How to wear your goggles on a fur hat, c. 1916

mconrad Sat 25 Dec 2010, 1:29 am

This fellow has his driving goggles neatly pinned behind the cockade of his winter hat. Shoulder straps have the crossed pick and shovel of a sapper, and a Cyrillic "Sb". I'm just guessing, but that could mean "Sapernyi batalion" or "Sibirskii" ("Siberian"). The regular sapper battalions were supposed to have the crossed instruments over just a number (1 through 21).
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(From an auction site.)