This week’s Sabine’s battlefield guide Saturday, going German for the first time, remember I am not even a native English speaker so for sure I will have made mistakes in…
Time once again for Bandow's Best!This week's real photo post card shows soldiers of Schlesisches Pionier-Bataillon Nr. 6 (Neiße) on June 20th, 1913. To me, the really neat aspect of…
YOUNG SOLDIER TURNED PILOTKurt Robert Wilhelm Wolff was born on February 6, 1895 in Greifswald, Pomerania. He was orphaned as a child and was raised by relatives in Memel, East…
Today for Gus' Gear I have an interesting British pistol, the Webley MKI automatic pistol in .455 caliber produced for the navy contract. This is a short post as I…
A rather short blog today, but still of interest, I hope.In 1916 the Italian army purchased M15 Adrian helmets from France. Not to be confused with the Italian made Adrian…
A German ‘Gefreiter’ from German South-West Africa Schtuztruppe, WWI periodMen such as this one fought not only the South Africans in Namibia but also the Portuguese in Angola in a…
EARLY YEARSLudwig Maximilian Erwin Richter was born on January 21, 1884 in the Russian city of Riga. He was the son of a German musician and a Baltic German mother.The…
The first aerial photo of the pyramids was taken by a Rumpler C1 1838/15 from Fliegerabteilung 300, which was part of the Pasha I deployment of German forces to Palestine.The…
Today on Gus' Gear I have an interesting light machine gun. It is a demilitarized example of the Hotchkiss M1909 Benét–Mercié machine gun, chambered for the British .303 cartridge. Also…
Time to talk about another of my Colonial „Ordensspange“. This one has the following decorations:- Eisernes Kreuz II Klasse (Preußen).- Militär-Verdienst Kreuz 2. Klasse mit Schwertern (Bayern) – Maker: Weiss…