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    Question: Bav. 1st Landsturm Inf. Reg.


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    Hi Thomas,

    that's all I have!

    Best regards,

    Jens

    bay. Landsturm-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 1

    Das Regiment wurde am 13.6.1915 vom Stellv. Gen. Kdo. III. b. A.K. aufgestellt

    Unterstellung Armee-Abteilung Gronau , Kommandeur: Oberst z. D. Dengler

    I. Bataillon: 3. bay. Ldst.-Inf.-Btl. München (I. B. 19)

    II. Bataillon: bay. Ldst.-Inf.-Btl. Speyer (II. B. 17)

    III. Bataillon: 3. bay. Ldst.-Inf.-Btl. Nürnberg (III. B. 22)

    Ersatz-Truppen-Teil: bay. Ldst.-Inf.-Ers.-Btl. Oberfranken (III. B. 15) (Hof), später bay. Ldst.-Inf.-Ers.-Btl. Bayreuth (III. B. 17) (Hof)

    Demob.-Trp.-Teil: 7. bay. I.R. (für Stab)

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    The book itself is almost a day by day "diary" of events.

    Mobilized: August 1914.

    6th army Northern France Sept. 24. 1914- Jan. 31, 1916. Mostly around Cambrai.

    Interestingly, on March 31, 1916 the Bavarians ordered home all 1871 veterans for 'Munich' service. 3 NCOs and 51 men who had served in 1870/71 went back to Munich!

    By Sept. 1916 the battalion was near Thiacourt and from Sept. 16-30th was in St. Mihiel

    Oct. 1916- May 1917 on the Maas ridge between Spada and St. Mihiel: Oct/November 1916 at le Mont (between Apremont and Loumont). 14th landwehr Brigade.

    The battalions companies seem to have been used as augmentation reserves for varied units- 2 Bav. Id etc..

    May, 1917-April 17, 1918-Army Group Herzog Albrecht of wurttemberg: 6th Cav. Division.

    "Stationary battles in the Vogesen).

    June/July 1918: Stationary battles in Flanders and Artois. Reserve Corps and 9th and then 4th Army Corps.

    July 29th-August 5th 1918- Marching by foot from the 6th to 2nd Ar,y, thence to the 17th Army in August, 1918. Mostly around Douai

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