This week Sabine’s battlefield guide Saturday is going to the area around Boezinge to see the German actions. Most regimental German histories are pretty expensive to buy, I only had…
Rui’s RenditionsA soldier from Badisches Train-Bataillon Nr.14The choice of 5th Company’s green for the faustriemen is for demonstration purposes only as the grey tones could also indicate yellow for the…
A couple of years ago, I came across an “Ordensspange” with one medal missing. The combination was somewhat weird, with one of the medals not matching the logical combination of…
In this final installment on the Gewehr 88 sent by Germany to the Ottoman (Osman) empire, I will have to go a bit beyond WWI. Thank you for your patience…
EARLY YEARSFriedrich Bertram Sixt von Armin was born in Wetzlar (an exclave of the Rhine Province in Prussia) on November 27, 1851. After leaving school in 1870, he enlisted in…
Civilians were more often suspected of espionage than soldiers. If one lit a candle at night when a cow calved, the farmer was immediately arrested and taken for interrogation. He…
Rui's RenditionsA middle-aged German Landwehr’s soldier. Great War period.Equipment includes ersatz ammo pouches, an ersatz or civilian belt, a Gew88 rifle with a sawback blade bayonet (Seitengewehr 84/98 neuer Art…
Sorry to have such a monomaniacal focus one one single type of German WWI rifle, as supplied to the Ottoman Empire. I will not drag you through all my Gew88,…
We continue today with a present, that I received from a very good person and collector, Mr. Andreas Jäger, Thank you Sir. It is a very interesting picture of a…
MILITARY RISEOtto Ernst Vinzent Leo von Below was born in Danzig (now Gdańsk) on January 18, 1857. At the age of eighteen, he entered the Imperial German Army. After three…