Lets see your Train helmets!

Tony without Kaiser said:
Perhaps reissued to Luftschiffer-Bataillon Nr.1.
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Thanks I never thought of them, but wouldn't they have silver fitting and Guard star Wappen. From what I can tell (from the ghost) it has always had an Eagle on it, there are no extra holes (I don't believe the Wappen on it is the original one to the shako). I think the chin strap post are original to the shako and they are brass. I would be trilled if that is who wore this.
 
Yes, the standard troops would be silver etc. of course. Still a possibility for support troops. For example, in a Husaren Regt. the supply, cooks, medics etc. didn't wear Pelzmützen.
 
Tony without Kaiser said:
Yes, the standard troops would be silver etc. of course. Still a possibility for support troops. For example, in a Husaren Regt. the supply, cooks, medics etc. didn't wear Pelzmützen.
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Now this is a topic that is at least 3 beers long. I'm aware that medical were Militärebeamte and wore the appropriate head gear. I assume that supply would be uniformed as such and would be part of the "Train Battalion". What about cooks? I assume that none of these troops were actually members of "the Regiment" but attached to it. Were they members of the Train? I know back in the days of Alt Fritz there was a Commissary Corps that included bakers and cooks, what was there during the Kaiserzeit?

Thanks
 
Oh at least three beers!

Anyway for starters: Medical officers were just that: since 1873, commissioned officers but prior to that military officials.

The military cooks were regimental personnel assigned for that purpose from the unit‘s companies, squadrons and batteries under the supervision of a NCO - the Küchenunteroffizier.

Military bakers were NCOs and soldiers of the Train branch detached to military bakeries under the auspices of the local Proviantamt (military provisions office).

Regards
Glenn
 
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