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Croix de Guerre , super pictures !...the "Wurttemburg" soldat is in fact IMO Bavarian "Gebirgstruppen"...a member of the Bavarian "Scneesschuh-Bataillons No 1" raised in 1914, note the 'Edelweiss' insignia on left side of feldmutze, he wears the special Bavarian field gray 'Skilitewka' tunic, which had a green piped collar, having two green piped pockets in the rear of the skirt, each fastened with two buttons. It had two breast pockets and two hip pockets. On the collar were grey patches with a green letter 'S'. Wurttemburg also had Ski Battalions and wore a similiar tunic, but with "green woolen rolls" (shulterwuster) at the tops of there sleeves at the shoulder seams, like Austrian tunics, clearly our man doesnt have this feature on his tunic !
Hope this has helped....Prost! Steve.
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