Some Shoulder boards...

[Chris Boonzaier]

I have no clue about shoulder boards as some of you may have noticed :-(

I dont know if these are pre war or wartime...

Out of the woodwork today....

I assume both infantry?

BIR9 or BRIR9

Garde Gren 6 ?

Thanks

Chris

[Chris Boonzaier]

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[Paul R]

It is amazing at how well they have held out over the past 94-90 years.

[Chip]

Chris,

Prior to 1907, I believe all of the Bavarian infantry regiments wore red straps. With the adoption of the new uniforms, the piping colors representing the prewar strap colors were changed for Bavarian infantry units. The pipings began to be color coded by army corps, so that the straps from the I.b.A.K. had white piping (and underlay), II.b.A.K. had red piping and the III.b.A.K. had yellow piping.

To confuse things a little further, the same is true of the Bavarian field artillery units, that is, pre-war - all red straps, after 1907 - corps colors. Since the Bavarian FAR did not use the flaming bomb device on their boards, there are many similarities with the infantry.

So, your #9 officer boards could be infantry or artillery! With red underlay they could date anywhere from 1888-1915

The Prussian boards are most likely from the Fu?artillerie Rgt. Nr.6. All foot artillery boards were white on the Dunkelblau tunic. There was no Garde Gren.Rgt.Nr.6. They could be a post 1915 pair for the Friedensuniform, but don't really look like that to me. So I guess if they were M15s for the Friendsuniform, they could be Gren.Rgt.Nr.6 or some other reserve infantry unit.

Chip

[Naxos]

Chris, have a close look at the first set of boards - it seems there is a ghost image of a two digit number.

It appears there was a 13, 18 or 19 before

Edited February 28, 2009 by Naxos

[Chris Boonzaier]

Anything possible I suppose...

These are from a "Civvie" source, so I suppose a wartime transfer?

We need a Hauptmann of the 9th Bavarian Inf Regt who transfered from the 19th?

Best

Chris