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Many soldiers were aged members of the Landsturm or had been wounded in battle.
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Two French prisoners constructed the facility while members of the Landsturm and POWs helped with wood-carving, knitting, masonry work, and carpentry.
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An under-officer, with the black-and-gold button of the Landsturm, hoicked us out of the train, and we were all shepherded into a big bare waiting-room where a large stove burned.
Greenmantle 2005
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He was left behind with the lieutenant and I was sent off to the station with my bag in the company of a Landsturm sergeant.
Greenmantle 2005
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At the station platform, where the ornament of the Landsturm saved me all the trouble about tickets, I could not see my companion.
Greenmantle 2005
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Landsturm, to this fortress, where they fought like devils until many were killed, and the others, at their wits 'end, managed to push on to
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The custom of throwing chicken-bones over the right shoulder is practised only in the mess of the 13th Bavarian Landsturm Regiment.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 19, 1917 Various
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Landsturm and the war strength of the whole armed forces are not published.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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Fresh Landsturm troops who were under fire for the first time especially distinguished themselves.
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 Various
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Landwehr, and finally as member of the Landsturm, to spring to arms at the call of his supreme war lord, the German Emperor.
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