Need help finding info on the Inf. - Regt. Von Voigts - Rhetz (3. Hannoversches) Nr.79

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GeorgJunge

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I need some help finding what type of plate the 79th Von Voigts Rhetz Infantry regiment use, currently I portray the 73rd Fusiliers, but would like to make a change, and I'm currently struggling to find where I could buy a reproduction plate to use for the 79th.
 
IR79 wore a standard gilt Line eagle Wappen.

Go to this link, scroll down to IR79

http://www.kaisersbunker.com/gtp/New/infantry1.htm

You can find an original gilt Line eagle easily.
 
Yes, classic line eagle.

This is one of mine, found in the family barn, in the village of Bierbergen, near Hildesheim, late 2019. It cames with wearer picts, Militärpass and much more other documents of the guy.

Wilhelm ADENSTEDT was wounded in Congy, early September 1914 during the first Battle of the Marne. He was in the 10/JR79:










Two pictures of his military service time at the 4/JR79 (1906-1908) in Hildesheim:





Philippe
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Philippe, that is so cool to have all the photos and documents to go with the helmet! That certainly looks like the same helmet in that bottom photo!
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Great photos.

Interesting that he was a Kaiser Prize winner. The 4th Company won the prize in 1906 so I assume that is when those photos were taken.
 
Steve Nick said:
Interesting that he was a Kaiser Prize winner. The 4th Company won the prize in 1906 so I assume that is when those photos were taken.
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You are absolutely right!! =D> Wilhelm ADENSTEDT has done his active duty October 1906 - September 1908.
The 5th Company won the price 1904.
Enlisted men wore this "Abzeichen" one year long, the officers as long as they stood in this company.

Philippe
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cptbob said:
Philippe, that is so cool to have all the photos and documents to go with the helmet! That certainly looks like the same helmet in that bottom photo!
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I wish it could be this way but I do not think so.
ADENSTEDT was mobilized August 1914 as a Wehrmann (I Ban) in the 10/JR79 and I am pretty sure he got this helmet at this time first.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/715989



As enlisted men moved to the Reserve and then to the Landwehr after their active duty, they were not sent home with helmets which remained property of the unit.

Here is a period pict of ADENSTEDT´s home in Bierbergen with his wife and three of his four children. All those things were recently found in this house:



Wilhelm ADENSTEDT died on the 12.03.1964 in the city of Peine.

Here a pict of him at the Ersatz-Bataillon JR79 in Hildesheim, early 1915, as he returned from his convalescence after been wounded on the 06.09.1914. He is sitting in the middle:



During wartime, ADENSTEDT was most of the time in many differents Lazaretts, then again in some Ersatz-Bataillonen or Genesendenkompanien because he suffered from heavy rheumatism. Finally, November 1917, he was officially classified as "garnisonfähig Etappe" (duty only in the garrison) because of his health. He promoted to Unteroffizier on the 29.3.17 and was probably responsible for the military formation of young recruits. This pict is showing him at this time as an Unteroffizier:



He was then sent home on the 13.7.18. He was slaughter in the civilian life.

Mister ADENSTEDT and his wife Anna, born HIMSTEDT, from the same village of Bierbergen:



Philippe
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