The First Ever German Medal Collectors!

[Chris Boonzaier]

I assume these guys are doughboys?

Can anyone pin down the uniform pattern?

[Ulsterman]

Definitely Doughboys @ 1918-1919. Can you focus on the hat badge at all?

Looks exactly like the uniforms I have in my attic from Granddad.

[Guest Rick Research]

Ahhh, turistas! Just think of the locals churning out what have always peculiarly been know as "hate belts" for the souvenir trade!

They are in shirt sleeves-- probably summer of 1919, maybe in the Rhineland occupation forces. The tight fitting closed neck scratchy wool tunics would have been unbearable in heat.

My grampa was still wearing his gubamint issue shirt when he died 40 years later-- they did GOOD work back then on contracts.

[Robin Lumsden]

First totenkopf collectors as well, from the look of the belts...........