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Name the Field Marshal........

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  • 28-06-2013 11:16am
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    Jawgap
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    Bit of Friday trivia while finishing off a peice on this chap.....here he is in his early days in the Freikorps......




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    boomchicawawa
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    Top of my head...He looks like Von Rundstedt but I wouldn't like to stake my house on it :D.

    I was looking at this again and can I have a second guess, cos it could be Keitel, they both looked similar, again I'm not putting my house on it !


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    franklyon
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    Harold Alexander, taken after World War 1, when he was fighting for the Baltic German Landeswehr in the Latvian War of Independence
    Also he was never in the Freikorps.


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    Jawgap
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    Alexander it is.

    The photo credit suggests it was taken following his capture by the Bolsheviks, but I can't find any other reference to such an incident.

    I thought it might be a photo taken by a Russian, but at the peace talks.

    @franklyon - sorry, you're right - he wasn't in the Freikorps, but it seems a lot of his men, when he took over, were Freikorps volunteers from Germany.

    The uniform has the Landswehr rosette on the cap.

    A better photo.....

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