3rd Garde Div....

[Chris Boonzaier]

An ebay buy... nice shot.... I wonder what medals are under those coats ???

[Mike Dwyer]

Rather than the standard bell-shaped stiff top or soft-looking top, notice how the next-to-the-last guy on the right (wearing a leather coat) has already started with the Wehrmacht look on his hat!

Edited April 21, 2006 by Mike Dwyer

[Guest Rick Research]

Alas and alack, overcoats are the pits for identifying officers!!!

There were a gazillion von R?ders, and no Rank List specified "with beard" to tell them apart.

Slightly better for von Rango who liked to tango with spurs that go jingo jango...

Generalmajor aD Ralf von Rango (1866-1939) commanded 7th J?ger Battalion before the war, and ended as CO of 6th Guards Infantry Brigade.

Major von Rango had been a BUSY battalion commander over the winter of 1913-14,

adding to his Red Eagle 4th with Crown, XXV and 1897 the following (gazette dates from Milit?r- Wochenblatt)--

W?rttemberg Crown Order-Knight 3.3.14

Saxe-Ernestine House Order-Commander 3.3.14

Waldeck Merit Cross-Officer 21.4.14

and

Schaumburg-Lippe House Order-Officer 19.5.14

though all that turns up for him DURING the war are

Bavarian Military Merit Order 3X awarded 13.6.16 and gazetted 8.7.16

Prussian HHO3X gazetted 7.11.16 as Commander of J?ger Regiment 3

and

Prussian Crown Order 2X gazetted 22.12.17

[Chris Boonzaier]

Ralf von Rango

Thanks for the info.... Ralf von Rango.... sounds like a cheap German western hero

[Glenn J]

Ralf von Rango (1 May 1866 - 13 Mar 1939)

Regards

Glenn

[Chris Boonzaier]

I wonder how he landed up with an Edelweiss... I did not know any guards units wore it?

[Chris Boonzaier]

Is this von Rango the commander of the 3rd Jaeger regt as well?

[Chris Boonzaier]

Is this von Rango the commander of the 3rd Jaeger regt as well?