The Prussian

Hello gentlmen!

By the way...

I still need help in ID of this nice machine gun badge. Inside I can read "Sch".

As far I can recognize the shoulder strap, the unit probably is the 4th bavarian Reichswehr-Inf.Rgt.46. But what does "Sch" mean?

Thank you very much in advance

Hello gentlmen!

By the way...

I still need help in ID of this nice machine gun badge. Inside I can read "Sch".

Thank you very much in advance

Does someone have infos about turkish collar badges?

I am also looking for a book about turkish uniforms during wwI.

Please have a look at the photo. Are the collar signs old-arabic numbers?

Hello!

It´s nice one! By the way, the unit is the Fußartillerie-Bataillon Nr.110. The bataillon was set up by the Fußartillerie-Regiment Nr.5 and was later under command of the Fußart.Rgt.25 and at the end of war under command of the 18.army.

Armed with:

1. long howitzer 13

2. long howitzer 13

3. heavy fied-howitzer 02

Wonderful collection, Chris!

Congratulations!!!! :love:

Hi AlecH!

That makes sense about the crowned EW.

But did you ask him, he if knows, which one was in the 20.000 pieces stock?

I think, that question is similar to the question, what happens after death... No one seems to know...

I have a sleeve of my grandpa´s regiment

Ahja, jetzt geht´s

Surely not german. Something baltic?

Bernhard. What did you see? I can´t see anything...

Yes, he did. In the "Ehrenrangliste", I´ve read, that he used to be Major in the Reichswehr, but I didn´t find him in the oct. 1920 Rangliets. Maybe, he served in a different regiment, but the IR17 (the traditional regiment of the 92), or he left the army before oct. 1920

Me, I like the marching parade

According to your banner, my one was the german cost-guard... :whistle:

Hello!

I also got this photo with a view out of a submarine to the french coast of Villerville (Le Havre)

I recieved this wonderful photo, where you can se the GOEBEN and BRESLAU in the Bosporus. Alsmost under turkish flag

Hello!

I wantr to show you two photos of my artillery collection.

The first is detailed-photo of a 105mm Felfhaubitze and the other one a nice pic of a 149mm Kanone. Note the plates "S.F." (Sonderformationen zur Verfügung der O.H.L.) - special-formation for the OHL´s disposition

and the last one

and another one

and more:

Hello Charles!

I think he is captain on the 2nd photo. Difficulty to see. Because of the decorations, one could recognize him.

Here is my small collection of the IR92.

Hello gentlemen!

I´ve got this nice post-war photo, probably 1919.

But I haven´t seen such a shoulder strap.

I can recognize an "L"(or maybe an "E") and a crown.

Unfortunately the reverse is blank

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

Alpenkorps1915: Haven´t the book Krafft never been published?

Chris: Of course, that´s a possibility. So we could collect every single EW we can find, hoping to get sometimes a "proof-photo".

That´s the way I do.

If I were in Munich, I should take my lorry with me to take away all the papers I´d like to read... But I´ve never been there

About the EW with the crown, I agree with you. The only thing, I´ve read about it, is i n the "Katalog der Uniformabzeichen der deutschen Freikorps", under "Freikorps Oberland". There ain´t no photo, but two photos of normally EWs with the text: "Abzeichen der Kompanie Oestreicher (ohne Krone)" (without crown). But I don´t know what that means according to the EW

Unfortunately I haven´t recieved any new informations about his unit after he left the 155.

Maybe someone of you has any new recources to check, please?

Hello gentlemen!

Does someone have informations about a german pilot, called Heinrich Ponath?

There were several lieutenants named Ponath, two of them died in the war, one served as an officer in the Reichswehr.

But I don´t have any information about Heinrich.

The shows him in the uniform of the 1st Garde-Grenadier-Regment. But his name in not mentioned in any Rangliste. He survived and became an officer in the Wehrmacht too, but I couldn´t find any informations.

Thank you very much in advance

^{Hello AK1915!}

^{Well, you´re right with your thoughts about wearing that badge. I think, no one can solve the problem clearly. Remember, it was war, and a lot of soldiers have seen the Edelweiss badges, and they said to themselves "we are in the Alpenkorps, so why not wearing that badge?" If forbidden, or not... A lot of soldiers wore the austrian Kappenabzeichen, even they were restricted to wear. I think, they wore the badges down there -no officer would have blame them for that. Back in Germany, it was another case...}

^{I had my informations about the w.Geb.Bttr.6 from the brilliant book "Handbuch der Vebände und Truppen des deutschen Heeres, Feldartillerie, vol.2".}

^{You are right about the bayer.Geb.Art.Abt.2}

^{It was set up ba the stel.Gen.Kdo.I.bav.AK (preuss. KM 30.5.15 and 1.6.15 and bav.KM from 22.5.15}

^{The w.Geb.Bttr.6 left this unit in february 1917 and joined the w.Geb.Art.Abt.4}

^{The battle order of the bayer.Geb.Art.Abt. was:}

^{w.Geb.Bttr.6 (until feb.1917)}

^{bayer.Geb.Bttr. 12}

^{bayer.Geb.Bttr. 7}

^{bayer.Geb.Bttr. 8 H (Haubitze). in this unit a 1/2 würt. platoon served in the w.Geb.Bttr.11}

^{The 2nd Abt. belonged to the Alpenkorps from may 1915 until july 1917}