Uniforms and insignia for Cossack and ROA/POA

[Datrus]

Thank you. Please post your items here as they are not seen every day

Cheers

[TrondK]

I happen to have one untouched jacket with model 42 DON shield frei. But mine has not the "stripe" on top of the shield. Still a Gem.

((How in the world can someone "restore" such a tunic to dutch?!?!!?. It is like swearing in church if you ask me.))

[frei]

That's a nice ex dutch jacket from the 5th Don Cossack Regiment. The armshield is exactly the same model as on the jacket which I sold.
Nice shoulderboards !!
Looks like hungarian officer shoulderboards, same style. Did not see such before on a eastern volunteer jacket.
I saw a original picture of a company sergeant major who had also 2 stripes on the sleeve. These stripes on the sleeve seems to be used till may 1943 when the eastern volunteers got their definitive insignia.

[frei]

Thank you. Please post your items here as they are not seen every day

Cheers

OK Lars, if everybody is ok with it I will post a part of my volunteer collection overhere.

[Datrus]

I do not think anyone will get angry about that

Cheers

[TrondK]

I found a photo of a Bergkaukasien officer with similar shoulderboards. Sadly I cant recall the rank at the moment.

[frei]

Yes of course, a very well known picture. How could I forget ?
Here the pictures of which I spoke before ;
- a jacket with two bands on the sleeve (a little differant from yours but ''it can be'' !)
The man is probaly a Kalmuck.

[TrondK]

Yes there we have these stripes again. I have a youtube video somewhere, and in that video we can also see a senior officer with these stripes.

Very interesting photos, thanks for sharing.
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Edit: I wonder if these stripes on your photo are NCO stripes frei.

Here is the only photo i have of "stripe" on sleeve. It is one stripe, but it is most likely the same idea as the ones my jacket has.

[frei]

Did not see this photo before, looks likes volunteers from the Freies Indien Legion.
I found some other pictures from eastern volunteers with a double band on the sleeve. Again the captive speakes about a Stabsfeldwebel (staff sergeant major). Will scan the pictures and post them tomorrow.

[frei]

Here the pictures of the stabsfeldwebel.
2nd and 3rd pictures are from the same man.







edit : 2nd man from right on the first picture has also a cossack trouser. It is a member of the 2nd siberian cossack regiment (winter 1943/1944) received a decoration from Von Pannwitz. Probaly an Infanterie Sturmabzeichen.