Can anyone translate the annotations on the backs of these photos

[Jools mckenna]

[Jools mckenna]

Does anyone know what this guy is wearing?

[GreyC]

Hi,

1)

Komp[anie] führer Unterstand // Company commander shelter/HQ

a=Unterstand //a=shelter

H[au]ptm[ann] Rost u.[nd] L[eu]t[nant] Spatz // Captain Rost and Lieutenant Spatz

2)

Spatz

Hansen

? maybe Salicker

Mangold

 

Edited 30 November , 2018 by GreyC

[Jools mckenna]

4 minutes ago, GreyC said:

Hi,

1)

Komp[anie] führer Unterstand

 

a=Unterstand

 

H[au]ptm[ann] Rost u.[nd] L[eu]t[nant] Spatz

 

2)

Spatz

Hansen

? maybe Salicker

Mangold

 

Thanks, any idea what kopanie fuher understand means?

[GreyC]

English translation added in original post.

GreyC

[Jools mckenna]

I wonder if the cross next to Hansen means a casualty?

[GreyC]

yes. KIA

GreyC

[Jools mckenna]

Is just me or does Lieutenant Spatz look like he's wearing a french skull cap?

[Jools mckenna]

I think I've worked out what unit they are from, the man furthest left has a 2 on his shoulder board. Does that mean they were from the Kgl. Bayer. 2. Infanterie-Regiment?

[GreyC]

Hi,

as they not always wore the correct uniforms or parts thereof, it might also be RIR2 or LIR2 (Prussian). Normally you´d expect a Landwehr or Reserve Cross as 2nd cockade, but this was not always so. Very often they wore the normal Prussian one. The cockade does look a bit Bavarian, though.

 

GreyC

Edited 4 January , 2019 by GreyC

[Jools mckenna]

Assuming that they are Bavarian, is this Hansen?

[GreyC]

These two could qualify. Ancestry has digitized the Stammblätter of the Bavarian soldiers, so you could search there for him, assuming the regiment is it. But this seems to be the Bavarian Reserve Inf. Reg 2 not the IR proper.

GreyC

Edited 4 January , 2019 by GreyC

[Jools mckenna]

Grey, could you tell me what this says?

Edited 4 January , 2019 by Jools mckenna

[GreyC]

Vizefeldwebel der Reserve und Offizierstellvertreter Peter Hansen, born or currently living in Brixen. Vizefeldwebel being the rank, Offiziersstellverteter the position (stand in for Officer, who were in short supply). From what I can see of their uniforms none of them matches that of a Vizefw or Offizierstellverteter

Please note my additional thought amended to my earlier post!

GreyC

Edited 4 January , 2019 by GreyC

[Jools mckenna]

Would the reserve not wear a 2 on the shoulder board?

[GreyC]

Yes, the Prussian one as well as the Bavarian one. The Hansens you selected seem to have been wounded/killed in the Bavarian  2. RIR as their names come from the Bavarian lists.

GreyC

Edited 4 January , 2019 by GreyC

[Jools mckenna]

There are 62 entries for Hansens when searching "2. Infanterie-Regiment" but most are prussian guard or jager regiments

[Jools mckenna]

When looking at photos(through a magnifying glass) the cockades look different to Prussian cockades from about the same distance.

[Jools mckenna]

What does the second entry say? also "-Gefallen" is next to it 

 

Edited 4 January , 2019 by Jools mckenna

[GreyC]

Leutnant der Reserve der Infanterie Peter Hansen- Wrixum, Preussen.

Not him.

Edited 4 January , 2019 by GreyC

[Jools mckenna]

2 hours ago, GreyC said:

Leutnant der Reserve der Infanterie Peter Hansen- Wrixum, Preussen.

Not him.

Are you sure that isn't him? He's in the Bavarian Verlustlisten(p192). And is probably a different person than Peter Hansen on page 161 + Leutnant is a better match to the uniforms.

Edited 4 January , 2019 by Jools mckenna

[GreyC]

Well,

the photo in hand is probably better than the one you posted.

Best,

GreyC

[Jools mckenna]

55 minutes ago, GreyC said:

Well,

the photo in hand is probably better than the one you posted.

Best,

GreyC

Yes, the quality is much better in life.

[charlie2]

On 30/11/2018 at 19:23, GreyC said:

Hi,

1)

Komp[anie] führer Unterstand // Company commander shelter/HQ

a=Unterstand //a=shelter

H[au]ptm[ann] Rost u.[nd] L[eu]t[nant] Spatz // Captain Rost and Lieutenant Spatz

2)

Spatz

Hansen

? maybe Salicker

Mangold

 

 

Could „Salicker“ be Salisko? I realise the s before the k isnt formed as one would expect.

If so a possibility could be Lt.d.R.d.Inf Eduard Salisco Bav RIR 2, also written Salisko in the casualty lists.

a= Stellung - post/dugout

 

Charlie

[GreyC]

Hi Charlie,

very well possible!

GreyC