Bekleidungs Vorschrift April 1916

joerookery

joerookery

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This is just an interesting picture I picked up recently from the change to the regulation in April 1916 for clothing. I have always referred to the AKO for the changes which of course has no pictures. While the text is nothing to get excited about this is where the officer's M15 types were authorized. What I find most interesting about this picture is not the spike etc. but rather of the rosette and how it is mounted. We have seen these before but I always thought they were the minority. The picture in the regulation however shows that as the only way. Interesting.


bek1916 by joerookery, on Flickr
 
Joe,

well done on acquiring that. I have yet to come across a copy of wartime "official" dress regulations for officers in any of the libraries and archives that I visit in Germany (or for that matter) from any bookseller!

A rarity indeed.

Regards
Glenn
 
Okay if turnabout is fair play I will try to scan this this week. Not really all that many pages–in very good shape–but not bound. Loose pages with many of the reverse sides blank. I will let you know when I finish it. Even though we are not having great luck this should fit in the dropbox.
 
All of the scans are in the drop box Jewison. I would ask your indulgence to see if you can join them into a PDF. It is difficult to understand what exactly was intended with these or this. having handled them in the process I will now describe it as a group of papers. Basically brand-new, printed only on one side, not bound, only one section connected. It is totally unusable in its current form. Any electronic copy will be a massive improvement. I have no idea what they would have done with this. It was not printed to be able to stand alone. You cannot make pencil corrections because of the pictures. Paste it into the 1911 document??? While there is a great deal of clothing information I would basically call this a mess. B #-o rand-new sort of out of the wrapper but I have no idea how it was intended to be utilized. #-o #-o
 
Joe,

I have already pdf'd it and will put it back in the dropbox folder. The 1916 is basically a set of amendments to the 1911 version and that is what the paragraph numbers refer to.

Thanks
Glenn
 
Thanks for sharing! I completely missed this.

Note that the regulations also states that the Husarenmütze and Tschako are to use the same model 1916 chin straps. I never saw any of these.
 
I add my thanks to Joe for sharing this. Very interesting document. I wonder if these particular chinscales were used on officer Tschapkas. I cannot remember seeing one.
Bruno
 
Thank-you for including me in your mail-out Joe. A fascinating little document that will come in handy when I'm trying to construct one of my half-arsed narratives on Flickr.

I particularly like the regulations covering the accoutrements like map-cases and binoculars. That kind of detail is more often than not overlooked in books and online references.

Again - thank-you.

Warm regards,

Brett
 
You are welcome. I would be glad to send it to anyone else who would have use for it. I bought it, scanned it, Glen put it together. Not sure anyone has seen/used this before in a book. The copyright has long expired. And as I have said repeatedly it is completely unusable in its original format. Not exactly up everyone's alley but it can be useful.

By the way you need to put up another avatar. Your old one has disappeared.
 
joerookery said:
By the way you need to put up another avatar. Your old one has disappeared.
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I wanted a change of scenery, but the avatar I chose was too big. When I reduced it, it kind of lost it's appeal so I deleted it. I'll come up with something soon.
 
Yes it was interesting. Someone has one...donot remember who...maybe Chas. Dave Mosher had a Bavarian that opened and shut spike base vents by turning the spike itself.
 
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