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Bruno, Based on my knowledge following extensive research in the CICR lists, the following facts can be stated/confirmed: The wounded German prisoners were mostly treated in the same way as the wounded French soldiers. Not necessarily by German doctors who were also prisoners, but mostly by...

Re- Archives at the CICR for Heinrich Jost, 8/LJR118: https://grandeguerre.icrc.org/fr/File/Zoom/D/15/01/C_G1_D_15_01_0622/C_G1_D_15_01_0622_0563_0.JPG/ https://grandeguerre.icrc.org/fr/File/Zoom/D/15/01/C_G1_D_15_01_0622/C_G1_D_15_01_0622_0564_0.JPG/ And for Wilhelm Jost, 6/LJR118...

Bruno, There are three guys with the name Jost in the II/LJR118: Heinrich from Darmstadt, 8/ LJR118, wounded near Vitry-le-Francois and Fontaine between 4 and 16 September 1914: https://des.genealogy.net/search/show/296586 https://des.genealogy.net/search/show/413388 Then taken prisoner...

Sorry..... https://www.pickelhaubes.com/xf/threads/hessian-landwehr.21246/ Philippe

Bruno, I see no picts at all... :unsure: Philippe

Son of a b.....:devilish:(n)

Bruno, I do not think the wearer was a Herr H. because the letter is small. I am quite sure that this is the last letter of the name, and because of its place on the name tag, it is very possible that we have here a very short name (4 or 5 letters maximum, maybe even less). Unfortunately, there...

Bruno, you are killing us with your Hauben 😊 Unfortunately I can not the guys on the two name tags in the Verlustlisten 1914-18...It seems the last owner was the Vizewachtmeister, so I assume that this helmet became his property as he ended his military career before the war. This perlring...

https://des.genealogy.net/search/show/3254632 Philippe

Humhum, and what abour our continent with Mrs VDL ? Nothing better on our boat :eek: Philippe

Helmets of the JR176 are quite seldom to encounter! This unit was on the eastern front till the fall of 1915, then France, till the end... Philippe

It would be helpful if you could post some picts of your helmet ;) Kammer helmet or private purchased / Eigentum? If Eigentum helmet for an officer, he also could have of course served in all the units above, but also in any other unrelated unit ...It was common that officers, active, Reserve...

Hi, It´s not so simple... There were no RJR95 or RJR153. Reservisten and Landwehrmänner of this two active units (I and II/JR153 - Sachsen-Altenburg, I and III/JR95 - Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha and II/JR95 - Sachsen-Meiningen) moved in following Bataillonen at the mobilisation: - III/RJR66, II and...

Steve, GR2 is a Pommern unit, not Ostpreußen. The II Armee Korps in Stettin was pomeranian with infantry garrisons of Stargard, Bromberg, Swinemünde, Stralsund, Greifswald, Kolberg, Köslin. It had two infantry garrisons on the territory of Westpreussen (V AK): Hohensalza and Schneidemühl. The...

Steve, We have here the third bataillon of the Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment 12 (of course prussian), formed in Berlin at the mobilization. Both other Bataillons were formed in the NW of Berlin (Perleberg / Brandenburg) and the SO of Berlin (Calau / Brandenburg). Note that the commander of the...

Gentlemen, as I already wrore: Maybe the stamp is not GRFK but GRFP, the last letter being a P and not a F, for Grenadier Regiment Franz von Preußen" (Nr12). Then it would make sense for the GR12, because as I wrote above, the 8th company of the GR12 foúght between Fort Douaumont and Douaumont...

Good to me too! Philippe

Otherwise, the Regimentsgeschichte of the GR12 (page 78) is absolutely advocating fo a helmet of the 8/GR12. This special company together with the 5/GR12 fought on the 28.2.1916 between the Fort Douaumont and the village Douaumont and could conquer the Werk 613, a fortified position occupied by...

Hi Steve,, You are exactly pointing what I mean. To my humble understanding, GRKF is for Grenadier (or Garde) Regiment Kaiser Franz... And I do not believe it could be the GR12, because this regiment only adopted the big Grenadier eagle on the 16.06.1913. Before that date, all helmets of...

For my part, I am very interested to know how the regimental marks are looking like 🤗 I really would like to know what unit it could be and if it will be possible to make somme connection to the engraving "Douaumont-1916". Philippe