Tores Tuesday, the P-16 pistol.
Now, this iconic pistol is best known as the C96 and nicknamed the “red nine”, sometimes just inaccurately referred to as the Mauser Pistol, but rarely mentioned by its designation:…
Now, this iconic pistol is best known as the C96 and nicknamed the “red nine”, sometimes just inaccurately referred to as the Mauser Pistol, but rarely mentioned by its designation:…
Walter Nicolai was the first senior IC (Intelligence) Officer in the Imperial German Army. A supporter of the Great War, he ran the military secret service, Abteilung IIIb. According to…
This week Sabine's battlefield guide SaturdayThe attempt of the Belgian army to recapture KeiemOn the evening of 18 October 1914 the officers of the general headquarters discuss with the staff…
Today on Gus' Gear I will continue the story of Johannes Mäurer with a look at two newspaper clippings, the first from January of 1915 and the second from November…
I am going to show today an Ordensspange with a mix of medals from a small State in Thüringen, Preußen and Bayern. It has the following Decorations (whose names, I…
Having written about so many helmets over many weeks, I thought I’d keep on to the logical end: the M18, though I have less to say about it.As the M18…
Max Näther was born on August 24, 1899 in Tepliwoda, Silesia (the eastern part of the Kingdom of Prussia which is now part of Poland). At the age of only…
This week my blog is focused on a Belgian doctor, I was lucky to meet his son Jack several times when I was doing research in 2008 and 2009 for…
Today on Gus' Gear I will continue the story of Johannes Mäurer with two post cards sent to is father and uncle from the hospital in Magdaburg, as well as…
Beautiful picture of Chileans officers in Ecuador 1901. Who were instructors in the military academy , to reorganize their army in Prussian doctrine as Emile Körner did in Chile years…