Chris' Curious RegimentsThe tiny Waldeck contingent and a Hessian regiment that had served in both the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion in Scotland and the American Revolution!83rd Infantry Regiment "von Wittich" (3rd…
Georg Michaelis was the chancellor of Imperial Germany for just under four months in 1917. He was the first chancellor not of noble birth to hold the office. With an…
Rui's RenditionsUnused, undated postcard showing a young infantryman in marching order armed with a semi-automatic Mauser C96. Late war period.This photo provides an excellent view of the C96's shoulder stock.Original…
Chris' Curious RegimentsThe oldest Prussian regiment wasn't the 1st, 2nd or 3rd Grenadiers but strangely the 4th...4th Grenadier Regiment "King Frederick the Great" (3rd East Prussian)The Grenadier-Regiment König Friedrich der…
EARLY YEARSBorn in the Tsarist Russian capital of Saint Petersburg on November 27, 1864, Alfred William Moritz Meyer was the eighth of ten children belonging to Friedrich Meyer and Dorothy…
Last week, I presented my only Waffenrock (for now) and talked a bit about the history of the Royal Bavarian Leib Regiment, just before the start of the World War…
Maximilian “Max” Wilhelm Gustav Moritz von Prittwitz und Gaffron was born in Bernstadt (now Bierutów, Poland) in Prussian Silesia on November 27, 1848. The young Prittwitz came from aristocracy; his…
April 17th 1915Pilot Wilhelm Wolmacher and his observer Lt. Joseph Seeboth encounter a British aircraft during a reconnaissance above the front north of Boezinge. A gunfight breaks out at an…
Rui's RenditionsA German MG 08 machine gun section advances up an embankment on the Montdidier-Noyon sector during Operation Gneisenau, 8-14 June 1918.Operation Gneisenau, also known as Battle of the Matz,…
As the 92nd Infantry seemed so popular last week, here's their sister cavalry regiment.17th Brunswick Hussar RegimentThe Braunschweigisches Husaren-Regiment Nr.17 was the only cavalry formation of the Duchy of Brunswick…