Barbed wire

[Paranoid_Womb]

Found a nice card showing a pile of barbed wire bobbins.

The musiker has drumstick and a hanger, but what it in that pouch next to it? Enlighten me please.

I was wondering if someone has even seen the cap badge on scene before (see close-up below). These guys are from the 30th Landwehr-Inf.-Reg.

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Here's another one: laying the wire (at the eastern front, note the muskitonets)

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[stuka f]

The musiker has drumstick and a hanger, but what it in that pouch next to it? Enlighten me please.

Just a wild guess...; a flute!?

 

[stuka f]

It nearly looks as they never changed place....(here is a nearly 100 years later pic!)
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[Paranoid_Womb]

Thanks for sharing that picture. Drakegoodman has already solved the pouch-issue by the way: M1911 wire cutters. Makes sense...