FAR and LMK unit marked 98/05 bayonets

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Landsturm Infanterie Batailon II, Straslund or Stuttgart [vary rare wartime unit]

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Landwehr Feldartillery Regiment

OR

Feld-Luftsciffer - Abteilung

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FESTUNGS -MASCINENGEWEHR - KOMPAGNIE - 14 ARMY KORPS

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SOME ITEMS FROM MY COLLECTION ON 98/05 BAYONETS

A RARE MARKED FOR FELD ARTILLERY BATTERIE

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FELD FLIEGER ABTEILUNG ?????

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a rare 98/02 unit marked bayonet

Reserve pioneer Bataillon 16th

[1th Lothringisches - Metz].

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On 09/04/2018 at 12:22, zuluwar2006 said:

in a previous post, i attached a photo from my new FAR 80 unit marked 98/05 bayonet.

I am posting 2 more 98/05 unit marked bayonets from my collection, just to show the rarity of this unit marking, which is a wartime marking, for sure.

regards, dimitrios

The Munitions Supply Columns   

Initially the men of the Infanterie- and Artillerie-Munitions-Kolonnen were trained and supplied by the Feldartillerie, while the Füßartillerie formed its own Munitions-Kolonnen, the latter being under the command of the various Armeekorps. In addition to this, the Feldartillerie-Abteilungen and Füßartillerie-Bataillons at the front had their own Leichten-Munitions-Kolonnen.   In autumn 1916 the complicated system of Infantry and Artillery munitions columns for Active, Reserve and Landwehr units was discontinued and all columns were regrouped as "Munitions-Kolonnen neuer Art (new style)". Once the restructuring of the Army under Hindenburg and Ludendorff had taken place the "neuer Art"  was discontinued and replaced by a central numbering system and 507 Munitions-Kolonnen were created to supply both the Infanterie and Feldartillerie . 
At the beginning of 1917 the Leichte-Munitions-Kolonnen (Light munitions columns) were taken from their respective Feldartillerie units and renumbered centrally under Armee level command forming 785 columns for the Artillery. (Note: “Armee level”:Under the direct command of the Army they were attached to.)   A third group, the Füßartillerie-Munitions-Kolonnen-Abteilungen and the Leichten-Füßartillerie-Munitions-Kolonnen were amalgamated as Armee level Füßartillerie-Munitions-Kolonnen, which for practical reasons (with the exception of eleven which stayed at Armee level) were later reassigned as Battery level columns when the Füßartillerie units became horse drawn and needed a more flexible supply chain.   
In the end there were 507 mixed Infantrie- and Feldartillerie-Munitions-Kolonnen, 785 Leichten-Kolonnen exclusively for the Feldartillerie and 11 Armee-Füßartillerie-Munitions-Kolonnen all at Armee level. As an exception to the Armee level units, each Füßartillerie-Batterie had its own integrated Munitions-Kolonnen.   
In addition to these columns organised at command level, combat units had single munitions wagons as part of their table of organisation equipment. One munitions wagon per infantry company, two per Jäger company, one per machine gun zug (platoon) and one per gun for Feldartillerie and Füßartillerie.   
Personnel were drawn from both the artillery and train initially but by October 1918, with the manpower shortage becoming serious, the Munitions-Kolonne began to lose their complement of artillerymen. Only the Leichten-Munitions-Kolonne supporting the Feldartillerie, the Batterie-Kolonne supporting the Füßartillerie and the eleven Armee-Füßartillerie-Munitions-Kolonnen continued to receive their complement of artillerymen from the artillery branch, the rest of their personnel came from train units.     
 

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D., you are too right on the rarity of F.A.R. markings - a quick search of my master list of 4,800 Imperial German unit-markings - not up-dated, though, since some 14 months ago - shows only four bayonet markings like this