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Re Joe's Chinese group pic...received this reply at Axis History Forum. cn110:

Joe Last pic identified as hospital Staff of Feldlazarett 357 in Turkey,September 1917. Pic was originally posted at: http://www.sammlergemeinschaft-deutscherauszeichnungen.org/ Peter

1901 Waldersee's wife was American as well.

Life magazine Sept 1966 Waldersee in China

From ebay.de,seller f-08-15,a few months ago. Japanese & Germans together Peking 1900/1901. I think thats Erich von Falkenhayn on right,next to Japanese officer.

Even though the photo studio states processed Shanghai it might be somewhere else,even Tientsin.After the Boxer Rebellion was crushed a lot of patroling continued around Peking as well.Perhaps an allied officer wanted to pose with some Manchu troops?His sleevebands also indicate navy? I found...

Here's some Imperial Chinese troops 1890s. Uniforms look similar to those in Joe's photo. By 1905 Chinese uniforms were more of a European style. All pics from memoryofchina.org

In 1907 a Chinese Company was added to Shanghai Volunteer Corps. Another helm photo as well,from: http://www.traditionsverband.de/download/pdf/MilitaerPolizeiChina.pdf

From: http://www.soldiersofthequeen.com/page15m-PrivateOstasiatischeExpeditionskorps1900.html

Wylie,might post there later.Yen on AHF says they are numbers on their vests as well. Another Ostasiatische Infanterie Regiment pic from: http://www.kopfwelten.org/kp/personen/kessler/

I posted the photos on AHF. http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=101&t=175932 Lets see if the Chinese experts there can help out.

Look to me like the Shanghai Municipal Police: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Municipal_Police A very paramilitary type police force.Photos later from 1940 here: http://bbs.news.163.com/bbs/mil/182634558.html

"Back from Pozieres" Not from the new collection but shows further the Australian love of trophies.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/diggers-at-play-frozen-in-time-20110226-1b97y.html 73 of the photos can be viewed here: http://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunday-night/galleries/article/-/article/8898586/image/1/lost-diggers/

Also worn in DSWA

Many postcards here: http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?parent_id=452489&word=&s=1&notword=&d=&c=&f=&k=0&lWord=&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&snum=0&imgs=20

From: http://lagrandeguerre.cultureforum.net/t38346-nouvelles-photos Poster Lothar Garde Schützen....note S for Schützen on shako! Always good information on that forum: http://lagrandeguerre.cultureforum.net/

From the Bundesarchiv. Dresden 1932--Funeral of Frederick Augustus of Saxony

From the Bundesarchiv

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