Questions Thread

[Zoologic]

Ah I forgot that straight pull action discussion you pulled with others 

Sorry, I forgot about that.

[Tankbuster]

Gentlemen, I am trying to trace two of my ancestors, one of them my Great Grandfather served in WW1. He was deployed in France, and was somewhere high up in the logistics department. any help would be appreciated.

[Korsakov829]

Has been in France, dealt with logistics, was a man, was alive sometime after 1914, at one point had children... that narrows it down really to what could be less than 100000 people. All we need now is to know his nationality, name, date enlisted, date of birth, date of death, years served, occupation before the war, and so on.

[Tankbuster]

He was a subject of the British Crown, Indian, and his name was Satish Chandra Bandhopadhyay. He retired in 1926, and was born in 1871 or 1872 (yes my granny is a bit forgetful), and he was a school teacher before the war.

[VonMudra]

Have you tried contacting British or Indian vet affairs departments?  At least in US, you can go through vet affairs department, they have a service for finding service records of relatives.  You sounds like you have the info needed.

[Turkish007]

1) Does anyone know what gas mask the Ottoman Army was equipped with? Or any photos?

2) What kinds of armored units were recorded which were deployed in Anatolia by the occupying allies after WW1 had ended? I know about the French FT17's, but were there any other armoured units deployed by the French, Commonwealth, Greek or Italian, Armenians?

[VonMudra]

1) Does anyone know what gas mask the Ottoman Army was equipped with? Or any photos?

2) What kinds of armored units were recorded which were deployed in Anatolia by the occupying allies after WW1 had ended? I know about the French FT17's, but were there any other armoured units deployed by the French, Commonwealth, Greek or Italian, Armenians?

The WW1 Ottomans received German Gas Mask training in Berlin, and were issued with these, as part of the Ottoman Turkish military commitment to Eastern European front, which ended in September 1917, with the withdrawal of Russia from the war. Turkish soldiers were wearing gas masks during the Battle of Galitsia/Galicia, 1917. The actual gas mask pattern being used look to be the Model 1915 Gummimaske [gas mask] [1].

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[1] Birinci Dunya Savasi'nda Turk Askeri Kiyafetleri [Turkish Military Uniforms during WW1]: 70.

The British def had tanks in theater:

http://alh-research.tripod.com/Light_Horse/index.blog?topic_id=1113723

Donno if they made it into Anatolia though.  Greeks prob had none, and Italians never took part in the occupation.  Armenians for sure had none.

[THeTA0123]

He was a subject of the British Crown, Indian, and his name was Satish Chandra Bandhopadhyay. He retired in 1926, and was born in 1871 or 1872 (yes my granny is a bit forgetful), and he was a school teacher before the war.

Did he died in WW1?

[MaJ.P.Bouras]

Greeks had no tanks in the Asia Minor Liberation campaign.

[Oberst]

He was a subject of the British Crown, Indian, and his name was Satish Chandra Bandhopadhyay. He retired in 1926, and was born in 1871 or 1872 (yes my granny is a bit forgetful), and he was a school teacher before the war.

Did he died in WW1?

Would be very uncommon to die before retiring?

[Tankbuster]

He was a subject of the British Crown, Indian, and his name was Satish Chandra Bandhopadhyay. He retired in 1926, and was born in 1871 or 1872 (yes my granny is a bit forgetful), and he was a school teacher before the war.

Did he died in WW1?

No, he did not. Although one of his sons died in India during the war due to cholera, but he wasn't allowed to return home.

[Ciupita]

He was a subject of the British Crown, Indian, and his name was Satish Chandra Bandhopadhyay. He retired in 1926, and was born in 1871 or 1872 (yes my granny is a bit forgetful), and he was a school teacher before the war.

Did he die in WW1?

If he retired in 1926, of course not. And I fixed your grammar.

[CHRISTIEFRONTDRIVE]

I don't know a lot about commandos and such but I've been reading a lot about the Brandenburgers today. Anyone know a bit about them? What are some equivalent "special forces" from other nations during WW2?

[Korsakov829]

The Brandenburgers were a bit unique, the only unit of that time that I can think of are Australia's M Special Unit. Most other special forces of the time had more of a combat role.

[Redbadd]

I know that in may 1940 they were used to secure bridges in the Netherlands and Belgium in the houres before the official German attack, by overpowering the guards.
They would pose as Dutch soldiers or police, sometimes bringing in "prisoners", they had recruited Dutch personel aswell as Germans living in the Netherlands.
They did manage to secure a couple of bridges other times their incomplete uniforms would give them away.
A border guard recounted that an enemy was wearing a helmet that appeared to be made out of paper machee, because when he hit him on the helmet with his sword it went al the way through.

Another unit did not go into action because 3 out of 4 members were still too drunk.