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    Posted

    Well......

    A theme Robin?

    Don't you mean a... monomania? :rolleyes:

    How many years of collection does one need to get all those skulls?

    Regards

    Gilles

    • 4 weeks later...
    Posted

    Chris, is your skull painted in white as all that don't move in a Foreign Legion camp ? :rolleyes:

    You mean the stones that litter the desert?

    I Saudi Arabia there are hundreds of Rocks painted white in the desert... and none of the locals can figure out why!!

    Posted

    I have updated my little website to include some skulls for your viewing pleasure.

    They're on the last few pages of the site.

    The link is below.........

    I could not find the link to the new images :unsure:

    Can someone help me??

    Cheers,

    Ricardo

    • 2 years later...
    Posted

    Here's an odd skull.

    Not like the official pattern for guard pioneers.

    Apparently came from a German house clearance. (The attached shoulder straps may have come with it.)

    Anyone any ideas?

    Posted

    Here's the back.

    The method of construction, with hand stitching, seems very similar to the official Guard Pioneer badges.

    The straps relate to the Wuerttemberg Army Corps, whose state colours were of course black and red.

    The black and red on the skull may be coincidental.

    Minenwerfer (other than Heuschkel post-1918) didn't wear skulls, so far as I know.

    I'm stumped.

    Posted (edited)

    Robin, the straps are for an Offizierstellvertreter belonging to the Minenwerfer Bataillon XIII.

    Edited by Naxos
    Posted

    Robin, the straps are for an Offizierstellvertreter belonging to the Minenwerfer Bataillon XIII

    Thanks. :cheers:

    They were listed as 'Minenwerfer Abteilung des XIII. Armeekorps' (???)

    I'm not really that acqainted with Imperial army formations.

    It's really the TK I'm interested in. It's an oddity.

    Posted (edited)

    In 1917, the Minenwerfer Bataillon XIII was fighting together with a Sturmbataillon and Flammenwerfertrupps at the Hartmannsweilerkopf.

    November 10, 1917

    "Ein weiteres gro?es, neues Unternehmen auf der Kuppe startet vom LIR 124. Vier Sto?trupps

    von 4 Offizieren 120 Mann mit 38 Mann vom Sturmbataillon XVI, 18 Pioniere und 8

    Flammenwerfer werden eingesetzt. Die gr?ndliche Ausbildung am ?bungswerk Ollweiler

    sollte jetzt Erfolg zeigen. Zerst?rungsschie?en durch das Minenwerferbataillon XIII und

    3 Batterien Artillerie hielt den Feind nieder. "

    Edited by Naxos
    Posted

    In 1917, the Minenwerfer Bataillon XIII was fighting together with a Sturmbataillon and Flammenwerfertrupps at the Hartmannsweilerkopf.

    November 10, 1917

    "Ein weiteres gro?es, neues Unternehmen auf der Kuppe startet vom LIR 124. Vier Sto?trupps

    von 4 Offizieren 120 Mann mit 38 Mann vom Sturmbataillon XVI, 18 Pioniere und 8

    Flammenwerfer werden eingesetzt. Die gr?ndliche Ausbildung am ?bungswerk Ollweiler

    sollte jetzt Erfolg zeigen. Zerst?rungsschie?en durch das Minenwerferbataillon XIII und

    3 Batterien Artillerie hielt den Feind nieder. "

    Thanks again! :cheers:

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