The Machinegunners badge

[dond]

Worn on the left sleeve.

 

There were also a whole lot more than I thought.  Brian tells me there were 19 badges in all.

[Chris Boonzaier]

OK... this is interesting.... we know there are guys units which are NOT MGSSA wearing the badge... but this 1918 Machine Gunners training book seems pretty clear on it being a MGSSA badge....

[ArHo]

What a most interesting Thread, took me some time to find it...! I own none of these badges but let me add two more pictures I like.

Cheers

[filfoster]

Is it correct to generalize that these sleeve badges were worn most often on 'walking out' dress and not in the field?

[Bayern]

The Germans were prone to carry all type of badges in the Front

[filfoster]

Yes, but most of the photos in this thread, as I guess most staged photos in that time, were taken away from the front and the soldiers had their 'better' uniforms, if they had them.  I would guess that these badges were sometimes found at the front but more often on the walking out tunics.

[Bayern]

Well , its OK

[dond]

On 18/02/2020 at 11:05, Chris Boonzaier said:

OK... this is interesting.... we know there are guys units which are NOT MGSSA wearing the badge... but this 1918 Machine Gunners training book seems pretty clear on it being a MGSSA badge....

What book is this?  Any good MGSSA training info?

[The Prussian]

Hello!

Some examples...

Post-war with unknown MG-Ss badge. 4th bavarian Reichswehr Inf.Rgt.46 :

Probably Inf.Rgt. I Insterburg:

 

MG-Ss-Abt.2:

MG-Ss-Abt.2:

MG-Ss-Abt.11:

 

unknown:

MG-Ss-Trupp 197:

Probably no Scharfschütze, but interesting...:

 

unknown:

 

unknown:

 

saxon Waffenmeister-Gehilfe (Armourer Assistant), note the crossed rifles:

Freikorps Pfeffer:

A zoom of photo 1. I can read "Sch"

 

Edited October 3, 2020 by The Prussian

[Bayern]

Getting hot !