The Prussian

Very nice picture! Do you have a close-up? Is it e six or seven pollen-one?

Hello!

Here is my grandpa (sitting on the chair), serving with the FAR43.

Note the blue shoulder strap pipings for the VII. army corps and the telegraph buckle. By the date of the photo he was 19 years.

Born in juin 1898, he joined the army in november 1916, earned the EKII in november 1917 for the battles at the Chemin des dames and became a Gefreiter in july 1918, so the photo must have been taken between november 1917 and july 1918. The other soldier is unknown.

And ready to fire with a french St. Etienne!

One photo of the 208.Inf.Div. (Note the special divisional markings at the cuffs...

Ah, all right!

That makes it clearly.Thank you very much! I was confused, because in a german book about international artillery, the british artillery was divided in

Light artillery (up to the 127mm)

Medium artillery (up to 152mm)

Heavy artillery (more than 183mm)

Jau, Tach!

Wenn dat getz auch im Dialekt geht, is dat abba für alle, die nich ausm Pott kommen tun, als wie wennze wie der Ochs vorn Berch stehen tuhs.

(Das war Ruhrpottdialekt)

Scherz beiseite.

Grundsätzlich finde ich die Idee gut, so lernen wir alle wieder ein wenig von der anderen Sprache. Wichtig fände ich aber auch, wenn man evtl. eine Rubrik einrichten könnte, wo man Wörter oder Begriffe einstellt, die man laut Wörterbuch oder Übersetzerprogramm nicht übersetzen kann, weil es die Wörter in der anderen Sprache einfach nicht gibt.

Beispiel Teile am Rundblickfernrohr:

Knebel zur Schneckenwelle oder Geländewinkel-Libelle. Wie übersetzt man sowas?

Thank you very much for the informations, mates!

I stil have one more question. In Germany we had field-artillery and foot-artillery. Both were drawn by horses or later by lorry. The difference was the calibre (lower or more than 10,5cm).

By example the british 8" howitzer, Mk VI (203,2cm). Was ist field- or horse-artillery or foot-artillery? If foot-artillery, which abbreviation would be used for the medals, please?

Hello!

I just have a simple question about two stamps upon british medals.

I have british war medal, stamped R.A. and a 1914-15 star stamped R.F.A.

Is there a difference between Royal Artillery and Royal Field Artillerie? I couldn´t find R.F.A. in the abbreviations-index of the National Achive.

Thanks a lot in advance!

www.gailroth.de

There are some villages like Gilbroth in Gemany.

Gieleroth and Gelroth, both in Rheinland Pfalz, Gailroth in Bavaria und Gillrath in the Eifel

Excuse my late answer, please.

So he´ll be a chinese man.

So the foreigners from lef to right are:

Swedish, chinese, spanish. What about the man left to the chinese guy. German? Please have a look at the collar.

Ah, ok. I haven´t seen this one before on photos. I bought it, just I´m not sure, if it was worn... Normally those of a diametre of 4cm were worn. I still don´t know which one was in the 20.000 box...

Hi Chris!

Could we have a complete view, please?

No Marcin!

They are NOT the "Schlachten des Weltkriegs". The "Reichsarchiv" is the official publication by the staff.

Here is the lis of the complete Reichsarchiv:

1) Die Grenzschlachten im Westen (1925), 719 S., 3 Anlagen, 7 Karten, 10 Skizzen

2) Die Befreiung Ostpreußens (1925), 390 S., 3 Anlagen, 14 Karten, 11 Skizzen

3) Der Marne-Feldzug (Von der Sambre zur Marne) (1926), 427 S., 7 Karten, 11 Skizzen

4) Der Marne-Feldzug (Die Schlacht) (1926), 576 S., 3 Anlagen, 10 Karten, 6 Skizzen

5) Der Herbst-Feldzug 1914 (Im Westen bis zum Stellungskrieg ; Im Osten bis zum Rückzug) (1929), 643 S., 3 Anlagen, 18 Karten, 14 Skizzen

6) Der Herbst-Feldzug 1914 (Der Abschluß der Operationen im Westen und Osten) (1929), 500 S., 4 Anlagen, 7 Karten, 14 Skizzen

7) Die Operationen des Jahres 1915 (Die Ereignisse im Winter und Frühjahr) (1931), 493 S., 2 Anlagen, 17 Karten, 22 Skizzen

8 ) Die Operationen des Jahres 1915 (Die Ereignisse im Westen im Frühjahr und Sommer, im Osten vom Frühjahr bis zum Jahresschluß) (1932), 666 S., 4 Anlagen, 7 Karten, 32 Skizzen

9) Die Operationen des Jahres 1915 (Die Ereignisse im Westen und auf dem Balkan vom Sommer bis zum Jahresschluß) (193), 519 S., 7 Anlagen, 5 Karten, 29 Skizzen

10) Die Operationen des Jahres 1916 (bis zum Wechsel in der Obersten Heeresleitung) (1936), 706 S., 4 Anlagen, 7 Karten, 37 Skizzen

11) Die Kriegsführung im Herbst 1916 und im Winter 1916/1917 (Vom Wechsel in der Obersten Heeresleitung bis zum Entschluß zum Rückzug in die Siegfried-Stellung) (1938 ), 545 S., 8 Anlagen, 6 Karten, 26 Skizzen

12) Die Kriegsführung im Frühjahr 1917 (1939), 606 S., 26 Karten, 3 Skizzen

13) Die Kriegsführung im Sommer und Herbst 1917 / Die Ereignisse außerhalb der Westfront bis November 1918 (1942), 483 S., 30 Karten

14) Die Kriegfürhrung an der Westfront im Jahre 1918 (1944), 793 S.

Kartenband zu 14) (1944), 45 Karten

Kriegsrüstung und Kriegswirtschaft (1930), 496 S.

Kriegsrüstung und Kriegswirtschaft (Anlagenband) (1930), 534 S.

Das deutsche Feldeisenbahnwesen (Die Eisenbahnen zu Kriegsbeginn) (1928 ), 247 S., 17 Anlagen, 6 Karten, 88 Skizzen

Das deutsche Feldeisenbahnwesen (Die Eisenbahnen von Oktober 1914 bis zum Kriegsende) (2010), 454 S.

Bildermappe (35 Bilder)

Thanx for showing the card. Unfortunately I can´t read the script...

Of course mate!

I´ve got the map from the Reichsarchiv, vol.9 (Mittler & Sohn, 1933)

A short background.

The hot battles started at 9th near Tahure. The german storm troops recieved 100m. Tahure was shot by enemy artillery and stayed in no-man´s land. France made seven attacks on the road Tahure-Ripont. They failed. The battles from 22.9. - 14.10.. suffered heavy losses. We had lost 1.700 officers, 80.000 men, 129 field-guns and 56 heavy guns. The german field-artillery shot 1.564.000 shots, and the german foot-artillery did 395.000

Not that unit, but the divsion. Please have a look at at the attached map from 14. oct. 1915.

Yes that is according to the table in that book. You can see, that a lot of french and russian guns were used!

Hello Paul!

You are right! They had the "Mörser." The long mortar, as I wrote, was introduced in 1916. My mistake. So they had the Mörser, 211mm, M10 with the L/12 gun, as you wrote!

I attached such a beauty. Note the stil not-existing shield. They came with the M16.

I´ve got an atypicaly one.

Not the script upon the helmet. This Landsturm unit shows the army-corps number too!

XIII.12 (Landsturm-Infanterie-Bataillon Ellwangen, Württemberg). In this case 3rd company (note the window on the right)

Hi Chris!

That´s right so far. Because of the introduction of the steel helmet, since 19.10.1916 (KM Nr.1363/10) the were no more Tshakos ordered. But this photo is from 118. Maybe january? So he will be still in the training (not the old-style ammo pouches). Maybe one month later he came into fire. For a "last photo", it´s written very less...

Hello Chris!

When the photo was dated, he was 18-19 years old, so it could be sure, he was sent to the front.

Hello Dante!

According to his uniform, I assume, he served with the Garde-Jäger. He wears a Tshako with a guard-star. Because he has old-style ammunition pouches and missing Litzen at the cuffs, I think, here we see the Garde-Reserve-Jäger-Bataillon

I have checked the maps of the battle in the Champagne 1915.

The X.AK belonged to the 3.army (like he wrote). The 20th division stood between Somme Py and St.Souplet. Their right-hand neighbour division was 24th.reserve-division (XII.Res.Korps), and the left-hand neighbour division was the 5th division of the X.AK. So, this artillery unit might belong to the 20th or 5th division.

Now we need a list of all artillery troups in the battle of the Champagne 1915. An answer gives the book "Mein Kriegstagebuch" by Goes and Cron, 1935.

The only number 6 was the III./Fußart.Rgt.6.(Belonged to the 3.army) So far so right! He wrote this!

The 1., 2., 3., and the 9. company had the long mortars.

Kraus will not help, because his books are about field-artillery.

Hi Marcin!

It would be better to show us the Feldpost. A Mortar-Regiment had never been existed in the old army!

I have only one (until now...)