Signallers from Oldenburgisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr.91 pose with the tools of their trade (Blinkgerät)
Letter on reverse (below) authored in Oldenburg on 26 Oct 1917 with postage cancelled a day later. Photogr. Carl Kniep Inf-Reg. 91.
Signallers from Oldenburgisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr.91 pose with the tools of their trade.
Signal lamps were were widely used in the forward areas and these were of three types, all easily portable. The large, medium and small patterns of this equipment had ranges of 6000 metres, 3000 metres and 900 metres respectively.
The 19th Infantry Division participated in the Liège and the subsequent Allied Great Retreat, including the First Battle of the Marne and the First Battle of the Aisne. It was sent to the Eastern Front in 1915 and again in 1916, seeing action in the Gorlice-Tarnów Offensive and the Russian Brusilov Offensive. It returned to the Western Front and after a period in the trenches saw action in the German 1918 Spring Offensive and the subsequent Allied counteroffensives, including the Hundred Days Offensive.
The Division was rated a first class division and regarded as one of the best German divisions by Allied intelligence.
Signallers from Oldenburgisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr.91 pose with the tools of their trade (Blinkgerät)
Letter on reverse (below) authored in Oldenburg on 26 Oct 1917 with postage cancelled a day later. Photogr. Carl Kniep Inf-Reg. 91.
Signallers from Oldenburgisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr.91 pose with the tools of their trade.
Signal lamps were were widely used in the forward areas and these were of three types, all easily portable. The large, medium and small patterns of this equipment had ranges of 6000 metres, 3000 metres and 900 metres respectively.
The 19th Infantry Division participated in the Liège and the subsequent Allied Great Retreat, including the First Battle of the Marne and the First Battle of the Aisne. It was sent to the Eastern Front in 1915 and again in 1916, seeing action in the Gorlice-Tarnów Offensive and the Russian Brusilov Offensive. It returned to the Western Front and after a period in the trenches saw action in the German 1918 Spring Offensive and the subsequent Allied counteroffensives, including the Hundred Days Offensive.
The Division was rated a first class division and regarded as one of the best German divisions by Allied intelligence.