Hannoversche Soldaten 1800-1918
Rekruten und Ausbilder mit Blinkgerät, zum Teil 1. Hannoversches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 74, Lehrgang für Melder im Feld-Rekruten-Depot
These young recruits and their older instructors have assembled around a Blinkgerät – an optical device with which one may transfer messages between two points with eye-contact by using Morse-signs as light-signals. The picture was taken during a course at a Feld-Rekruten-Depot, one oft he young men wears the 74 on his shoulder boards indicating he most likely served in the 1. Hanoverian infatry-regiment No. 74. At least one ot the others wears a different number. So this is likely a course for men from different regiments. The picture was taken in the summer of 1918 – the worst is still to come…
Rekruten und Ausbilder mit Blinkgerät, zum Teil 1. Hannoversches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 74, Lehrgang für Melder im Feld-Rekruten-Depot
These young recruits and their older instructors have assembled around a Blinkgerät – an optical device with which one may transfer messages between two points with eye-contact by using Morse-signs as light-signals. The picture was taken during a course at a Feld-Rekruten-Depot, one oft he young men wears the 74 on his shoulder boards indicating he most likely served in the 1. Hanoverian infatry-regiment No. 74. At least one ot the others wears a different number. So this is likely a course for men from different regiments. The picture was taken in the summer of 1918 – the worst is still to come…