GERMAN WWI MODEL 1910 TRAIN BATTALION TUNIC, IDENTIFIED.

A very nice condition depot issued model 1910 tunic constructed in NCO or officers material at the clothing depot, ribbed material, 1910 configuration, 8 button closure with one button missing, all matching Prussian buttons. Swedish cuffs piped in blue, the collar is piped in blue with one of the front closing skirts piped in red, the rear Prussian style skirt also piped in red. Plain shoulder boards with what appear to be traces of red embroidered number ‘7’s, epaulettes are attached to tunic with company numbered buttons 2 which matches the stamping within the tunic of 2.E, why these number 7 from the shoulder boards were removed is unknown to us. NCO lace to the collar with NCO discs. Two front angled pockets with buttons. Standard depot issue lining in field grey green cotton. Profuse stampings, army group mark of ‘B.A.VII’ the date ‘1915’, a Detmold maker’s stamp, a further date of ‘1915’ with a ‘T.A.7’ marking indicating Train Abteilung 7. Evidence of an Iron Cross ribbon being removed from the 3rd button hole. Accompanying the tunic is the original owner’s Wehrpass with the name ‘Vice Feldwebel Hoffmann’ who was born in 1890, he began his service on the 15th August 1914, he was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class and two other Imperial awards. A good heavy ink stamping to the Wehrpass of ‘Westf.Train-ERS.-Abt 7 4.Eskadron’. Pages 8 and 9 full of his service record in WWI, pages 10 and 11 full of further details also 12 and 13. In 1918 it would appear that he transferred to Infantry Regiment 53, which may answer the question of why the numeral 7 had been removed from his shoulder boards. To the centre of the Wehrpass a fully typed up page showing the history of his service in WWI indicating that he was demobilised in 1919. It is extremely difficult and near impossible to find uniform items of WWI with the accompanying document of the owner. At the end of the Wehrpass there is a small handwritten note on the field printed heading of Infantry Regiment 53, again emphasising the reason why the embroidered number 7’s had been removed from his shoulder boards. Three accompanying photographs, which presumably Hoffmann is identified in, but which member in the photograph is Hoffmann is impossible to identify. A good studio photograph of three soldiers in field grey M.15 uniforms, one which we presume maybe Hoffmann.

Code: 80208