German Trans-Causcasus Expedition 1918

Mad Zeppelin · Post by **Mad Zeppelin** » 26 Mar 2007 17:09

It was a howitzer detachment, but I don't know whether FH 98/09 or FH 16 (one should suppose the latter, if they didn't have some mountain guns). - II./ResFAR 65, by the way.

Mad Zeppelin · Post by **Mad Zeppelin** » 27 Mar 2007 11:50

Correction to my last entry: It appears that the abbrevation is not FH but simply F, which means Fahrzeug (vehicle), thus indicating that II./ResFAR 65 was lorry mounted. The only lorry mounted gun I know is the good old FK 96 n.A., being the most leightweight of all.

Carlos Marighela · Post by **Carlos Marighela** » 27 Mar 2007 14:48

MZ Sorry to be a pest but does this suggest the guns were porteed ( ie actually transported on the vehicle) mounted on a fixed SP mounting ( ala some of the Flak weapons) or merely vehicle towed? I'm guessing it means the latter, vehicle towed.

Mad Zeppelin · Post by **Mad Zeppelin** » 27 Mar 2007 16:05

It means - to my knowledge - put into the cargo bay of a lorry without special mount, just the gun on its wheels put on the platform. Could be fired from the platform (that had been tested out already on the western front) or could be rolled off the platform and used in the normal ground role.
The version 'towed by a lorry', I've not seen yet for German WW1 field artillery. (Although it was common practise for the foot artillery.)

Carlos Marighela · Post by **Carlos Marighela** » 28 Mar 2007 02:25

Portees it is then. Again many thanks.

Peter H · Post by **Peter H** » 28 Mar 2007 09:26

Photos from:

http://www.wehrmacht-awards.com/forums/ ... hp?t=53386

Couresty of Rick Research via the Bavarian Main State Archive-War Archive.

..the Bavarian 4. Chevaulegers Regiment, here being unloaded in Poti harbor, in the Menshevik Democratic Republic of Georgia, from 6 to 8 September 1918

Peter H · Post by **Peter H** » 28 Mar 2007 09:28

...officers from Sturm Baon. 10 overseeing interrogation of Muslim irregulars. Despite the Elbonian "fuzzy gumdrop" headgear, the three men in the light colored tunics are Turkish uniformed regulars

Peter H · Post by **Peter H** » 28 Mar 2007 09:30

...the Tiflis funeral of 2nd Company, 1st Bavarian Reserve Jäger Bataillon Oberjäger Alois Hitzler, mortally wounded in a scrap at Emir on 13 June 1918, who died on 8 July.

Behind the hearse next to the elderly Georgian officer is German Mission General Staff chief Jenö von Egan-Krieger (later a Luftwaffe Generalleutnant) and the tall officer with hands clasped behind his back, wearing the first version Order of Saint Tamara awarded to him in 1917 as commander of the Muslim-deserter "Georgian Legion ( ! ) is Hauptmann der Reserve Friedrich W. Graf von der Schulenburg (German Ambassador to the Soviet Union when Hitler invaded, and later executed for involvement with the 20 July 1944 plotters)

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Peter H · Post by **Peter H** » 28 Mar 2007 09:31

These are members of the Georgian army, at a now unknown station.

Peter H · Post by **Peter H** » 16 Dec 2010 08:03

From ebay,seller antique_art_paper

Peter H · Post by **Peter H** » 26 Feb 2011 10:01

From Chris' website: http://www.germancolonialuniforms.co.uk/

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