Hi all.

I'm a big fan of the history of the 20th century, with The Great War being my personal favourite topic to learn about. Something I like to do for fun in my spare time is sketch little cartoons of soldiers from the War, but something I'm struggling to find much detailed information on is the convention of German Uniform Ranks and Infantry + Officer Insignia throughout the war.

From what I understand there were three main uniforms used in the war (The 1910 uniform, the transitional uniform, and the 1915 uniform, I could be wrong, and if so please feel free to correct me!) but something I've seen is that certain officer ranks wore collar tabs similar to the Heer ones of WWII and I'm confused on the issuing and designs of these and to what ranks they were given.

I've also seen another officer collar design, but I'm not sure exactly what it's called, where it's a single stripe that runs down the inside edge of the collar, and around the bottom.

I'm also a bit hazy on the standard infantry ranks, as well, and struggling to find much information on designs or placements for insignias. From what I can tell, the rank of a soldier was displayed by the design of his shoulder boards, which I believe were to be worn on both shoulders, but I'm not entirely sure.

If anyone has any information or links to other sites documenting information that could help me understand the various infantry and officer ranks and their respective insignias and collar designs a bit better it would be much appreciated, and thank you in advance!

I should probably also specify I'm not talking about dress attire or insignia, I'm more focused on the field uniforms, and things like that. Feel free to correct any mistakes I made here, and thank you again!