There is always some confusion in the Hessen/Nassau vicinity and evidently it extended into the Landwehr as well. Besides some nice steel helmets these fellows display a mixture of plates and cockades. Particularly you can also see both state cockades worn in parallel. Some don't even have a state cockade at all. The men don't seem to be very concerned about this though.
I don't know much about LIR 87 at all. It seems that their garnisons were located in Mainz and Worms, which would mean that unlike their parent regiment they were actually raised in Hessen-Darmstadt. It also seems more likely that Prussia provided helmets for a Hessian unit with preliminarily incomplete state markings than finding Hessian markings on a Prussian unit.
On the other hand, the picture was taken in Hofheim/Taunus according to the tablet, which was located in Hessen-Nassau. The card is addressed to Sindlingen am Main (today a destrict of Frankfurt/Main) which belonged to Hessen-Nassau as well.
LIR87 fought at the Hartwannsweilerkopf during 1916-1918 but I have no information about their activities in 1915. Probably they were in training because some men still have M71 rifles.
I don't know much about LIR 87 at all. It seems that their garnisons were located in Mainz and Worms, which would mean that unlike their parent regiment they were actually raised in Hessen-Darmstadt. It also seems more likely that Prussia provided helmets for a Hessian unit with preliminarily incomplete state markings than finding Hessian markings on a Prussian unit.
On the other hand, the picture was taken in Hofheim/Taunus according to the tablet, which was located in Hessen-Nassau. The card is addressed to Sindlingen am Main (today a destrict of Frankfurt/Main) which belonged to Hessen-Nassau as well.
LIR87 fought at the Hartwannsweilerkopf during 1916-1918 but I have no information about their activities in 1915. Probably they were in training because some men still have M71 rifles.