Dave Suter's bunker

[Dave Suter]

Are the straps the 1944 pattern?

My recollection is that they are - I'm up the hill so can't go down to the bunker and look.

Glad you like the fire police tunic - nice to have something you haven't seen....

[Richard Gordon]

Dave

A pleasure to came back and revisit your thread and wonderful collection.

Regards

Rich

[Dave Suter]

Thanks Rich. Some day I've got to find the time to take good 'book quality' photos of this stuff.

This is a private purchase tunic for a Luftwaffe Fliegertruppe Flugzeugf?hrer Feldwebel (Air Force Staff Sergeant Pilot) with the original badges. I don't have a photo of it, but it has a tailor's label indicating the tailor was Georg Henschel from Charlottenburg. The owner's last name was Gosby.

Edited May 27, 2007 by Dave Suter

[Dave Suter]

Has a very nice early-pattern breast eagle.

[Dave Suter]

I don't have much political stuff. This is my only SA tunic, a wool Dienstrock (Service Tunic). It was never issued, but there is a flap in the lining at the shoulders so that shoulder boards could be added. The arm band was found in the pocket.

[Laurence Strong]

Hi Dave

Whats the swaz on his left pocket?

[Dave Suter]

It's 1 Marz 1935 Saar Commemorative. Made of stamped brass, about 1" square. The cut out swastika has a silver metal map with SAAR in raised letters on it attached with two prongs. Two of the swastika arms have 1 MARZ and 1935 in raised letters on them. The back is marked W.REDO SAARLOUIS. Has a safety pin catch soldered on. Sorry I don't have a seperate photo of it - this is the best I can do for now - if I try and make it larger it's too blurry.

[Dave Suter]

This is my only other political tunic - an NSDAP brownshirt for an Ortsgruppe Blockleiter. The collar tabs are the 3rd pattern (1936-1938).

[Laurence Strong]

No thats good. Thanks

[Dave Suter]

Well, how about a little Kriesmarine stuff? This tunic is a Weisser Rock neuer Art (New Pattern White Tunic) that was introduced 3 December 1937. It is the second pattern white tunic, the first pattern having a standing collar. It's for a Leutnant der Marineartillerie. (And yes, the picture really sucks... )

[Dave Suter]

Hard to see, but the device on the shoulder board is a winged artillery shell.

[Dave Suter]

Here's a greatcoat for an Obermaschinist (Engine Room Chief Petty Officer). I got this piece from Jack Angolia. It's pictured in Die Kriegsmarine - Uniforms and Traditions, Volume 3 , page 436.

[Dave Suter]

Here's a service tunic for a Stabszahlmeister (Paymaster Captain) of the Heer Beamte (Army Officials).

[Dave Suter]

The uniform came complete with piped stone grey trousers.

[Paul R]

Thanks Rich. Some day I've got to find the time to take good 'book quality' photos of this stuff.

This is a private purchase tunic for a Luftwaffe Fliegertruppe Flugzeugf?hrer Feldwebel (Air Force Staff Sergeant Pilot) with the original badges. I don't have a photo of it, but it has a tailor's label indicating the tailor was Georg Henschel from Charlottenburg. The owner's last name was Gosby.

Very pristine tunic!!!

I love the Admin stuff!! That is the first set of Admin piped trousers I have seen!!

[Dave Suter]

Here's a private purchase Waffenrock for a Kavallerie Unteroffizier (Cavalry Corporal) of the Wehrkreis X Remonteschule (Military Area X Remounting School). Wehrkreis X is Hamburg. The other possibile unit would be a Cavalry Corps headquarters. (See below for further on that.) Tunic came with piped stone-grey trousers.

[Dave Suter]

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[Dave Suter]

Detail showing the nice hand-embroidered 'X' on the strap.

[Dave Suter]

Here's the tailor's label.

[Dave Suter]

And this is how I know which unit the owner was assigned to. At the inside of the lower-right is this ink stamp. A bit hard to see in the photo, but it reads 'Gepr?ft' over 'W. Rem.-Sch. X.'

[Dave Suter]

Here's a Kriegsmarine private purchase pea coat (uberzieher), made of high quality doe skin. The collar tabs indicate the rank of Maat (Petty Officer 3rd Class).

[Dave Suter]

The left sleeve has Petty Officer Career & Rank Badge for an Artillerie-Mechanikersmaat (Artillery Mechanic Petty Officer 3rd Class). Below that is a Specialist Badge for an Elektrotechnik Lehrgang II (Electrical Motor Specialist Training Level II).

[Dave Suter]

Has a very nice hand-embroidered breast eagle.

[armybrat43]

Do you have a website with your collection listed there? And do you have a museum to show off your collection? I have seen more WW2 period uniforms in your bunker then here at our local museum that a retired Major left his collection to. If you don't have a website or museum do you plan on having one?

[Dave Suter]

I'm an old geezer, so no web site. Might be something I'll do to kill time when (if?) I ever retire. Would need to take a lot better photos than these though. I will eventually post most of it here. (BTW, I'm saving some of the best for last.)

Edited June 5, 2007 by Dave Suter