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Original Item: Only Only Available. This is a wonderful difficult to find Imperial German Garde-Kürassier-Regt. (Berlin) Garde-Korps visor hat (schirmmütze) constructed of white/cream wool with blue wood hat band and blue piping along with metal cockade and interior lining. It is nicely maker marked in silver on the interior crown to a uniform maker in Berlin; D. David. Size is approximately US 6 3/4 (54cm). Overall condition is very good. A rare World War One era visor cap.
Garde-Kürassier-Regiment during the Great War:
After the mobilization, the regiment marched out on August 4, 1914 through Luxembourg and Belgium to northern France. After taking part in the Battle of the Marne, he retreated and, until December 1914, trench warfare on the Aisne.
From December 1914 to July 1915 he was deployed in border guards on the Belgian-Dutch border. From August 1915 he was transferred to the Eastern Front and took part in the offensive fighting in Russian Poland and Galicia. From October 1915 to February 1918 positional battles at Pinsk and Kovel. Then relocation to Silesia, where the regiment finally lost its cavalry status and was converted to the Cavalry Rifle Regiment in the Association of the Guard Cavalry Rifle Division. After completion of the infantry training, the former cuirassiers were used in defensive battles on the western front until the end of the war. The march back home began as early as November 10, 1918.
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