themonsstar Posted 22 May , 2017 Share Posted 22 May , 2017 No1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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GreyC Posted 22 May , 2017 Share Posted 22 May , 2017 Good evening! Hundshübel is in Saxony´s Erzgebirgskreis, now part of Stützengrün. GreyC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themonsstar Posted 23 May , 2017 Author Share Posted 23 May , 2017 Thank you Grey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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battle of loos Posted 23 May , 2017 Share Posted 23 May , 2017 good eening, very good picture. the number 28 & 29, the unit are mybe the guards or genadier. some guards regiment are opposing to the canadian advance since april 09th 1917 to auguste 1917 (lens & hill 70) hénin liétard is now hénin Beaumont. the name are changing in 1974. I stay at 20 km to hénin. regards michel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreyC Posted 23 May , 2017 Share Posted 23 May , 2017 (edited) Good evening, Sorry, but I´d rule out guards for 28/29. Guards would have had double braids on collar. The texts on the reverse of the cards are basically concerned with private stuff. The writer of 22 points out that they do not live in the wooden barracks in the background, but in stone-built barracks. The formation stamp of 24 is interesting. The writer is a soldier of the military court in the back area. He writes that there was a long spell of rain and now sunshine. GreyC Edited 23 May , 2017 by GreyC spelling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themonsstar Posted 27 May , 2017 Author Share Posted 27 May , 2017 Karl Herman Augustus Bollow First unit Fusilier Regt No 86 From Lubeck Next Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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trajan Posted 27 May , 2017 Share Posted 27 May , 2017 Lots of fun to research that one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themonsstar Posted 27 May , 2017 Author Share Posted 27 May , 2017 I find some bits I can understand but most of this go's over my head Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trajan Posted 3 June , 2017 Share Posted 3 June , 2017 (edited) On 5/23/2017 at 20:57, themonsstar said: No28 The chappie on the right... He has feldwebel-Sparren on his sleeve, introduced, I understand, on 26th April 1915. Edited 3 June , 2017 by trajan Spelling... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themonsstar Posted 5 June , 2017 Author Share Posted 5 June , 2017 Thank you Julian did this last the war or was it replaced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trajan Posted 5 June , 2017 Share Posted 5 June , 2017 6 hours ago, themonsstar said: Thank you Julian did this last the war or was it replaced. I honestly don't know! I rely on Sommer's book on Imperial German Field Uniforms and Equipment 1907-1918: Volume I which seems to be well-researched, but he gives merely the start date, and indicates they were a temporary measure that became semi-permanent. Andy (GWH the Prussian) is one of those who might now more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themonsstar Posted 21 June , 2017 Author Share Posted 21 June , 2017 Theses postcards show the ugly side of war which sometimes is easy to forget Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themonsstar Posted 21 June , 2017 Author Share Posted 21 June , 2017 I've pick up a lot of this type of German postcard over the years and always wondered what was running through there minds when they took them. Last lot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreyC Posted 21 June , 2017 Share Posted 21 June , 2017 Hi, the photo No 164 seems to depict a crashed/shot down plane and crew. Any more informations on that one? GreyC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themonsstar Posted 21 June , 2017 Author Share Posted 21 June , 2017 Hi Grey No information posted as seen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trajan Posted 21 June , 2017 Share Posted 21 June , 2017 3 hours ago, themonsstar said: Theses postcards show the ugly side of war which sometimes is easy to forget 3 hours ago, themonsstar said: I've pick up a lot of this type of German postcard over the years and always wondered what was running through there minds when they took them. Indeed, it is easy to forget the bloody side of things as represented by inanimate bodies of what was living flesh and blood, and so the need for others to record, although some see this as a form of pornography... I don't, these show most clearly "The pity of war, the pity war distilled" in the sense Owen meant it, how death in war magnifies through concentrating in an image, in reality, the emotion, the suffering, of war. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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