themonsstar Posted 21 March , 2020 Share Posted 21 March , 2020 Austro-Hungarian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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themonsstar Posted 22 March , 2020 Share Posted 22 March , 2020 Just looking at some of the differences in uniform and equipment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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themonsstar Posted 22 March , 2020 Share Posted 22 March , 2020 Couple of joking postcards This one is from 1898 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themonsstar Posted 22 March , 2020 Share Posted 22 March , 2020 German flamethrower Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themonsstar Posted 22 March , 2020 Share Posted 22 March , 2020 The 2nd one is from a unknown Pioneer unit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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themonsstar Posted 23 March , 2020 Share Posted 23 March , 2020 (edited) Edited 23 March , 2020 by themonsstar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jools mckenna Posted 18 April , 2020 Share Posted 18 April , 2020 Recently acquired this quite nice portrait of a Lt. wearing a Litewka. Can anybody decipher the inscription and the possible unit abbreviation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Prussian Posted 18 April , 2020 Share Posted 18 April , 2020 Hello! I can't read the name, but the unit is Füsilier-Regiment 90 Schwerin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jools mckenna Posted 18 April , 2020 Share Posted 18 April , 2020 4 minutes ago, The Prussian said: Hello! I can't read the name, but the unit is Füsilier-Regiment 90 Schwerin Oh that's what it was! Wasn't sure what the second letter was! Thanks Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie2 Posted 18 April , 2020 Share Posted 18 April , 2020 Hermann Stendler - subject to confirmation Charlie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWK Posted 18 April , 2020 Share Posted 18 April , 2020 (edited) Hermann Spencker? I searched on surname *en*er and Ort Schwerin He's named as a "Ltn" in all results, bar one (the Landwehr one) Edited 18 April , 2020 by JWK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jools mckenna Posted 18 April , 2020 Share Posted 18 April , 2020 (edited) One of those says he was captured, so presumably there is a red cross card for a Hermann Spencker? Edited 18 April , 2020 by Jools mckenna Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie2 Posted 18 April , 2020 Share Posted 18 April , 2020 Yes but not with Füsilier Regiment 90. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie2 Posted 18 April , 2020 Share Posted 18 April , 2020 Spencker appears to be correct, his RC card is here https://grandeguerre.icrc.org/en/File/Details/181967/1/2/ only the second card shows Füs R 90 the other and the documents record RIR 90 but it is the same person. Charlie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jools mckenna Posted 18 April , 2020 Share Posted 18 April , 2020 (edited) So, He was captured on the 10.8.17, assuming he was captured when he was in RIR 90, that would put his capture in Flanders? Edit: says he was captured in Flanders. http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/5764725 Edited 18 April , 2020 by Jools mckenna Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimberley John Lindsay Posted 18 April , 2020 Share Posted 18 April , 2020 Dear All and JWK, Super Portrait and excellent researching! Kindest regards, Kim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimberley John Lindsay Posted 18 April , 2020 Share Posted 18 April , 2020 Dear All, Here are some wounded Officers with Ltn der Reserve Rudolf Schneider and his wife Elizabeth who visited her convalescent husband at Bad Kissingen April 1918. Also Ltn d. R. Schneider's Battery Officers and NCOs. Rudolf and Elizabeth were my German wife Evelyn's maternal grandparents... Kindest regards, Kim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie2 Posted 19 April , 2020 Share Posted 19 April , 2020 7 hours ago, Jools mckenna said: So, He was captured on the 10.8.17, assuming he was captured when he was in RIR 90, that would put his capture in Flanders? Edit: says he was captured in Flanders. http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/5764725 He was captured at Westhoek, as he was later interned in Switzerland he was presumably badly wounded. His full name was Hermann Albrecht Bernhard Friedrich Walter Spencker. Charlie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreyC Posted 19 April , 2020 Share Posted 19 April , 2020 (edited) Hi Kimberley, the man on the very left in your 1st photo is probably from an Artillerie Fliegerabteilung (later Fliegerabteilung Artillerie) who directed the artillery from the air and helped assess the damage caused. He wears a Beobachter-Abzeichen. GreyC Edited 19 April , 2020 by GreyC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimberley John Lindsay Posted 19 April , 2020 Share Posted 19 April , 2020 Dear GreyC, Yes, you are right. Additionally, the three officers all have the EKII, and Ltn. d. R. Schneider, the EKI (he also had the Zähringer Löwen, Baden). Interesting the different cut of each of the uniforms... Kindest regards, Kim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toby Brayley Posted 9 June , 2020 Share Posted 9 June , 2020 Well outside my usual sphere but for less than £1, I couldn't resist. Sent 20th September 1914. Could anyone suggest a regiment or perhaps translate the text. Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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