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A blog about Imperial Germany in 1914 during the Great War, Prussia, Bavaria, Wurt., and Saxony. Army Navy Aviation.

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    The infamous German Paris gun

    • Post author:joerookery
    • Post published:July 21, 2024
    • Post category:Artillery/Gottfried Alexander van der Horst/Weapons

    The infamous German Paris gun blasting away at Paris during the Spring Offensives in an attempt to subjugate the French and their will to keep on fighting.Though only 21cm in…

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    captured German A7V 542 ‘Elfriede’ holding the mounted MG08.

    • Post author:joerookery
    • Post published:June 29, 2024
    • Post category:Armor/Equipment/Gottfried Alexander van der Horst/Weapons

    A British Soldier sitting in the rear left gunner's seat of the captured German A7V 542 'Elfriede' holding the mounted MG08.A7V 542 'Elfriede' was originally issued to Abteilung.2 in early…

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    Askaris of the 4th Field Company in German East Africa

    • Post author:joerookery
    • Post published:May 31, 2024
    • Post category:Colonies/Gottfried Alexander van der Horst

    Askaris of the 4th Field Company in German East Africa, Kilimanjaro detachment, presenting their M/71 Jägerbüchsen.On April 1909 the Imperial German East African Schutztruppe decided to not convert to the…

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    Destroyed German Aerial engines

    • Post author:joerookery
    • Post published:May 12, 2024
    • Post category:Gottfried Alexander van der Horst/Things that Fly

    Shown here are destroyed German Aerial engines post Armistice in a German service depot.As the Aerial service was by the start of ww1 still in a relative infancy it was…

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    Gotha G.IV twin engine bomber

    • Post author:joerookery
    • Post published:March 7, 2024
    • Post category:Gottfried Alexander van der Horst/Things that Fly

    Imperial German Gotha G.IV twin engine bomber (1055/16) in the Royal Dutch Airforce base at Soesterberg.On 18 August 1917 this brand-new craft along with another were returning from a bombing…

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    BeuteKämpfwagen familiarization training

    • Post author:joerookery
    • Post published:February 21, 2024
    • Post category:Armor/Gottfried Alexander van der Horst/Training

    BeuteKämpfwagen familiarization training between the 1. Armee and 14. Kampfwagen abteilung.Seen here are 'Liesel' and 'Fritz' both from the 14. Kampfwagen Abteilung with soldiers from 5. Guards Infantry Division. It's…

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    The Battle of Taganrog. 8-14 June 1918.

    • Post author:joerookery
    • Post published:January 31, 2024
    • Post category:Gottfried Alexander van der Horst

    The Battle of Taganrog. 8-14 June 1918.After the Treaty of Brest Litovsk the war in East-Europe seemed over, but it was far from it as the Red Army kept attacking…

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    The Imperial German Heeresfeldbahn (Army field railway)

    • Post author:joerookery
    • Post published:October 16, 2023
    • Post category:Gottfried Alexander van der Horst

    HeeresfeldbahnThe Imperial German Heeresfeldbahn (Army field railway) was a special railway system developed by the Army and for the Army in the years preceding the war as Germany always knew…

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    Past Blogs

    • Belgian army les chasseurs a Pied / jagers te voet
    • Maxim gun
    • Doughboys on duty in 1918 part one
    • German hand search light units oder ‘ sheinwerferzuge’
    • German pow dying in France
    • The grenadiers ( Belgian army)at Steenstraete
    • A German ID tag ( erkennugmarken),
    • Sister Ursula’s diary for Nieuwkerke
    • British atrocities on the 25th of October 1914
    • A British POW buried in Torhout in 1917.
    • M1883 Reichsrevolver
    • Tool kit for the Chauchat automatic rifle
    • Turkish Mauser M1893
    • Italian Adrian based helmet, Lippman Model 1916
    • Italian Adrian helmet
    • Adrian helmets, these are Belgian
    • The helmet worn by the Metropolitan Infantry.
    • A very rare bayonet with quite a strange history
    • Some ephemera
    • French Engineer’s helmet
    • French Adrian Zouave helmet
    • Soldbuch and Wherpass
    • The infamous German Paris gun
    • French Adrian Chasseur helmet
    • The Stein of a Bavarian Hero
    • 25 pull fuses
    • French Adrian artillery helmet
    • Roth Steyr M1907
    • captured German A7V 542 ‘Elfriede’ holding the mounted MG08.
    • Imperial German Nahkampfmesser
    • T-Gewehr
    • German infantryman in late-war uniform
    • A bit of an enigma
    • Bayern Buckle Number 3.
    • M1892 12cm Howitzer
    • French soldiers preparing to execute a German POW.
    • Askaris of the 4th Field Company in German East Africa
    • Second Bavarian Buckle
    • Two Stormtroopers pose with their tools of trade
    • Two Stormtroopers pose with their tools of trade
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