Rui’s rendition: Three German soldiers in body armor
Three German soldiers in body armor demonstrate the use of a 2 cm Becker-Flugzeugkanone Type M2 mounted on an anti-aircraft platform. Late war periodThe Becker Type M2 began mass production…
Three German soldiers in body armor demonstrate the use of a 2 cm Becker-Flugzeugkanone Type M2 mounted on an anti-aircraft platform. Late war periodThe Becker Type M2 began mass production…
This week Sabine's battlefield guide Saturday :A German Medical officer about the life in the trenchesThe master baker Clemens Bedbur (1883-1936) from Jülich was a soldier of the RIR 68…
A while back I presented a Gewehr 88 that was given to the Ottoman Empire by the Germans during WWI. That one is fitted with rear sights where the standard…
Another of my favourite Medal Bars. Since I started collecting “Bavarian Stuff”, I always wanted to have the combination of these two Baden and Bavarian Orden.It has the following order:-…
EARLY YEARSMax Hermann Bauer was born in Quedlinburg on January 31, 1869. He began to study medicine in Berlin, but then enlisted as an officer candidate in Foot Artillery Regiment…
This Week Sabine's battlefield guide Saturday is going back to Zillebeke, we were there in December last year ( 26/122/2020 blog), and for some reason I didn't use the following…
A pre/early-war unused postcard depicting an anonymous Ulan in the typical uniform: the double-breasted ‘Ulanka’ with Polish cuffs.Instead of a Tschapka, this man is wearing a krätchen in pre-early/war colors.According…
EARLY LIFE AND CAREERThe son of a colonel in the Prussian Army, Karl Friedrich Max von Müller was born in Hanover on June 16, 1873. After attending gymnasium at Hanover…
This week on Bandow's Best, I want to share this image. This real photo postcard of a member of the Garde Kürassiers was sitting for sale on the Collector's Guild…
This Week Sabine’s battlefield guide Saturday is going back to Zonnebekeeveryday life winter 14-15 in Zonnebekethe landscape : when the French arrived in October 1914, the region around Ieper still…