Chris Boonzaier Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 used by the Germans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Boonzaier Posted January 23, 2006 Author Share Posted January 23, 2006 First is a British compass dated 1916. The name of the british officer and his regt have been scratched out, and "Ltn M?ller 12/23 I.R." written over it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Boonzaier Posted January 23, 2006 Author Share Posted January 23, 2006 The binos are 1909-1911 stamped, the case was later died black by the Germans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stogieman Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 Coo ltopic. Does anybody have any photographs of germans showing off any captured "trophies"??(Rats, Bodies dead or alive and Heads don't count) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chip Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 I have a couple of photos showing Germans with captured Russian and French machine guns. Weapons seem to be the most common trophy. I also have a French Adrian helmet that I got in Germany back in the 1980s, which has a cloth field cover. It was souvenired by a German soldier, who wrote (in that ubiquitous purple pencil) "Somme 1916". Finally, I have a wooden Russian canteen that has a German's name written on the bottom (I also found this in Germany).Chip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Boonzaier Posted January 24, 2006 Author Share Posted January 24, 2006 This thread reminded me of Lt M?llers compass...http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=5077Very strange that the Germans did not have an issue compass ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PKeating Posted February 15, 2006 Share Posted February 15, 2006 No German items captured from Allied forces, I am afraid, but here is a rare photo of members of the 369th RIUS - popularly known as the Harlem Hell Fighters - sailing home. Note the man wearing the M16 or M17 stahlhelm. PK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Boonzaier Posted November 7, 2006 Author Share Posted November 7, 2006 Waking this thread up again....Does noone have any examples of Allied Gear used by the germans ?????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PKeating Posted November 7, 2006 Share Posted November 7, 2006 How about a BSA M20 500cc motorcycle in the hands of members of I./Fallschirmj?ger-Rgt 2 after the capture of Leros in November 1943? PK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Y Posted November 7, 2006 Share Posted November 7, 2006 A Russian pouch... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Y Posted November 7, 2006 Share Posted November 7, 2006 With a German name penned on the flap and some very non-Russian oddments inside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Gregory Posted November 8, 2006 Share Posted November 8, 2006 With a German name penned on the flap and some very non-Russian oddments inside.Tom,Very nice. Any interesting entries in the Milit?rpass?David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Boonzaier Posted November 8, 2006 Author Share Posted November 8, 2006 Tom,Very nice. Any interesting entries in the Milit?rpass?DavidYup... three days arrest for looting Russian military equipment ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Murphy Posted November 8, 2006 Share Posted November 8, 2006 Great items, I love the ID'd compass and the pouch with contents is awesome. Justin is an odd German first name though. Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Boonzaier Posted November 8, 2006 Author Share Posted November 8, 2006 Great items, I love the ID'd compass and the pouch with contents is awesome. Justin is an odd German first name though. DanHi,I think it is Justus.... which is odd as well .....He was probably known as "Just Kramer" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Murphy Posted November 8, 2006 Share Posted November 8, 2006 (edited) How about German field gear used by the allies. Here is a German Patronentaschen 09 captured and used by a US 29th Div. doughboy. Two souvenir buttons were in one pocket, a wadded up waterproof soldbuch wallet was in another and the third contained a pouch of Bull Durham smoking tobacco and rolling papers. The pouch is marked "H. Tilles / Leipzig- Lindenau / 1915". The two stamped markings inside are illegible. This just as it came out of his trunk. Dan Edited November 8, 2006 by Daniel Murphy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Y Posted November 8, 2006 Share Posted November 8, 2006 Yup... three days arrest for looting Russian military equipment ;-)No arrrests, but he got around a bit.[attachmentid=60197]Hope you can read this. The only places I recognize are Riga and der D?na (Danube). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Boonzaier Posted November 26, 2006 Author Share Posted November 26, 2006 This is a small parts wallet for the british Vickers machine gun, dated 1915. I cannot say for certain, but 3 things point to a maybe1) the little inner compartments are removed2) It has the exact size of the large wallets of the time period3) It was found in Germany.I cannot say for fure, but I think it was used by a german soldier to carry his "stuff" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul R Posted November 26, 2006 Share Posted November 26, 2006 The only thing I have that is confirmed caputured is the SVT 40 rifle (on the top). It is stamed "SA"on the reciever, which indicates that it was captured by the Finnish. I know that it is not WW1... but... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Boonzaier Posted November 18, 2009 Author Share Posted November 18, 2009 I just bought a postcard from a german soldier to his family... unusually it mentions souveniers and he mentions he will be sending a French jacket and Mütze home. Somehow Germans were not really big souvenier hunters. Best Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Boonzaier Posted November 18, 2009 Author Share Posted November 18, 2009 I just bought a postcard from a german soldier to his family... unusually it mentions souveniers and he mentions he will be sending a French jacket and Mütze home. Somehow Germans were not really big souvenier hunters. Best Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas W Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 Does noone have any examples of Allied Gear used by the germans ?????? German officer wearing a British 1915-Pattern trench cap: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulsterman Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 A REALLY useful captured item ( @ 1942/43): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob lembke Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 I have a couple of photos showing Germans with captured Russian and French machine guns. Weapons seem to be the most common trophy. I also have a French Adrian helmet that I got in Germany back in the 1980s, which has a cloth field cover. It was souvenired by a German soldier, who wrote (in that ubiquitous purple pencil) "Somme 1916". Finally, I have a wooden Russian canteen that has a German's name written on the bottom (I also found this in Germany). Chip Recently read a primary source about a German MG unit, which was armed with the MG 08, but had a few enemy MGs in reserve, both French and Russian, not trophies, but as reserve weapons. Reading about Gallipoli, and one of the German naval MG detachments had lost almost all of their maxims, but Turkish infantry conter-attacked Brits and were able to present the naval detachment with 13 captured Vickers guns, and the MG detachment was back in business. The Germans, mid-war, used a fair amount of Russian artillery, both the 76.2 mm parapet gun, somewhat modified, as infantry guns (but the barrels quickly wore out, the Russian steel was poor), and heavier Russian guns as divisional artillery. Not sure of the caliber. In 1915 the Germans captured thousands of guns when they captured several very large fortresses. Used first Danish Madsen LMGs and then Lewis guns in special LMG units. My father's unit used French LMGs. The Germans had a very active program, with dedicated officers and units, to salvage enemy material and scrap in general from the battlefield. Two-thirds of the "German" tanks were refurbished Mark IVs. Bob Lembke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KIR Posted December 25, 2009 Share Posted December 25, 2009 I have a british compass from my greatgrandfather dated 1915 and 1916. Front: "69th. FD. COY. R.E. No.2 SN." (69th Field Company, Royal Engineers, No. 2 Squadron) Back: Lt. d. Res. K.J.R.145 (Leutnant der Reserve, Königs-Infanterie-Rgt. Nr.145) Best regards, Jens The battles of both regiments: 69th Field Company: Cambrai 20.11-03.12.1917 K.I.R.145: 22.11. bis 29.11. Tankbattle (Panzerschlacht) bei Cambrai 30.11. bis 01.12. Angriffsschlacht bei Cambrai (Villers-Guislain) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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