What's the litzen on these guys travelling to Turkey?
Note also I think the Bulgarian flag.
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Chris Dale
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Hi Peter,
That's a very interesting photo. Do you know anything more about it? Where or when it was taken, what unit etc? I've never seen German troops wearing a mixture of Turkish and German uniforms like this.... and that the whole unit is wearing fezzes too... very odd.
The Litzen and Swedish cuffs would tend to indicate a Guards unit... difficult to say much more....
From the black and white photo it's difficult to be sure of the flags but they appear from left to right to be the Hapsburg, Turkish, Bulgarian and German flags... all the central powers...
I'd be very interested to hear what you or other readers make of it....
Cheers
Chris
That's a very interesting photo. Do you know anything more about it? Where or when it was taken, what unit etc? I've never seen German troops wearing a mixture of Turkish and German uniforms like this.... and that the whole unit is wearing fezzes too... very odd.
The Litzen and Swedish cuffs would tend to indicate a Guards unit... difficult to say much more....
From the black and white photo it's difficult to be sure of the flags but they appear from left to right to be the Hapsburg, Turkish, Bulgarian and German flags... all the central powers...
I'd be very interested to hear what you or other readers make of it....
Cheers
Chris
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I know very little about my father's service at Gallipoli, but the most detailed thing he told me about it was a quite detailed account of travelling by train in 1915, slipping thru Romania in civilian clothes. But the Romanians must have known who they were, I am sure a large bribe had been paid.
If they were traveling in uniform by train it must have been after about February 1916, when the track that the Serbs had thoroughly destroyed in their retreat was repaired. Some material and weapons got thru in November 1915 (a couple of batteries of heavy artillery and some much needed artillery shells that actually exploded upon impact), but must have been dragged overland some distance in the Balkans.
Bob Lembke
If they were traveling in uniform by train it must have been after about February 1916, when the track that the Serbs had thoroughly destroyed in their retreat was repaired. Some material and weapons got thru in November 1915 (a couple of batteries of heavy artillery and some much needed artillery shells that actually exploded upon impact), but must have been dragged overland some distance in the Balkans.
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They are not returning home. It is easy to understand it because of the joyful faces. Flags, tidy and new uniforms. They are happily celeprating the allianz. If they were returning home they would be tired, worn, müde, sad.
The train wagen on the picture remembered me my childhood. Until 1970's we had that kind of wagons in service in Istanbuler rail system They were beautiful. I still have the nostralgia.
The train wagen on the picture remembered me my childhood. Until 1970's we had that kind of wagons in service in Istanbuler rail system They were beautiful. I still have the nostralgia.