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Like I promissed you, here my three Edelweiss badges.

Note the different number of pollens and the stamp of the D.OE.AV.

I am still looking for informations about the "real" Edelweiss, worn by the Alpenkorps. On different photos we´ve seen different ones. We have ones with 3 large and 3 small pollens, ones with 7 pollens. I´ve read in a Zeitschrift für Heereskunde by a veteran, that some Edelweiss´ had a stamp "DAK". I haven´t seen that one before. I assume, he had seen a stamp. Maybe DAV or D.OE.AV.

Fact is, the 1st one was given to Krafft v. Dellmensingen. After him the bav. LIR had recieved theirs. And after that, the 20.000 in that "box" arrived. Right now I think, the austrians did collect 20.000 Edelweiss, and they didin´t care about wich pattern it was! The veteran said, the different ones were worn at the same time.

Other sources said, that they might be 4cm. That are all the facts I have. Next week I will show my three Edelweis I have.

Hello gentlemen!

Please have a look at this photo. The card is unwritten and unstamped.

Can one ID the PLM-officer next to His Majesty?

Note the crown at the car´s door. In which case this sign was used please?

Maybe imperial car-pool?

In the background left, I think, it´s v. Mackensen. The soldier with the number on the helmet-cover wears a 35? (probably a 358 for Inf.Rgt.358)

Thank you very much in advance

I´m not quite sure, but I think those Vereinslazerette were in the operations-areas too.

Helo!

A wonderful photo!!!!! Brilliant!!!!

BTW: The tank attack of the 21.march 1918 was the first german tank attack!

Concerned units was only the Sturm-Panzerkraftwagen-Abteilung 1 under Hauptmann Greiff.

The tanks were:

501 Gretchen (Hauptmann Greiff)

502 (no name) (Leutnant Vize)

505 Baden I (Leutnant Voss)

506 Mephisto (Oberleutnant Skopnik)

507 Cyklop (Leutnant Bartens and Leutnant Vietze)

Baden I didn´t reach the battleground, he stuck. Cyklop broke down and was left behind, 502 also broke down.

So you tank could be Gretchen (501) or Mephisto (506).

Gretchen stayed in the troop after armistice, and Mephisto today is in Queensland (Australia) to wait for your visit!!!!

In that battle the Abteilung 1 were under command of the 36.Inf.Div. (XVII.AK).

Participated infantry units: IR 128,Inf.Rgt.175, Sturmbataillon 5 (Rohr), 2.Abt./Feldart.Rgt.36, flame-throwers of the Gardereserve-Pionier-Rgt.

Hello!

Vereinslazerett.

There were 85 Vereinslazarett-Züge. This hospitals recieved their equipment and were run by civilian organisations or the communes where they used to be.

Hello!

I´d say, this is Landwehr-Inspektion.

They had the first letter of the city of origin on their shoulder boards.

I can´t see, which letter it is here. But here is a list:

B: Berlin, Breslau, Bromberg

C: Cöln, Chemnitz

K: Karlsruhe

E: Essen, Erfurt

M: Metz, Mülhausen

N: Nürnberg

J: Insterburg

H: Halle

G: Graudenz

A: Allenstein, Altona

S: Straßburg

H: Hannover

D: Dortmund, Dresden, Düsseldorf

L: Landau

P: Posen

And his photo. Unfortunately I can´t recognize the shoulder boards

Hello gentlemen!

I am still looking for informations about my grand-uncle Hugo Harhaus

Because my family was bombed-out in WWII, I only have very rare informations about him.

Born in Essen (23. april 1891), he moved to Posen in 1908, when he became a teacher.

He volunteered 1st august and stayed in the army until 1st january 1919. Then he came back to Essen, where he used to be a teacher again.

In april 1916 he became Leutnant der Reserve (he stepped directly from the rank of a Vizefeldwebel!) in the Inf.Rgt.155.

This info I have found in the Militär-Wochenblatt Nr.62/1916.

I have the regimental history of the IR155. There I found his name in a long, long list of reserve officers, who served in that regiment. But I couldn´t find his agency (what he did in the regiment).

I also have a personal sheet of a teachers association, where I could read, he served in IR 155 AND IR146.

Unfortunately in the regimental history of IR 146 he was not recorded.

In the "Deutsche Verlustliste from 4. july 1917", I found, that he was light injured by accident.

Unfortunately no unit was recorded.

Does someone of you has informations about him, especially, where he served after his time at IR155?

Thank you very much in advance.

I enclosed the sheet of paper of the teacher association (note #9 "Militärverhältnis") and the only photo of him left remained.

Hello!

If he´d be Landwehr, he "normally" would have the Landwehr-cross upon the cocarde

Nice shoulder straps, Chip! Thanks for showing! The strap with the grenade makes me wonder, because bavarians didn´t have those grenades. You are right with the IGB2, that they were bavarians. I haven´t heared anything about they were mixed. They were set up by the Ers.Abt./Geb.Art.Abt.2 and 4.

All those IGBs were set up by Ers.Abt. of Geb.Art.

We had different Geb.Art.Abt. of Baden (3,5 and 6 - they came from the XIVth.AK). They set up the following IGBs:

1, 3, 6, 9,). Maybe we are right with the N°.9???

Kraus wrote (Vol.2, page 718), that Bavaria got the shoulderstraps in april/may 1917, but without the grenade!

Chip: What does the XX upon the buttons mean?????

Hello gentlemen!

I need help to baptize this brave lieutenant.

He wears the uniform of the 5.Grenadier-Regiment and he owns the Galipolli-star.

Is there a chance to find out his name?

Thanks a lot in advance

To me it´s a Baden crest, because I see a grenade upon the shoulder straps. Bavarian artillerist didn´t have this grenade, they just had numbers

Hi Matthias!

I also think, it´s a slide rule

Additional infos of the regiment.

In 1914 their garisson was at Géradmer (2 companies at Bruyères)

They were under command of

81. Brigade (41.Division - august 14)

81. Brigade (66.Division - december 14)

164.Division (from november 16)

The germans called the regiment "Le régiment du diable" (Devil´s regiment), their official name was "Les diables rouge" (The red devils)

The regiment earned the "Croix de chevallier de la Légion d´Honneur", they have 6 registrations in the order of the army, one registration in an order of the army-corps and the "fourragère rouge" (Red aiguilette")

On their flag one see: Alsace 1914-1915 ; La Somme 1916, L´Aisne 1917-1918, L´Ourcq 1918, Roulers 1918.

There were two regimental histories. One about the great war (96 pages, came out 1919), and a bigger one from 1994 with 387 pages

Hi Marcin and Naxos!

That´s right. It´s the "Vorläufige Reichswehr" (Provisional RW). The uniform was worn (officially...) from 5.5.19-1.1.21

This man wears for chevrons. That indicates him as a Feldwebel, not as an officer!

Nice photo!!!!!!

Is there anything written on the reverse?Maybe we can locate the trench, if we´d know the unit and the date

Ah, thank you! But the zoom doesn´t help anyway. I also think, it´s a "K" for Kraftfahrer. The photo could be taken in the last days of the war (so it seems to me)

Hi Glenn!

I only can name two of them:

Reinhold Ritter von Benz, Fritz Pösch

Can we see the entire photo, please?

Now it´s clear. Versuchs- und Übungsflugpark. They´d rather be iron their jackets before taking a photo...

Hello Chris!

The "Ehrenrangliste" has recorded a Oberleutnant Wetzel (later Major a.D.) in the Füsilier-Rgt.Nr.40 and a reactivated Oberstleutnant a.D. Winkler (Inf.Rgt.59, later Jäger-Btl.6)

set up in Bromberg. Under command of the 6th mixed Landwehr-Brigade. First commander Lieutenant-colonel Freiherr v. Dalwigk

I think we´re not able to say something more, unless we haven´t seen the reverse