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From: "Dean Wittke" <>
Subject: Re: Military uniform -- any experts?
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 15:35:32 -0800
References: <3E120AE3.9040306@chronology.org>


Check is this site, it has hundreds of images of German early uniforms:
http://www.grosser-generalstab.de/sturm/index.html with dates.
It is in German, so you may want to use babelfish.altavista.com to translate
the results for you.




"Lawrence King" <> wrote in message
news:...
> My great-great-grandfather, Johann Georg Maier, was born in Biberach
> (south of Ulm) in 1842.
>
> My mother just found a photograph of him wearing a military uniform.
> He looks about 30 years old, so we can't be sure if this was taken
> before or after 1871.
>
> I'm wondering if anyone recognizes the uniform. Is this a uniform of
> the Kingdom of Wuerttemberg or of Imperial Germany? Can anyone tell
> the rank?
>
> I've placed the photo at:
>
> http://www.chronology.org/genealogy/photos.html
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
>
> Lawrence King
> Seattle, Washington
>


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