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A very neat photo!  I have never seen a Field Rabbi photo before.  

Field Rabbi Dr. Aaron Tänzer near the front in 1917, the Russian Front that is, Iron Cross 2nd Class we see. Tänzer educated  at the Pressburg Yeshiva then on to  University of Berlin,  was actually an Austrian believe or not, he just happened to be residing in Germany as a appointed Rabbi in Göppingen  when the war started, this in Württemberg, apparently applies to go into the German Army rather than returning home to Austria to join the Habsburg Army, I guess requesting permission to do so, maybe even petitioning the King of Württemberg himself. After the was he doesn't go back to Austria but back to Germany.   He has his own WIKI.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Tänzer

I made pdfs of the old Diana's Buttons page from angelfire that I got on the wayback machine. I'll post them here.    Diana's Buttons - Reference - British Navy Buttons page 1.pdfDiana's Buttons - Reference - British Navy Buttons page 2.pdfDiana's Buttons - British Button Backmarks.pdfDiana's Buttons Article - Crowns and Cyphers on British Uniform Buttons.pdf

Based on the notebook I am guessing he is Der Spiess.

Wow.  Rich A. in Pa.

Thank you for your reply:)) I had considered that, but in German there is a term "Extraseitengewehr" which means, that the bayonet is an extra to the one used and to be worn for parades. Usually, they don't have the push button for mounting it, but sometimes they do. So I was never sure, which one it is... Could you gibe me some insight as to why it is an NCO's?

Got mysellf a new QMD!      

Great pics!  I love to see photos of awards, equipment, or anything else in a war time photo that wasn't used or worn in the conventional way. Between my Dad's accounts of his actions in the ETO and those of a couple of his squad mates I was fortunate to have located and spoke with a few years back, they weren't very concerned with the official way of doing things. I have a photo of my Dad's squad on their halftrack drinking bottles of wine they found somewhere. His Dad was in my Dad's Battalion, but in a different company. He was so taken back by the photo because drinking was forbidden, not to mention taking photos during hostilities. He pictured our Dads as white knights that didn't cuss, drink, fraternize, kill certain prisoners, etc.  Well.. ;D

A captured North Korean worn Russian Helmet and Sub Machinegun are used in Japan for familiarization courses for the Korea bound 3rd Battalion Royal Australian Regiment September 1950.

In case you don't know your KS98 bayonet is the short model made for NCOs.  

Here's one just awarded to a Luftwaffe man, one of the methods, we guess one of the methods with their Fliegerbluse and its concealed button-front, looks like the entire ribbon is just shoved into the opening for the button, with the front there still buttoned.