Tore’s Tuesday - The incredible journey of a single rifle through history.One can safely assume that weapons used in a long and brutal war will have some dramatic history, but…
PEEBLES PROFILESEPISODE XXVIIRichard StumpfCHRISTIAN, JOURNEYMAN, SEAMANBorn February 20, 1892 in Grafenberg, Bavaria, Richard Stumpf was a Roman Catholic, tinsmith, and member of a Christian trade union. For six years, he…
Officer Corps 12-Reserve and Landwehr Officers-Wartime Officers-RetirementReserve and Landwehr OfficersThe active-duty officers described above differed significantly from reserve officers. Active officers received their commissions and with that honor went a…
Today on Gus' Gear I present another Austrian uniform. This is a K.u.K Kriegsmarine uniform worn by Alfons Bartsch. He was born in 1890 and entered service as a seaman…
Kyler's Kaiserliche Marine BlogPost #4: Admiral Maximilian von SpeeAdmiral Maximilian Johannes Maria Hubert Reichsgraf von Spee was born on June 22nd, 1861 in Denmark. He would spend his youth in…
Tore’s Tuesday again, and with an obscure item this time too, a French one. The Raquette handgrenade.There were a myriad of handgrenades used during WWI (A A Gustaf Bryngelson has…
PEEBLES PROFILES EPISODE XXVIWolfgang KappEARLY LIFEWolfgang Kapp, a Prussian civil servant and journalist, was born on July 24, 1858 in New York City, where his father Friedrich Kapp (a political…
Chilean Army General Arturo Ahumada Bascuñán who fought for Germany in WW1He entered the Military School in 1888. He fought in the Civil War of 1891 and was reinstated in…
One Year Volunteer-2After completing his year of service, the OYV was granted leave from his service as a Gefreiter with the obligation of completing two reserve exercises of eight weeks…
oday on Gus' Gear I present an Austrian uniform that I acquired while visiting a friend in 1972. My friend's father asked me to help clean the attic in his…