Odd photo Schutztruppe headgear

Chris Dale · Post by **Chris Dale** » 05 Jan 2006 17:10

Here's an odd photo I came across at http://www.imperialgermanphotographs.de
It shows a mounted trooper of the Kamerun Schutztruppe. What's odd is that he appears to be wearing a German East African askari's khaki covered tarbush rather than a Cameroon red fez.
Has anyone got any ideas as to why this would have happened?
Cheers
Chris

Cristiano de S.O Campos · Post by **Cristiano de S.O Campos** » 06 Jan 2006 15:02

Hi Chris

Maybe a wrong was occured in these photo, because in my opinion these soldier is a member of Schutztruppe in DOA . The khaki Fez and tarbusch show this.

Cheers Friend.

Cristiano.

Chris Dale · Post by **Chris Dale** » 06 Jan 2006 15:44

Hi Cristiano,
Thanks for your opinion. I thought maybe it was DOA, as you say and that the photo was just captioned wrongly. But if you look closely you can see the red chevrons on his lower sleeve, showing him to be wearing a Cameroon tunic. Also I've never seen the Schutztruppe in DOA mounted on good horses before.
Cheers
Chris

Cristiano de S.O Campos · Post by **Cristiano de S.O Campos** » 06 Jan 2006 16:53

Chris

I´m not was see the chevrons, is very strange, these chevrion is really used in uniforms in Kamerun.

I see german askaris in east africa mounted, i´m try to find these photo again.

Every photo, more surprises.

Cheers

Cristiano.

Chris Dale · Post by **Chris Dale** » 17 Jan 2006 04:18

Here's another photo (it's currently for sale at http://www.ebay.de , a search for Schutztruppe and Kamerun should find it). Again the caption says it's from Duala in Kamerun. This time there's a whole company with DOA tarbushes. It's difficult to make out for sure if they've got Kamerun red chevrons this time though.
Any thoughts?
Cheers
Chris

Cristiano de S.O Campos · Post by **Cristiano de S.O Campos** » 20 Jan 2006 21:44

Hi Chris

Strange

, more one photo from kamerun, but askaris using DOA fezzes.

About Chevorns used by germans, maybe thes chevrons was a member of medical NCO.

Maybe the gold chevrons is more darker than silver chevrons, isn´t?

And in these photo, because the black white, remember red chevrons.

Cheers

Cristiano.

Chris Dale · Post by **Chris Dale** » 20 Jan 2006 21:52

Hi Cristiano,
Yes, very strange... but I think the German NCOs have the normal Schutztruppe blue and silver chevrons. Everything looks dark against a white uniform.
Actually I've never seen a photo of medical NCOs with the gold chevrons...has anyone else?
Cheers
Chris

Reichskolonialamt · Post by **Reichskolonialamt** » 25 Jan 2006 16:15

These cameroon Askaris with Tarbusch are presumable the unit, which Hans Dominik enlisted 1894 in Egypt. The 100 man are uniformed alike the regulations for DOA.
Here is one more foto, dated April, 1894 "Hans Domink meldet an von Stetten die angetretene Sudanesenkompanie in Duala." It´s not the same scene as Chris postet on Jan, 17th., but a little bit similar...both at Duala.

The Sudaneses were not long in cameroon. Most of them suffered because of the climate. Some changed to the german east african Schutztruppe, some others quit the army and returned to egypt.

(Thanks for these informations to Wolf Herterich!)

Arne

Chris Dale · Post by **Chris Dale** » 25 Jan 2006 19:52

Thanks Arne (and Wolf),
I think you've found the answer. I guess some of them must have kept their tarbushes after the new Cameroon uniforms were issued as with the mounted guy at the top of this page.
Cheers
Chris

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