Photos of Soldiers with M88 rifles or M88 rifles in use during WWI

If anyone has any additional images of M88 rifles in use that they are willing to share for me to add to this webpage, please send it to me in .jpg format to forum(@)texastradingpost.com . Copyrights may apply to the original owners. Click on pictures for larger images. Thank you Greg Cooke as I could not have put this page together without your help. 

A pre WWI soldier with his Commission 88 rifle and S71/84 bayonet, sling in parade position with sling places over cleaning rod. Unit view with Commission 88 rifles.
Commission 88 with Sheepskin coat. 1906 uniform with Commission 88 rifle and 1871 bayonet. (Sharp Troop)
Guarding Russian prisoners in Poland, 1914. Commission 88 carried by a very young soldier wearing a Greatcoat.
Thanks Greg Urban "Kraigmeister" for this unusual picture of U.S. Marines with M88s. 

Postcard showing United States Marines on a shipboard firing detail of some sort with German M88 Commission Rifles. ?????

 An older soldier holding an 88/05 with a plate over the bottom of magazine. These were charger loaded with stripper clips.

Joram van Miert in Holland pointed me to this great picture. It is from Stephen Bull, "Twentieth-century Arms & Armour". Notice the use of the wire sling keeper on the cleaning rod. 

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Note the Kar88s! 
   

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