Original U.S. Identified WWI 5th Division Uniform Grouping - Painted Helmet - Trench Watch - Pay Book Cannons It is marked STEYR 1896

It is marked STEYR 1896 on the left side of the receiver indicating it was manufactured in 1896 by Österreichische Waffenfabriksgesellschaft

Berlin und Gnesso

The side plate on the 2nd Issue was much larger and irregularly shaped

sometimes barely missing the church steeples

Original U.S. Identified WWI 5th Division Uniform Grouping - Painted Helmet - Trench Watch - Pay Book Cannons It is marked STEYR 1896Original Item. One of a Kind. The 19th Field Artillery Regiment of the 5th Division arrived in France in May 1918, seeing heavy combat in the St. Die Sector, the Villers en Haye Sector, the St. Mihiel Offensive, the Limey Sector, and Puvenelle Sector. This is a stellar named grouping to a Corporal in the Headquarters Company of that regiment, including his uniform, helmet, and trench watch with shrapnel guard. Henry W. Smith was born in 1896, in