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This Blog was born from a wet day in Germany, looking at one of the many war memorials in that country and further investigation which led me to notice a lack of reference material with regards to the German Army in World War One.

My work on this project has been made easier by the World Wide Web, but with the information tools at my disposal it has been a constant battle to ensure that the correct information has been included.

This Blog is intended for reference, and will hopefully enable those with an interest in the German Army of World War One to look up with confidence the various units and organisations which contributed to the German war machine.

Saturday 1 February 2014

2nd Guards Infantry Division




This peacetime Army unit was formed in September 1818

Home Station:  Berlin

Composition in August 1914

3rd  Guards Infantry Brigade

1st Guards Grenadier Regiment

Formed on 14th October 1814, garrisoned in Berlin.

3rd Guards Grenadier Regiment

Formed on 5th May 1860, garrisoned in Charlottenburg.

Guards Shooting Battalion
1st Guards Grenadiers
3rd Guards Grenadiers
Guards Shooting Bn
4th  Guards Infantry Brigade

2nd Guards Grenadier Regiment

Formed on 14th October 1814, garrisoned in Berlin.

4th Guards Grenadier Regiment

Formed on 5th May 1860, garrisoned in Berlin.

The 4th Guards Infantry Brigade was transferred to the 220th Infantry Division on the 15th January 1917.

4th Guards Grenadiers
2nd Guards Ulan Cavalry Regiment

2nd Guards Field Artillery Brigade

2nd and 3rd Company Guards Pioneer Battalion

2nd Section Guards Ambulance Company




The 2nd Guards Division was formed from the Guards Corps and comprised of the 3rd and 4th Guards Brigades.

In 1914 it fought on the Western Front, at most notably at Artois and Ypres, it then went into reserve before entraining for the Eastern Front where it took part in the Gorlice-Tarnow Battle.

By September 1915 it was back on the Western Front where it was engaged in the Flanders area and on the Somme.

In 1917 it fought at Verdun on the Western Front and Riga on the Eastern Front.  It ended the war in the West

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