GERMANY, BAVARIA: REGIMENTAL HONOUR CROSS WITH 1ST ROYAL BAVARIAN HEAVY CAVALRY (PRINCE CHARLES OF BAVARIA'S) REGIMENT CLASP, CIRCA 1900
Germany, Bavaria. Regimental Honour Cross with 1st Royal Bavarian Heavy Cavalry (Prince Charles of Bavaria's) Regiment clasp, circa 1900, parade-mounted;
BAYERN. Regiments Ehrenkreuz mit Gefechtsspange des Königlich Bayerisches Schwere-Reiter-Regiment, „Prinz Karl von Bayern“ Nr. 1, um 1900;
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The Regiment was established on 16 July 1814 as a Garde
du Corps to the King of Bavaria and given the title ‘Prince Charles of
Bavaria’s’ on 26 April1848. It fought in
the Napoleonic Wars, with Austria against Prussia in 1866 and against France in
1870-71.
In World War I, the Regiment fought in Lorraine and made
a cavalry charge at Gondrexon. It then
moved to Neuf-Berquin, Lys, Ypres and into reserve at Metz. In April 1915 it moved to the Eastern Front
and fought in Lithuania and Courland and later in Galicia and Romania. In March 1918, it moved on Kiev, Odessa and
the Crimea. At the end of the war it was
in eastern Ukraine from where it returned to Bavaria in January 1919, there to
be demobilised and disbanded.
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