Misc German shoulder boards

Dane Jensen

Dane Jensen

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Hello all! Hope everyone is well, I had a question regarding some shoulder boards that have been in my collection for some time now.

I’ve been doing research on them recently but haven’t reached any conclusions.

I’ve been able to identify two of them, linking one to artillery and the other to a medic unit but haven’t gone any further then that.

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I’ve been using German Daggers as a resource but haven’t really found any others. If anyone knows of others, do share.

Some of them are in rough shape and some are missing the devices that would be on them. I bought them all together awhile back before I shipped out.

Any help in identifying them would be greatly appreciated!

Love y’all, thank you!
 
Dane Jensen said:
Hello all! Hope everyone is well, I had a question regarding some shoulder boards that have been in my collection for some time now.

I’ve been doing research on them recently but haven’t reached any conclusions.

I’ve been able to identify two of them, linking one to artillery and the other to a medic unit but haven’t gone any further then that.

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I’ve been using German Daggers as a resource but haven’t really found any others. If anyone knows of others, do share.

Some of them are in rough shape and some are missing the devices that would be on them. I bought them all together awhile back before I shipped out.

Any help in identifying them would be greatly appreciated!

Love y’all, thank you!
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Photo # 2 on the left is Fuss Artillery Regt 18 M1915
Steve
 
Hard to tell what exactly these boards are, some of them appears to me as later combined pieces.

For example, the base colour of the Assistenzarzt's shoulder board in P3 & P4 is wrong; it looks like the typical grey colour used by technical troops (in this case, Prussian technical units). The one with number "3" on it also makes no sense to me since it's a prewar shoulder board made of silver flat-lacing, but with a rank star and number made by matted material (probably zinc) attached. The one on the far right in P3 & P4 is a M1915 peace-time Prussian infantry officer's shoulder piece with nothing on it, so probably never used.

For the ones in P1 & P2, from left to right: A Hessian piece probably made for IR115, an unknown Prussian piece with white underlay but changed to blue??? Two Prussian pieces appears to me that were made of gold threads, so not for military.
 
Jvpi said:
Hard to tell what exactly these boards are, some of them appears to me as later combined pieces.

For example, the base colour of the Assistenzarzt's shoulder board in P3 & P4 is wrong; it looks like the typical grey colour used by technical troops (in this case, Prussian technical units). The one with number "3" on it also makes no sense to me since it's a prewar shoulder board made of silver flat-lacing, but with a rank star and number made by matted material (probably zinc) attached. The one on the far right in P3 & P4 is a M1915 peace-time Prussian infantry officer's shoulder piece with nothing on it, so probably never used.

For the ones in P1 & P2, from left to right: A Hessian piece probably made for IR115, an unknown Prussian piece with white underlay but changed to blue??? Two Prussian pieces appears to me that were made of gold threads, so not for military.
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The only thing that I would add is that the shoulder straps for an officer
of the Hessian L G I R 115 would have a silver tressa .The only photo that I have on file is this general.
SteveHessian General.jpeg
 
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