tony v
Well-known member
Hi,
This question has always confused the hell out of me,,,,,,,,,,and when you delve deeper it doesn't necessarily get any clearer !
When I started collecting the first question was why do some helmets have different plates ? Ok that's because they represent different states...reasonably easy to grasp but why then do some have different mottos, some different coat of arms, some different cockades and sometimes all three together whilst being in the same Infantry Regiment !
Well hopefully for future reference here is a very simplified version of the "non-independent contingents" of the Army supplied by the various Duchies that aligned themselves to Prussia during the last part of the 19th Century.
First glance at the line up......................middle shelf.............
This question has always confused the hell out of me,,,,,,,,,,and when you delve deeper it doesn't necessarily get any clearer !
When I started collecting the first question was why do some helmets have different plates ? Ok that's because they represent different states...reasonably easy to grasp but why then do some have different mottos, some different coat of arms, some different cockades and sometimes all three together whilst being in the same Infantry Regiment !
Well hopefully for future reference here is a very simplified version of the "non-independent contingents" of the Army supplied by the various Duchies that aligned themselves to Prussia during the last part of the 19th Century.
First glance at the line up......................middle shelf.............