Bulgarian Artillery in WW1

[Nick]

Happy New Year, Marco!

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Added Schneider mechanical fuze-setter

Added some pictures to Krupp 105mm long gun M. 1880 and 3 pdr [76.2mm] mountain gun M. 1867

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Revised all the obsolete Russian guns : 6 inch, 24 pdr long and short, 9 pdr steel and bronze, 4 pdr, 3 pdr

Corrected The strength of the Bulgarian artillery in November 1885

Added Ammunition available on 11 September 1885

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Revised the biographies of the Russian Head of the Bulgarian Artillery : Lesovoy, Reshetin and Arseniev

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Added the artillery of Bulgarian Territorial Army to The birth of Bulgarian Artillery

Added Planned strength of the Bulgarian artillery – September 1878

Revised The composition of the Bulgarian Artillery in 1885

Thanks to Nick for the aid in translation and terminology and to Dibo for the great amount of documents given

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Added After Berlin : the Russian years, Russian officers serving in Bulgarian artillery 1879 - 1885, Graduated of the 1st class of the Military School enlisted in artillery.

Added Peace establishment of the Bulgarian artillery in 1880 and in 1884.

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Entirely revised the whole section Artillery Regiments, adding the name of most of the regimental commanders
Unfortunately there is still a lot of gaps, since my documentation is missing for 1892-1903. Any aid is welcomed!

[Nick]

Thanks, Marco! Just let me know what kind of aid, I will do my best to help you.

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The problem now is to discover the names of the commander of the artillery regiments: if anybody knows even a single name I will be very pleased to add it to my list.
Thanks!

[dibo]

4th arty regiment:
1903 - Colonel Ivanov

2nd arty regiment:
1906 - Colonel Hristo Kushev

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4th arty regiment:
1903 - Colonel Ivanov

2nd arty regiment:
1906 - Colonel Hristo Kushev

Thanks! Added.

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Added some pictures of a Turkish 75mm field gun M. 1910 from Red Cliffs, Australia. Thanks to Charlie Clelland for the pictures of this rare gun.

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Added Peace establishment of the Bulgarian artillery in 1889

Added Peace establishment of the fortress battalions in 1892, 1896 and 1912

Thanks to Nick for his aid!

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Added The development of the fortress artillery, On the eve of the Balkan Wars and On the eve of the World War

Revised The development of the Bulgarian artillery : 1886-1911

Added some little corrections and additions to the whole section History

With these additions the section History is basically finished, even if many other detail can be added. This goal seemed impossible only six months ago. I would like to express my deep gratitude to Dibo for having provided the great part of the Angelov's articles published in Артилерийски Преглед. I think that his research are insuperable unless you can study directly the Bulgarian Army archives.

Many thanks also to von Danitz for the picture he sent me: it will be published as soon as possible!

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added Graduated at the Elisavetgrad Cavalry Cadet School in 1881, Establishment of the Bulgarian Territorial Army artillery in 1878 and Establishment of the artillery siege battery in 1878

some little additions to The birth of the coast artillery (1878 – 1912) and to The coast artillery during the World War I (1915 – August 1916)