Righting a very obscure wrong ....

[Chris Boonzaier]

OK, here it is... I have been after this card for ages.... Printed just after the war it tells the truth about an event that all the German cards printed during the war got totally wrong......

[Chip]

So, what is the rest of the story?

 

[Chris Boonzaier]

These are some of the cards from 1914, 1915 etc.....

[Chip]

Ah, so the postcards of the period showed regular infantry capturing the flag.

[Chris Boonzaier]

Indeed :-)

During the battle the village the 2nd Bavarian Jäger Battalion was the unit that took the village and captured the first French Flag and Machine Gun. The Jäger who captured the flag put it aside to continue the fight and it was picked up later by an infantry section.

Type lagarde into german ebay and there are usually 4-5 cards showing the infantry capturing them. It took about a year to find this card with the Jäger on it. I knew they existed, but had never seen one.

Here is an account...

http://www.kaiserscross.com/69501/547822.html