Listen to your helmets....They may talk gently to you...

[joerookery]

Great read!

 

[stuka f]

Great post indeed!
=D>

 

[edwin]

Nice helmets and great history

Regards,

Edwin

 

[b.loree]

Yes, the ability to post fotos directly without using a host site like Photobucket has been taken away. Leaving things as they were would have eventually overwhelmed the amount of space available on the forum. Tony informed me about this and managed to go into the admin panel and turn this OFF. Being relatively ignorant of forum systems, I had no idea that this was even going on. I have always used Pbucket to host the fotos stored on my computer.

 

[kaiser]

I noticed it to about lo langer beeing able to post fotos directley ,but made myself a fotobucket account and made my first post with the mecklemburg helmet , so i think in worked out wel

philippe
If you can find anything about the name in my helmet would be greatfully appriciated,you can find it on the latest find section or do i post here a picture
Dont want to invade your thread with my helmet
Just have a look to it
Thanks

I just love it when there is more to find out of the person who was waering that helmet

Jonas

 

[ccj]

Thank you guys!

This way of collecting is simply fascinating me. You are purchasing more than the helmet. It´s like touching the soul of the wearer through his helmet.

This one was belonging to Offizierstellvertreter Karl Steinel, 8/RJR76:











First R76, then RJR76 II B:





Same kind of difficult and patient job to correctly decypher the name and the company number which are marked in the front visor: STEINEL 8/76





In the Verlust-Liste, this guy is immediatly tracked on page 1828, right column, 8. Kompanie, 37th name from the top (please use the zoom). He is mentioned as seriously wounded during the battle of the Oise, September 1914:

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At page 4843, a second information that says that STEINEL died on 9.10.14 in captivity
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Another mention of STEINEL on the web mentioning where he is buried (in ROUEN, Normandy):

And a pict of his grave, taken by a friend of mine:



And the results after consulting the Red Cross site on the web. STEINEL died because of a serious chest wound that could not heal:












Philippe

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This is one of my favorite helmets on the forum. It’s top notch quality with terrific research.