Please help with translation

[David F]

Hi guys,

I posted my collection of Imperial postcards in the collectors showcase section of the site here

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=20225

and was wondering if someone could help with translating the rear of this postcard?

Many thanks in advance

David F

Edited July 21, 2007 by David F

[David F]

here is the front side of the postcard.

I am assuming that he is the person who wrote the postcard to relatives but any help would be appreciated.

[Guest Rick Research]

You couldn't ask for a nicer portrait of that weird style of field cap, or to contrast the contrast in quality a pre-war-made tunic like that being worn by a mere private had with the nasty stuff in wear by the end of the war!

It is addressed to Hermann D?hler in R?tzengr?n bei Auerbach in the Voigtland.

Returnee is witten: GEFREITER (which he is not in the photo--no collar rank in that ? basic training pose) L. Gerisak, 1st Fortress Medical Company, Posen.

From Posen 15 November

he sends Dear Hermann this portrait as a souvenir, says they will be right soon "in function" (spelled wrong) and "up through today everything's really been going very well. Many greetings to the workers of Reiboldsgr?n (!) with hopes of a healthy reunion,

Louis"

Can't imagine a Babelfisch would get much out of it, since it's in incomplete sentences and spelled wrong, though Louis the workers' friend has a legible enough hand. Basic grammar school educations were better back then than a lot of what comes out of colleges these days!

[David F]

thank you very much Rick for the info.

Always nice to have the personal side to the war.

Cheers

David F

[David F]

After a quick look at the Volsbund there is no record of Louis Gerisak,so i could assume that he survived the war?

but i have 5 Herman Dohlers who died in WW1 .

Unfortunatly there is no more information so that is pretty much a dead end.

Thanks again for the info Rick.

[David F]

OK one last request.

Here is the back of another postcard.

The name i think is Georg Baier but is the rest his address or something else?

Again many thanks.

and the front

[Guest Rick Research]

Another terrific quality shot, wearing the M1916 Bavarian state edging on his collar. Yes, to Georg Baier junior in Sulzbach.