Recent content by Anthony Charles

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Another poster for you German reeenactors to nail to your dugout wall next to the Fernsprecher! Tony

See below German WWI Poster! Remember the enemy is listening. Greeting to all. Toy

Thanks. Really interesting. I think maybe Reinhard Heydrich was in the KMM in WWI. I remember around 1984 I was with some young German buddies and one was quite a ladies man. He had a great story to tell. He had "made it" with a hot young German girl at hr parents house. After he did the deed he...

I had to move my mom last week to a rest home. She still had some photos of us picking up relics from a plowed field right by the Damloup High Battery, also not too far from Fort Vaux in 1985 when I brought my parents to Europe and showed them around. This was before I desecrated that German...

Too bad it has the wrong eagle. The correct eagle , as you probably know, has long inward reaching belly feathers. The spike is right though, one frequently sees such mismatched M15 Kur helmets with an infantry M15 spike on it. Thanks for the post. It is fun to see what is on EBay.

Too bad it has the wrong eagle. The correct eagle , as you probably know, has long inward reaching belly feathers. The spike is right though, one frequently sees such mismatched M15 Kur helmets with an infantry M15 spike on it. Thanks for the post. It is fun to see what is on EBay.

Hi. As I was listing some of my WWI German photo collection to sell I came across the attached photos below and wondered if anyone can help me identify the guns. PHOTO: W3137: The reverse says in handwriting "Deutsche Russenkanonen" and the guy in the ball-top artillery helmet has a captured...

Wow, what a link. Do you have any links for WWI German gas equipment and grenades? Do you own any signal equipent? I own the other of all WWI signal archives (copies of the original documents from Bavarian Army Museum and other archives)

Dear James and Ron Good to hear that someone takes an interest! I was about to throw out all my research papers then I thought, maybe someone will take an interest in what I have. Found out I have cancer and undergoing chemo, trying to eliminate all the clutter in my office an dget my affairs...

Dear Francis You are welcome. Any topics you are interested in, maybe I can find more material. My research was early field trials of the M1907/8/10 etc feldgrau uniforms...to include the experimental helmets, original documents dealing with uniforms, insignina, field equipment etc. Tony

More explosive topics. Paddle grenades and rifle grenades/launchers ready to do damage. The happiest day of my life I think was about 1986 when I was at Verdun illegally digging up a caved in bunker in the Ravine de Morte not all that far from the Trench of Bayonets. My German, American and...

I find the early paddle grenades in their many forms quite interesting. I bought a real one in France once, see the color photo.

A decent photo of the little steel plate that hung from a leather "collar" on the infantryman's chest with a big diagonal hook. The twisted wire fuze loop would cut your finger open if you tried to pull it to ignite the fuze adn then to add insult to injury a shower of sparkler-like sparks would...

My work on German WWI hand grenades can be seen in Zeitschrift fuer Heereskunde, on Twitter and in Johan Somers latest Schiffer book. Here is something to add to it. Note the men in the top photo carry the breast 3-pack carrier for the discus grenade. The lower photo shows a German Shepard in a...