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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

As usual, Bruno, it would be hard to find better helmets as yours ! Philippe

Let´s wait the opinion of Clovis57, the specialist for chinstraps (and cockades). He made on a french forum two very long studies. For my part, but I am not an expert, I do not have some problems witht this chinstrap. One of the most important thing on those hardware parts, is how the leather...

Beautiful, but why JR103? :unsure: Do you know the name of the former owner? Could you track him? AOK is selling something similar: https://ageofkingsmilitaria.com/saxon-reserve-105th-infantry-officer-pickelhaube-and-visor Unfortunately, there were two Leutnant der Reserve M(artin) Schulz in...

Hello, We have some longer discussion on another forum about the possibility of another regimental stamp 3IR.... We know there was an original stamp 31LIR for the Landwehr-Infanterie Regiment 31. I do not want to post the picts here, because both concerned helmets and Überzüge are not in my...

Bruno, I do not know what to say...Certainly one of the rarest M15 officer helmet ever! Philippe

Thank you Bruno. Dark green. Helmet worn by Leutnant Otto Bögl, 4/ KBJR19. And with some period newspapers under it, mentioning the name of a fellow officer of the same unit and company (Leutnant Heinrich Riedner, KIA 9.5.17) who subscribes to this newspaper (Fränkischer Kurier from Nürnberg...

Only one Walter Dank in the whole Verlustlisten, Leutnant der Landwehr from Königsberg. Lightly wounded summer 1918. https://des.genealogy.net/search/show/8871776 I think the other name could be Bürgin...But there are a lot of them in the Verlustlisten... Philippe

Once again, a superlative one 👏 Philippe

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Hi, I would rather say: 3FB = 3 Fahrende Batterie (I do not think this is a "8" and we have here Batterie, not Bataillon)... About the eventuality of brass fittings that have been painted feldgrau: I own a M95 EM FAR78 saxon helmet, with brass fittings (and silver center of the wappen) that...