Germany, Imperial. A Large Framed Wartime Portrait of a Decorated Bavarian Solder in Full Kit visually-hidden Their sacrifice and courage is

Their sacrifice and courage is commemorated to this day in regular events at the war cemetery at Chastre near Gembloux

He survived the war and joined the Bundeswehr in 1956

sharpened lower edge

the reverse with an unused postcard setup

Germany, Imperial. A Large Framed Wartime Portrait of a Decorated Bavarian Solder in Full Kit visually-hidden Their sacrifice and courage is(Portrt). A superb studio portrait depicting a Bavarian soldier wearing full field kit, clad in an Officer grade Pickelhaube with a regional plate clearly visible, wearing a 1914 Iron Cross II Class, and wielding a rifle with an elongated combat bayonet fixed in position, standing against a forested studio backdrop, affixed to a card stock backer topped by a printed etching of Kaiser Wilhelm II, situated above a 1914 Iron Cross surrounded by an oak