We do not know if it is a late war Ersatz replacement
The banner is marked as being for the area of “ELTEN” and has the date of establishment as 1887
Its lay-down collar has two smaller wooden buttons to its left underside through which a horizontal tab is attached which
the regiment was assigned to the First Brigade
responsible for the protection of the Emperor himself
Original WWI French Battlefield Excavated Relic Collection - Helmet, Canteen, Barbed Wire, Inert F-1 Grenade Shells & More! German Flags We do not know ifOriginal Ground Dug Items: Only One Lot of Available. This is fantastic! During WWI much of North East France and the surrounding areas became part of "No man's land", where constant trench warfare reduced the environment to a blasted out, desolate area. Repeated charges and changes in the front left huge amounts of material behind, often buried by later trench works, artillery fire, and the like, which means that for many years to come, any type of