9th. Art.Brig.

Thanks for helping!

I haven´t found a Vohlerd in the RL. If Vohlerd is right, he´ll be a resrv .officer or he joined after mobilization

Add:

If the photo was taken in the east, and if it´s FAR59, the 15th division went into line north of Kisselin. In february 17 they were in Transylvania (upper valley of the Olta) and in april it was in reserve at Vladimir-Volynski.

What about the name of the Leutnant?

Hi Chris!

A nice card!

Saxon set up two brigades (Bautzen and Dresden) in february 1919. In may they added the Zeitfreiwilligen-Regimenter Dresden (3 bataillons) and Leipzig (4 bataillons).

1st june 1919 the brigades became Reichswehr-Brigaden 12 and 19.

The leaders of the Leipzig-Regiment were: Oberst a.D. Schieblich ; Major a.D. Bramsch ; Oberst Bierey

Auseklis. Then it would be a rare shot in the period of a few months...

I´ve checked the Baumanns in the Great War.

Major Gustav Baumann: Führer bavarian 22.Inf.Rgt from january-july 1918

Hauptmann Emil Baumann: I./bayer. Pio.Btl. since march 1915

Hi Andy "bayr. l.m.w. 3" or "bayr. S.M.W.3" I think Schwere, looks like an "L" but is an S I think

Hi Chris!

I´m not sure... I read a big S, probably M and W and a two-cyphered number

I'd vote for british target tanks too. It's not a german Balkenkreuz

Ausekly. I don't know. If it is the 15th div. it was in the east only from nov 16 until apr 17

well, thanks a lot for your posts, mates. I'll check the battles of FAR 59, maybe I'll find something about Baumann. I have tge records if all higher officers in the war. No Baumann down to artillery regimental level. I'll check the infantry tonight. Even no Bauman on divisional or brigade level. I think it's a mixed unit, set up just for a period if time, like a big army attack

The small black patch of the man (2nd from left) in the Ldw.Inf.Rgt.78 could be an "Infanterie-Nachrichten-Abteilung" couldn´t it?

I attached a comparison too

Hello Berhard!

Thanksa lot. That is my thought too. With a better mag glass I could read a few more words!

Kampfgruppe Baumann

Feuerleitungsplan

Batterie 1.??

Batterie 2.32 (?)

Batterie 4.59 (?)

Batterie 6.59

I´m sure with the 6.59 only

Behind them I read Haupstellung witgh numbers and Wechselstellung with numbers.

Because of the Foot-artillery bataillons didn´t have 6 batteries, I assume, we have field artillery regiments.

Unfortunately a date is missing...

Generally the FAR59 belonged to the 15.Inf.Div.

The Res.Rgt.59 belonged to the 77.Res.Div.

Does someone know something about the Kampfgruppe Baumann? Probably it´s an artillery group

Photo unwritten, but the name (I can´t read...)

Thanx a lot in advance!

Here is an intersting Postcard, the stamp on the back is from "Ausbildungskurs am Granat-Werfer Lager Lechfeld"

Where is it?

By the way, Chris. The book about the Generalgouvernment Belgien has arrived. Nothing special military, a few photos, but mostly histories of the civilian live and administration

Hi Marcin!

It´s a pre-1900 coastal canon. But I´m not sure about the calibre. There were different ones from 21cm, 35,5cm up to 40cm. A lot of the 35,5cm were bought from the Turks to be protect the Dardanelles and the Bosporus

Do you have photos of soldiers in WW1, who became well-known later?

Let me start with two careers:

1) Leutnant Erwin Rommel (I think, I don´t have to tell, who he was...). He is the first officer, who marches in "our" direction"

2) Leutnant Richard Pellengahr during a visit of the Krupp factory (later leader of the 196.Division in Norway and Denmark. He also was involved in the planning of that operation "Weserübung":

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pellengahr

Have you ever seen this one?

It´s a 9cm Flak system Schnetzler.

In this case used by FAR43

That´s bad, but you kno the shipping prices. A huge book like that will be 40$ shipping

I bought it for 75€... But the strap is a 5. I can have a better look in in front of my eyes...

Not exactly the same, but it´s a handmade one.

Hello IG!

Thank you very much for your help! I hope, I´ll get some infs of a book I ordered this morning. It´s called "Waffengedenkbuch der königlich bayerischen schweren Artillerie" It´s a more then 400 pages book with infors only about the bavarian heavy artillery history of formation! I didn´t know that book before!

But back to the photo. It´s possible, that this man is yet an infantrist. Maybe he wears the old tunic, but almost with the new shoulder straps with the white piping fort infantry. So we would have bav.5th IR, or Res.Rgt.

Anyway, I couldn´t find a missing link to the bav.8th RD or the Edelweiß, even he´d be an infantrist.

I hope the book will arrive very soon!