THE ROYAL DIPLOMATKarl Max, Prince Lichnowsky was born in the Prussian Silesian town of Kreuzenort (now Krzyżanowice, Poland) on March 8, 1860.He became the sixth Prince and eighth Count Lichnowsky…
During the opening weeks of the war soldiers on all sides noted how empty the battlefields were. The Germans came up with a term to describe this; 'die Leere des…
Walter Blume was born on January 10, 1896 in Hirschberg, Silesia. A month after the Great War began, he was serving in the Fifth Silesian Jaeger Battalion. After being wounded…
On September 1st 1914 the regimental staff brought troopers to a place where several of their comrades on patrol had been ambushed by French soldiers. The surrounding terrain with woods,…
This week Sabine’s battlefield guide SaturdayLeo Mac Ghastley and Maria Biehl spies for the Germans or not ?Leo was born in Sacramento( US) in 1870 and his wife Maria Biehl…
Today on Gus' Gear, I have a Roth-Krnka M7, also know as a Roth Steyr M1907. It was the first auto loading pistol adopted by a major army in the…
The study of regimental diaries provides a good insight into soldiers experiences, tactics and how the different branches were used. In this case that of the cavalry. First a introduction…
He was a half-brother of the dowager Queen Emma of the Netherlands.Emma's mother Helena Wilhelmina Henriette Pauline Marianne of Nassau died in 1888, after which her father remarried Louise of…
Today on Gus' Gear I have an Austrian M1912 Steyr Hahn was adopted by the Austrian military in 1912. It is chambered for the Steyr 9x23mm cartridge and it has…
EARLY YEARSGeorg Wetzell was born in Nieder-Erlenbach, Oberhessen (in the Grand Duchy of Hesse) on March 5, 1869. At the age of twenty, he was a Fahnenjunker in the Pioneer…