1.Grossherzoglich Hessisches Leibgarde-Infanterie-Regiment n°115 tunic

[meme32]

Dear Members of the forum,

 

 

This is my first post on your forum, I would like to thank you for being part of your community. I am mainly a collector of French WW1 Militaria and also firearms but for a few months I started to collect German imperial Militaria.

I am still a novice in that topic and I am interested in that tunic.

I am a bit puzzled by the Bekleidungsamt marking, the IR 115 belong to XVIII Army Korps, is the tunic not supposed to be stamped with the BA XVIII marking instead of BA XIII ?

 

Many thanks for your opinion on that tunic,

 

Kind regards

[Stogieman]

While I can’t answer your question, I will say it’s a beautiful tunic! Love the medal bar too!

[meme32]

Thanks a lot ! I appreciate your feedback !

I hope someone could provide me some replies to my question !

[IR 134]

On 18/01/2023 at 20:19, meme32 said:

I am still a novice in that topic and I am interested in that tunic.

I am a bit puzzled by the Bekleidungsamt marking, the IR 115 belong to XVIII Army Korps, is the tunic not supposed to be stamped with the BA XVIII marking instead of BA XIII ?

 

 

 

 

Hi Meme,

 

Prior to war XVIII., XX., XXI. and III. Bavarian AK had no own Bekleidungsamt

 

https://www.kaisersbunker.com/ht/stamps.htm,

 

So according to your stamp they where supplied from XIII. AK.

An other source I have says, XVIII. AK was supplied from VII., VIII. and XI. AK, which makes more sense since they were the adjacent AK's.

 

 

 

 

[meme32]

Dear IR 134

 

Many thanks for your detailled reply, this is very interesting !

So there is no rule concerning the tunics from XVIII AK; they could bear stamps from VII., VIII. and XI Bekleidungsamt or even other BA ?

 

On " my" specific tunic; would you say that the stamp is fake ? Except the stamps what is your feeling on that tunic please ?

 

Kind regards