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    Flammenwerfer! Flames, skulls and stuff


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    • 5 weeks later...

    Well, last week I found this.

    A Meissen plate (to go with the Meissen Wehrwolf medallion). :cheers:

    ... and here is the pre 1907 Degen I have to go with the plate.

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    • 2 weeks later...

    This can be another interesting skull.....Thoughts?

    It appears to be shaped like the flamethrower-regiment skull, and its mounted on a field-gray cloth oval. It's likely this man is a veteran of the Garde-Reserve-Pionier-Regiment.

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    So, this former naval officer is wearing insignia for at least three different Freikorps.

    He has 2 Erhardt badges, the sleeve unit badge and the award next to his EK1. Collar badges are I assume a post Erhardt service...

    Would be interesting to know his career...

    There must also have been a number of "Walts" around back then, wearing things to impress the guys in the Pub...

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    It's a Freikorps insignia, but I don't know which one. What's the badge under the EKI?

    Thomas, not all men of the Brigade Ehrhardt had such skulls on their sleeve. I hoped to get some infomations, because I read they had a Sturmkompanie and they had a Flammenwerferzug. Freikorps Flammenwerfer badge? Badge of the Sturmkompanie? .

    PS: Here is the complete photo, which was posted in another forum before.

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    I will try to manage a sort of multi-answer:

    The picture was shot in Berlin during the Kapp-Putsch in March 1920. Ehrhardt is identified with the x under it.

    The skull was the insignia of the Sturmkompagnie of the Brigade Ehrhadt.

    Many insignias were worn on Freikorps uniforms as many smaller units were subordinated to a bigger unit belonging to a much larger group. Here you can read it upwards as Sturmkompagnie of the Brigade Ehrhardt in the GKSD.

    A navy wounded badge.

    Edited by Gilles
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