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I also just wanted to post a little more info I received from one of the online military experts that I had sent copies of those two Spohr family photos of the soldiers. Although he wasn’t able to give a lot more new info about the soldier in the photo, he did give some cool details. Here is what he wrote me about these photos:
“The uniform appears to be that of a pre-WW1 Austro-Hungarian Zugsführer (sergeant), which makes sense as Teplitz and Carlsbad were then part of Bohemia and subsequently part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Impossible to get a regiment or unit I.D. from the pictures unfortunately.
The braided cord with 5 woolen balls is a marksmanship cord or Schützenauszeichnung.
Hope this helps a little.”
The other person who I sent copies of my photos to also identified him as a Sergeant, and sent me a link, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austro-Hungarian_Army#Ranks_and_rank_insignias_of_the_Austria-Hungarian_Army, to an article about the Austro-Hungarian rank insignias (the stars on their collars). Too bad it’s a black and white photo, or we may have been able to identify a little more info about his rank.
I don’t know much about military research at all – especially not European military – but now this has got me wondering if there are records that I could search through that might list the names of the sergeants – if I found one at the right time and location with a surname of Spohr (or one of the other family surnames), we just might be able to identify this soldier. Don’t know if that can be done. We’ll see.
“The uniform appears to be that of a pre-WW1 Austro-Hungarian Zugsführer (sergeant), which makes sense as Teplitz and Carlsbad were then part of Bohemia and subsequently part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Impossible to get a regiment or unit I.D. from the pictures unfortunately.
The braided cord with 5 woolen balls is a marksmanship cord or Schützenauszeichnung.
Hope this helps a little.”
The other person who I sent copies of my photos to also identified him as a Sergeant, and sent me a link, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austro-Hungarian_Army#Ranks_and_rank_insignias_of_the_Austria-Hungarian_Army, to an article about the Austro-Hungarian rank insignias (the stars on their collars). Too bad it’s a black and white photo, or we may have been able to identify a little more info about his rank.
I don’t know much about military research at all – especially not European military – but now this has got me wondering if there are records that I could search through that might list the names of the sergeants – if I found one at the right time and location with a surname of Spohr (or one of the other family surnames), we just might be able to identify this soldier. Don’t know if that can be done. We’ll see.
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