Chris Boonzaier Posted July 23, 2014 Posted July 23, 2014 Hi, I seem to remember reading there was a difference between "Mannschaft" and NCO Drillich jackets? Does anyone have any Info or examples? Thanks Chris
Hoss Posted July 23, 2014 Posted July 23, 2014 EM has a plain 4 panel job nco is cut more or less like a private purchase M10 long covers his bottom and buttons are different. Eric 'wanted 08 maxim crate'
Chris Boonzaier Posted July 23, 2014 Author Posted July 23, 2014 You still smarting about not having a crate? :-)
Hoss Posted July 23, 2014 Posted July 23, 2014 You still smarting about not having a crate? :-) Chris Sell me one and I love you forever and forget what people say about you. re a jacket I'll take some pics tomorrow I'm a busy puppy today. Cheers
Chris Boonzaier Posted July 25, 2014 Author Posted July 25, 2014 Here is my new NCO one... Unfortunately Saxon Arty and not Bavarian Infantry... but I think I would have to look long and hard to find a better one...
Chip Posted July 25, 2014 Posted July 25, 2014 (edited) Chris, I was watching that one too. A very nice example. I've had the trousers for years, but the jacket has escaped me. You're fortunate that I was broke when the auction ended. Edited July 25, 2014 by Chip
Chris Boonzaier Posted July 26, 2014 Author Posted July 26, 2014 Chris, I was watching that one too. A very nice example. I've had the trousers for years, but the jacket has escaped me. You're fortunate that I was broke when the auction ended. By the time it ended I was broke as well ;-)
Hoss Posted July 26, 2014 Posted July 26, 2014 By the time it ended I was broke as well ;-) Saw it but blacked out when I saw the bidding! honestly you high rollers kill us little people. Eric
Chris Boonzaier Posted July 26, 2014 Author Posted July 26, 2014 No High roller... just figured if I had to have one... then this one with all the stamps and name... :-)
Chip Posted July 27, 2014 Posted July 27, 2014 It definitely is a nice one. I was a bit surprised when I saw the final price, but the chance to get one only comes along once every year or two. Not that many survived. In 1992 I paid $300 for a nicely B.A. marked Radfahrer Umhang and I think that would fall into about the same category of scarceness (today). You add for inflation between then and now and you have about what you paid. I have a mint pair of Drillich trousers that are marked to a field artillery unit. I also have a mint Drillich navy work outfit with trousers and a collarless shirt. Chip
Adler 1 Posted August 4, 2014 Posted August 4, 2014 (edited) Here are a few pics of drillich jackets for an EM and a Württemberg NCO... Adler 1 Edited August 4, 2014 by Adler 1
Chris Boonzaier Posted August 4, 2014 Author Posted August 4, 2014 Nice! I looked in the seems of mine, it seems always to have been a light color, not grey....
Adler 1 Posted August 5, 2014 Posted August 5, 2014 After reading this topic again, I noticed both models were just called drillich jacket untill now. The Germans named them differently it seems... The NCO's Drillichrock is slightly different than the enlisted man’s Drillichjacke.The Drillichrock is longer, it has a Waffenrock type rear with two buttons in the middle and all the buttons are made of polished tomback or nickel (as on the corresponding field gray tunic). It has a narrow piping in the state colours around the small standing collar. Adler 1
Adler 1 Posted August 8, 2014 Posted August 8, 2014 Here a few pictures of Drillichrock in use (courtesy Drake Goodman). It seems even pictures of these are hard to encounter... Adler 1
Chip Posted August 10, 2014 Posted August 10, 2014 Chris, Regarding the material of the Drillichanzug, Kraus describes it as "rohgrauem Leinen-Drillich". He says that with repeated washings the color became bleached out. They started experimenting with a feldgrau shade of gray on a material like Feldrock lining cloth in the summer of 1913, but with no outcome due to the start of the war. Chip
Chris Boonzaier Posted September 16, 2014 Author Posted September 16, 2014 This is interesting... http://www.ebay.de/itm/Original-Foto-Soldat-mit-Tropenhelm-Berlin-1917-/331321530581?hash=item4d244d58d5
Chip Posted October 3, 2014 Posted October 3, 2014 Chris, That, obviously, is not Drillich, but rather a cotton Sommeruniform. Originally ordered for Heimat use, due to the wool shortage, they were hit the same year they were approved with a cotton shortage. When the situation improved in 1917, they were issued to troops serving in the Balkans, Ukraine and the Crimea. I have a period photo of it being worn in Turkey and it was most likely issued in the rest of the Middle East as well. Chip
Hoss Posted February 10, 2015 Posted February 10, 2015 Gents Jacket I've never owned a pr of the grey fatigue trousers just never happened, recently the C-guild had a pr but I was too late,,, my Navy set is gone years ago unfortunately. I haven't had this tunic long won it on ebay.de, the two rear buttons are missing I think. Cheers
Chip Posted February 11, 2015 Posted February 11, 2015 Eric, Is there any evidence of this one having any of the NCO state Borte on the collar? It should have had some. Chip
Chris Boonzaier Posted October 25, 2015 Author Posted October 25, 2015 Here it is with a few period pics.... http://kaiserscross.com/286801/552301.html
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