kragrifle

Hmmm... just made a quick search via google and found this article about Danish infantery uniforms. Maybe it helps to identify the timeframe better and gives supportive info.

This is a very neat image. Glad to see the public domain getting some press.

from the Azchael link, I led to believe that this photo is made after 1903 (based on the collar of the soldier in the left) ...

Soldier 1: "I see your Schwartz is as big as mine..." Soldier 2: "Now let's see how well you handle it..."

Coooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool!

This mass took place on May 24, 1908

See page 6 of The Stark County Democrat (Canton, Ohio), May 26, 1908, (WEEKLY EDITION)
- www.loc.gov/resource/sn84028490/1908-05-26/ed-1/?sp=6&amp...

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Mass Held For Dead of Army and Navy Largely Attended
New York, May 24.-There was a large attendance at the military field mass in the Brooklyn navy yard today.
As early as 9 o'clock the people began to gather at the navy yard gates although the mass was not to begin until 10:30. Every building facing the parade ground where the mass was celebrated was adorned with American flags and a profusion of the fags hung over the balconies of the marine barracks, before the center of which the elaborate altar wast erected.
Before the mass there was music, both religious and secular, ranging from "Onward Christian Soldiers" to "Auld Lang Syne," "Annie Lauri," and "Marching Through Georgia."
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I have this book. It's called "The Great War."

That's all I got here: JB MDL Dix (Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst Dix), better known as Fort Dix, is a United States Army base located approximately 16.1 miles (25.9 km) south-southeast of Trenton, New Jersey. Dix is under the jurisdiction of the United States Army Reserve Command (USARC). It became part of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (JB MDL) on 1 October 2009. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JB_MDL_Dix I sometimes wonder if it's possible to control the upload order on Flickr Commons? There's been cases in the past when amazing sets have gone largely unnoticed because the last picture uploaded (the one that appears in most followers' contacts) is not as visually striking, at least in thumbnail, as some others.

Looking at the largest resolution version of this image, it appears the rifles being turned in are obsolete Krag-Jorgensen rifles. By the beginning of World War I, the Krag had already been replaced in most front-line American units by the legendary Model 1903 Springfield rifle (M1903). While the M1903 was selected to replaced the Krag, and had done so for the most part by the beginning of the war, it would be the lesser-known M1917 Enfield rifle that would equip 75% of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) in Europe by the end of the war. A few of the early arriving American units in Europe were equipped with the Krag, but it saw an extremely limited amount of combat. It is more likely the rifles photographed being turned in at Camp Dix (later Fort Dix) actually equipped a stateside-based unit and/or were used for training purposes during the First World War.

Nice

Neat photos... wonderful post!!!