Musée Royal de l'Armée et d'Histoire Militaire - Bruxelles

I just noticed, the numbers of the 212 hemet are painted, not stamped! I always wondered about going through the extra effort of providing units in company size their own helmet plates. But if the plates were blank and the numbers only added with a stencil then it all makes sense.

now that is an interesting theory! I have been looking without success either way -- the one in the Johansen book is cut out and even the fakes that I have are sort of cut out -- I do not know it certainly is an interesting theory.

a prussian cocarde and a replacement chin strap.

It certainly is not a Württemberg cockade. something has been messed with!
 
Does the helmet plate shown in the Johansen book also reveal a similar dotted surface structure as the ones in this thread? Maybe both possibilties were used, the units got a lot of helmets that were stamped by the producer, and another lot with empty plates that were used to add numbers with the stencil as required.

I made a new 1200 dpi scan of the picture I have from GMGA247 (after the old pictures were all taken with my camera). It actually does look like the plate is stamped, not painted. But on the other hand, if there are less than a dozen authentic GMGA helmets known and two of them have painting or no numbers at all, there may be some significance to the use of stencil painting.

Large helmet picture

Maybe I should also provide the full info given in the Württmeberg book about the divisions, as I just noticed something concerning another picture.

The book states that when GMGA250 was sent to the Serbian front Oct. 1st 1915, the following situation was present:

Generalfeldmarschall Mackensen had received the command over the troops on the Serbian front on September the 18th. These comprised the Austrian 3. Army, which was made up of the German XXII Reserve Korps (43. and 44. Reserve Divisions, 26. Württemberg Inf. Division) and the Austrian VIII and XIX Korps. Further, the German 11. Army (General v. Gallwitz) which consisted of the III. A.K. (6. Inf. Division and 25. Reserve Division), the IV. reserve Korps (105. inf. Division and Bavarian 11. Inf Division) and the X. Reserve Korps (101., 103. and 107. Inf Divisons).

The postcard I have of the member from GMGA238 had a stamp from the 11. Bav. Inf. Division, so this GMGA was evidently attached there (which makes sense according to the above info). If we had postcards from all GMGAs with divisional stamps we would finally know how they were all attached.
 
Here is the picture from page 60 of the Pickelhauben book.
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The entire order of battle thing has me frustrated! I added the 44th division and the 26th division to the order of battle after I did some research but there are still problems. Which corps was the 107th division in? There seems to be conflicting information. and look at the 122nd fusilier regiment- which division is it in during October 1915? We continued to get closer!
 
I did not know that there is a valid reference of this R22 plate. I suppose it is proven, allthough I wonder why it is referred to as "pewter".

The only information that I have is that the 122nd fusilier regiment was attached to the 26. Division (Württemberg) at the begin of the war, and to the 243. Division in March 1918. Generally Württemberg appears to be more active concerning military history there are more books on Württ. units and the archive has all personnel enlistments of FR 122 which can be ordered online (allthough I doubt that this would clear the location)

https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/olf/struktur.php?bestand=6099&klassi=001&anzeigeKlassi=001.001
 
I did not know that there is a valid reference of this R22 plate.

I am not sure how valid this 1982 reference is. I know that the recommendations for helmet maintenance drive Tony and others crazy and I know there are many mistakes in the book. So where is this helmet today??
 
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