On this picture (from a death remembrance card) you can see the GJ edelweiss
but the officer (here ranked a 1st Lt) is listed as "Rittmeister und Kolonnenführer".
Rittmeister would mean Captain in the Cavalry (+ convoy commander)
Is he a Cavalry officer or a Mountain troop officer?
The rank title would indicate Cavalry (that was his final rank), but the edelweiss and (possibly) bergmutze would indicate GJ officer....
I know that in the Osttruppen Cossack Cavalry regiments some sub units were allowed to wear edelweiss insignia while attached to a GJ parent unit on the
Crimea-Krim-Caucasus front...
but what is the explanation here?
but the officer (here ranked a 1st Lt) is listed as "Rittmeister und Kolonnenführer".
Rittmeister would mean Captain in the Cavalry (+ convoy commander)
Is he a Cavalry officer or a Mountain troop officer?
The rank title would indicate Cavalry (that was his final rank), but the edelweiss and (possibly) bergmutze would indicate GJ officer....
I know that in the Osttruppen Cossack Cavalry regiments some sub units were allowed to wear edelweiss insignia while attached to a GJ parent unit on the
Crimea-Krim-Caucasus front...
but what is the explanation here?
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