Post your foreign volunteers...

[Tommy]

Here i think it is a tschetnik. This is one photo what i have in my collection.

[D. Löwenhamn]

Could I please see a close up of the badge on the arm of that soldier who stand to the left?

Best regards/ Daniel

[Luc]

Flemish Legion



regards
Luc
www.military.be

[Luc]

[Denis]

Hello
Nice stuff. Here are some photos. Please note that they were retrieved on the web some months (years) ago. They will be credited if the original owner drop me an email.

1st : Latvian volunteers
Note the soldier on the right (NCO candidate ?) who wears collar patches, shoulders straps, national emblem and flag patch against regulations. He is wearing a first pattern latvia patch while the solider on the left wears the standard one issued to WSS troops. Note also that no specific LAtvian collar patches are seen.

[Denis]

2nd one : Russian volunteer

[Denis]

Estonian SS volunteer (as depicted by the Collar patch) wearing the Field Grey wrapper !!!

[Denis]

Latvian or Estonian paramilitary unit (no more details since I haven't got any of my books with me)

[Denis]

Ukrainian SS volunteers from the 14. SS Galizien Division.
Note the use of both blank and specila collar patch (this latter one bearing the stylized lion, emblem of the Ukrainian volunteers).
Some soliders are also shown wearing the nationality patch.

[Denis]

Ukrainian SS officers

[Denis]

Ukrainian General Shandruk (spelling ?)

[Denis]

2 Latvian officers, both wearing a Field Grey wrapper !! Note at least one of them (the Stubaf.) is seemingly wearing a double-svaz collar patch .
This Sturmbannführer is :
GALDINS NIKOLAJS
DoB : 09/10/1902
DoD : 1945 in Soviet captivity (hanged ?)
Last rank : SS OSTUBAF.
Last unit : Kdr. SS GRE. RGT. 42 (19. SS GRE. DIV.)
EK1 : 02/02/1944
DKiG : 19/10/1944
RK : 25/01/1945 as Ostubaf. Kdr. SS GRE. RGT. 42 (19. SS GRE. DIV.)

[Denis]

Turkistani volunteer

[Akira Takiguchi]

Detail of Turkistan arm shield.

Also a related thread: http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...threadid=20913

[Akira Takiguchi]

Not actually "foreign volunteers" but can anybody tell me about the soldiers in the picture below?

<a href="http://www.history.jp/images/Hotchkiss.jpg"><img src="http://www.history.jp/images/Hotchkiss-s.jpg"></a>
(Click for a larger picture)