Images Dated 3rd March 2013

Senior NCO, most probably a CSM or SNCO Acting Officer

A portrait of a senior NCO, most probably a CSM (Feldwebel) or SNCO Acting Officer (not commissioned), known as an Offizierstellvertreter, in the walking out dress of Infantry Leib Regiment Groߨerzogin Nr 117 based in Mainz (part of the, 25th Groߨerzoglich Hessische Division with its HQ in Darmstadt). The peaked cap with red band, the split coloured high collar with white/silver trim and red with the jacket piping in red also is typical attire for an Infantry SNCO/junior (non-commissioned) officer at that time. As a Leib Regiment, it owed personal loyalty to the Hessian Duchy family. Not surprisingly, therefore, the A on the epaulette signifies Groߨrezogin Alice von Hesse who was the Regiment's equivalent to the titular Royal / Ducal Colonel-in-Chief of the Regiment. . Anna Hillermann, (German) B.1875

© David Cohen Fine Art/Mary Evans Picture Library

The International Railway Bridge

The International Railway Bridge carries a railway line across the Niagara River between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York. I was almost arrested by the Ontario police for getting too close to this international bridge; thank God I got only warning

© Roland Shainidze

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Lenticular Clouds over the highest mountain in Ice

At 2, 109.6 metres Hvannadalshn?kur is a peak in the North West rim of the ?r?faj?kull volcano, part of the Vatnaj?kull National Park

© 2013 David N Moorhouse

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