GERMAN WWI BAVARIAN RESERVE JAGER BATTALION NO.1. MACHINE GUN CORPS COMPANY OFFICERS TUNIC GROUP.

The grouping belonged to 2nd Leutnant Ludwig Hoeger from Jettenbach am Inn in upper Bavaria. The set consists of his fine quality officers tunic with Bavarian lion buttons to the front, angled slashed pockets, standard 0/10 pattern Prussian style rear skirt, all complete with its matched Bavarian buttons facing each other. The tunic front, collar, cuffs and rear skirt all piped in green. Officers shoulder boards having green underlay with gilt ‘1’ to the centre of each board. To the buttonhole his medal ribbons for the Bavarian Merit Cross and the Iron Cross 2nd class. Medal loops to the breast pocket probably for the 1st class Iron Cross. Officer quality cloth lining to the interior with large lower inner pocket. Accompanying the tunic is his original officers Bavarian Reserve shako plate with the orb missing to the crown and the bullion blue and silver shako field cockade. Good quality gilding remaining to the plate. Accompanied by a photograph of Hoeger when he was a one year volunteer, which was between 1903 and 1906. A large framed photograph of the 1st Machine Gun Battalion in Augsburg in 1907 and a WWI period postcard of him and his men with unit details pencil written to the reverse. The tunic has one button missing, (spare button supplied in one of the lower pockets) and a couple of minor moth nips and period repairs to the interior lining but generally an excellent good grouping. The whole group is accompanied by a 2013 correspondence between the original seller to a U.K. based collector confirming that it was the tunic of 2nd Leutnant Ludwig Hoeger, he stated ‘he was the brother of my grandmother born in 1884 in Jettenbach and died July 1978’. A good attributed grouping to a rare unit.

Code: 78006