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Yeah everything I've learned about the changes to the Bavarian army at this time makes perfect sense with his reason for leaving. Before I thought that he might have just said that so he didn't get lynched during WWI or something, but it makes sense that he was actually seeing very significant...

Very interesting, I guess I hadn't seen many photos from this time that were dated. My impression was only the fancy lads got there pictures taken during this time, but it makes sense that it was common now that I know he was a regular enlisted soldier. Thanks so much, Taylor

Hey, I used your site to figure out he was an Ulan to begin with, so thanks. Something I was confused with was the Fangschnur (just learned that word) types from the Ulan Plate 2. I thought it indicated that anyone with a Fangschnur was a type of officer, but it's clear to me now that everyone...

Wow this is super helpful. Definitely changes things to know he was a regular enlisted man. A problem I've noticed is that he was born November 1861, he would have reported for duty October 1881, and his three years would be up sometime in 1884. Census records indicate that he came to the US in...

Yeah I just can't figure out how to research all these weird ornaments and what they mean. I can't Google stuff like "2 cords hanging from shoulders" and have that mean anything. There must be some sort of very long German name to describe all this stuff that I don't know. What does having a...

Unfortunately I don't have the full original picture. I've been trying to track down the original photograph to see if there's information about where it was taken, but after 5 generations, it could be a lot of places.

Unfortunately I have no idea what town he was from. I only know his family ran an inn. I'm planning on heading to the mormon familysearch archives in Salt Lake City because they have a record that supposedly lists the name of every unteroffizier in the Bavarian army during this time. Maybe that...

I've recently been researching Imperial German uniforms in an attempt to gleam whatever information I can from this photo of my great great grandfather. This ended up leading me here so I thought I'd share: The only relevant information I know is that he was Bavarian, he was born in 1861, and...