The Prussian Posted 8 November , 2016 Share Posted 8 November , 2016 6 hours ago, 4thGordons said: Hello! The first card is interesting. The sender is from Res.Inf.Rgt.68 in a "Nahkampfmittelkursus" (close-range-weapon-course) in Elsenborn (near Malmedy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Prussian Posted 8 November , 2016 Share Posted 8 November , 2016 (edited) 6 hours ago, 4thGordons said: The reverse: The date I carelessly covered when scanning is 1918 The first stamp is from Pionier-Bataillon 27 The second photo is rare!!!!!!! Note the cross upon the forearm of the man on the right. These were signs of the 208th Inf.Div.! In this case Res.Inf.Rgt.65. I attached a nice one from my collection 6 hours ago, 4thGordons said: Last one of this week's haul. Can you reat the text? It´s too bright to read clearly Edited 8 November , 2016 by The Prussian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4thGordons Posted 8 November , 2016 Author Share Posted 8 November , 2016 That is a great image Andi. Here is the text from the bottom of the other one with the contrast adjusted to make it as clear as I can. The original is somewhat over-exposed and also a bit faded - sorry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Prussian Posted 8 November , 2016 Share Posted 8 November , 2016 (edited) 1 hour ago, 4thGordons said: That is a great image Andi. Here is the text from the bottom of the other one with the contrast adjusted to make it as clear as I can. The original is somewhat over-exposed and also a bit faded - sorry That´s really hard to read. 8. Beritt (Beritt = Korporalschaft, section, in cavalry) 3 D. 2 b. (= "beim" is a shortform for "bei dem". Pferdeputzen(?) (at cleaning of horses???) in Alten-Grabow 19??. The 3 could stand for 3rd Eskadron. So we could have 3.Esk./Drag.Rgt.2 The 2 could stand for 2nd Dragoons. The colour of the 2nd was black, that we see upon the collar of the man with the Litewka. BUT the 2nd had an eagle between both cockades... A Beritt is not a tactical unit, but a small group of soldiers, who are responsible for the horses. I attached the structure of a cavalry Eskadron Eskadronsführer (leader of an escadron: Rittmeister = captain) Zugführer: Platoon-leader: Subaltern-officer) Edited 8 November , 2016 by The Prussian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trajan Posted 8 November , 2016 Share Posted 8 November , 2016 11 hours ago, 4thGordons said: I think this is the first time I have seen one of these 'kameraden' photographs in which clay pipes are being smoked! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Prussian Posted 8 November , 2016 Share Posted 8 November , 2016 (edited) It works, Julian! Those clay-pipes are offered around Christmas in Germany with a guy, called "Stutenkerl" (Kerl = guy, Stuten = white bread) This pipes are "smokeable". My father smoked it at xmas ´45, when bread was rare, but pipes were rarer... Edited 8 November , 2016 by The Prussian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceF Posted 8 November , 2016 Share Posted 8 November , 2016 post #623 (upper one with snow): „M[eine] L[ieben]! Nun seht Ihr mal, wie’s hier aussieht. Uns geht es ganz famos, wir werden dick und fett hier und erholen uns ganz wunderbar. Auf baldiges Wieder- sehen in Colonia. Euer Paul“ Dear all! Now you can see, how it looks like here. We are very well [splendid], getting big and fat here and we all recover wonderfully. See you soon in Cologne Your Paul Senders name: Musketier Fervers (?) Christine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4thGordons Posted 8 November , 2016 Author Share Posted 8 November , 2016 Thanks very much Christine. The final two collections of photos have now arrived so lots of scanning in my future! Here is the first and last photo in one of the albums -- so is this the same man? There is some writing on the back of the first one: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Prussian Posted 9 November , 2016 Share Posted 9 November , 2016 Hello! According Christine´s translation. A friend of mine is interested in Res-.Inf.Rgt.68. He ha s an own internet-site: http://www.reserve-infanterie-regiment-68.de/ To your last photos. It shows an Offizier-Stellvertreter. A found a Vizefeldwebel Robert Raphael, seriously wounded in 1914 http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/227603 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trajan Posted 9 November , 2016 Share Posted 9 November , 2016 (edited) On 11/8/2016 at 06:48, The Prussian said: Post March-1918, if the NCO kneeling by the MG on the left is indeed wearing a Verwundetenabzeichen, which he seems to be, and likewise possibly (if not a blemish on the photograph) the young chap with the EK 1 Edited 9 November , 2016 by trajan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Prussian Posted 10 November , 2016 Share Posted 10 November , 2016 That´s right! Thise stripes were introduced in june 1917. The same stripes were painted on the back of the steel-helmets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWF1967 Posted 4 December , 2016 Share Posted 4 December , 2016 Can anyone please offer a transcription for the message and names, or provide ID for the medals/awards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWF1967 Posted 4 December , 2016 Share Posted 4 December , 2016 Rear centre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceF Posted 4 December , 2016 Share Posted 4 December , 2016 A first attempt, not sure if this is correct: Ostern 1918 [Easter 1918] Mit herzlichen Grüßen [Best regards] Hans Meier 1. Büchner [?] Joseph 2. Schlee ??? [maybe something like "Steffl" or "Stoffl" for Stefan, Stephan, Steffan, Steffen, but seems a "bit" far fetched] 3. Glenk [?] Karl 4. Hein Rudolf Christine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Prussian Posted 4 December , 2016 Share Posted 4 December , 2016 Thank you very much, Christine! But now we´ve got a problem to identify the unit. The only officer in the group is the not-numbered one. So he will be the sender. Hans Meier... A name as popular as John Smith in the UK or the States... The only thing I can say, that he is a bavarian infantry man (lion-buttons for Bavaria and brandenburg cuffs for infantry.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trajan Posted 4 December , 2016 Share Posted 4 December , 2016 13 minutes ago, AliceF said: ... Mit herzlichen Grüßen ... 1. Büchner [?] Joseph ... I am banging my head... I got the "Grussen" and never though of "herzlichen"... But how about Luechner instead of Buechner? 7 minutes ago, The Prussian said: ... So he will be the sender. Hans Meier... A name as popular as John Smith in the UK or the States... Yes, well, Andy... ! But certainly all those lads are Bavarian - with those great big "Please aim here for a kill-shot" cockades!!! As for the medals, well, a fair mixture of (presumably) Bavarian ones, although no Prussian Wilhelm centennial ones which narrows it down a bit. Julian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Prussian Posted 4 December , 2016 Share Posted 4 December , 2016 (edited) Hello Julian! It´s Buechner. I´ve never heard from a german name called "Luechner" I´ve checked the casualty lists. Hans Maier: 32 entries Joseph Buechner: no entry Joseph Büchner: 11 entries Schlee: no entry with a firstname with "ff" Karl Glenk: 2 entries!!!, bavarian Resreve-Inf.Rgt.12 ; bavarain Inf.Rgt.15 ; Rudolf Hein: 4 entries. bav. 5.Inf.Rtg. ; bavarian 2.Jäger-Btl. ; bavarian Foot-artillery battery 299 ; bavarian Inf.Rgt.30 Edited 4 December , 2016 by The Prussian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceF Posted 4 December , 2016 Share Posted 4 December , 2016 (edited) B and L is one of these tricky things for me (see below), but here I chose what I thought was most likely. There are a couple of Joseph/Josef Büchner in the Verlustenliste (most from Bavaria). Christine Edited 4 December , 2016 by AliceF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Prussian Posted 4 December , 2016 Share Posted 4 December , 2016 That´s right. I found two matches with the bavarian 5.Inf.Rgt. (Joseph Büchner and Rudolf Hein) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceF Posted 4 December , 2016 Share Posted 4 December , 2016 Great find! Could Schlee be him: http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/3890918 "Stefft" would then be a shortage of a place name rather than first name. But it should be Stettf for Stettfeld not Stefft - more far fetched? Christine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Prussian Posted 4 December , 2016 Share Posted 4 December , 2016 (edited) That would be a great match! Again bavarian 5.Inf.Rgt.! But what is Stefft? It sounds like Stettfeld, but why should he write is hometown in the card? And I read Schlee, but is the first letter of the "ff" word also an "S"? Maybe a nickname? Edited 4 December , 2016 by The Prussian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWF1967 Posted 5 December , 2016 Share Posted 5 December , 2016 On 4 December 2016 at 15:27, AliceF said: On 4 December 2016 at 15:51, trajan said: On 4 December 2016 at 17:26, The Prussian said: Many thanks to you all. Your help is greatly appreciated. No. 4 was the only one I could decipher with any degree of certainty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trajan Posted 1 January , 2017 Share Posted 1 January , 2017 (edited) Happy New Year one and all! Having a bit of a breather here in the two-day break between the last classes (Friday) and the first exams (Monday)... So here are a few I bought over here in November, I think. This first one is a bit of a puzzle in that the left hand of the photograph/post card was cut -off - maybe because of a partial overexposure before developing? There is a black streak there. So, the obverse has these seven chappies, five standing, one seated, and one sat on the ground, and three rabbits and a dog! The chappies all have M.1915 Bluse, except the one standing on the left - he seems to have a work jacket? One only has Winkelgamaschen, the rest of them boots. I was thinking Bavarian, on account of the large State cockades. Against that idea there are no Rautenborte on the collars... The only reliable(!) possible identifier is that red epaulette worn by the seated chappie with a (?)crown over a number/letter/simple monogram. I can make out some of the writing on the reverse but not enough to even start offering my usual bad translation - but note how the writing curves at the right side to fit the truncated front! Julian PS: Just noticed - the seated chappie is holding two rabbits, one black! Edited 1 January , 2017 by trajan Add PS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trajan Posted 1 January , 2017 Share Posted 1 January , 2017 And here is a second... Nothing to say about this one really other than that it is a nice shot of a chappie in the Füsilier-Regiment Kaiser Franz Josef von Österreich, König von Ungarn (4. Württembergisches) Nr. 122 , his Waffenrock M.1910 with the regulation Brandenburg cuffs (some photographs of these men show them with Swedish cuffs), and his trouser cuffs rolled over his boots, a practice usually distinctive of Saxons, but a common affectation among Württembergers also. The photograph, as one can see, was taken in Böckingen-Heilbronn, location of a well-known Roman fort on the Neckar limes....! Julian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trajan Posted 1 January , 2017 Share Posted 1 January , 2017 And last but not least... This young lad in his M.1915 Bluse is almost but not quite showing all of his (?)white-bordered epaulettes, and has a nice troddel with an 84/98 bayonet in the metal scabbard. His name is - I think - Kurt ??? Julian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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