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    The Lehr Infanterie Regiment and its documents


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    Hello!

    That´s interesting. The top is dated dec.8, 1918 (as I see), one month later than in the middle. The unit is strange too. Maschinengewehr-Kompanie ??? Inf.Rgt.

    The Heeresgruppe Deutscher Kronprinz was in that period the 7th, 1st and 3rd army (Commander Kronprinz Wilhelm)

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    The unit is strange too. Maschinengewehr-Kompanie ??? Inf.Rgt.

    The Heeresgruppe Deutscher Kronprinz was in that period the 7th, 1st and 3rd army (Commander Kronprinz Wilhelm)

    2. M.G.K. Lehr Inf. Regt.

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    :whistle: ...

    Well, the Lehr-Inf.Rgt fought in that period (from september - november):

    Reims

    Laon

    Champagne

    Argonnen and Maas

    Ailette and Aire

    Aisne and Maas

    Antwerpen - Maasstellung

    I have the regimental history of that regiment. Schütze Stössel is not mentioned in the casualty list. So fortunatley he survived.

    Edited by The Prussian
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    Not surely, Chris. The LIR fought heavy fight against the americans in that time. The "History of the 251 divisions" recorded:
    "... after two days in reserve it entered the line on the 12th (oct.), now opposing the first American Army. In this sector it fought vigorously, making perhaps the stiffest resistance encountered in the offinsive.

    The division went out on oct, 17 and rested until the 26th.

    Reengaged northeast of Attigny on the 26th, the division co ntiniued in line until the armistice. The last identification was southeast of Mezières on nov., 7. 500 prisoners were lost by the division during their last period in line."

    So I assume, he earned the cross for the fights between 12th and 17th oct.

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    STOP MATES! I GOT IT!!!!!!!

    I just read a little bit in the regimental history! And what did the old Prussian find???? I try to translate:

    On 8th november 8am the regiment had to line up. It shal detach a bataillon with three companies and one MGK to defend the HQ of the Crownprice. Only special soldies should do that. Each company had a strength 10 NCOs and 45 "Guard-fusiliers"

    One soldier wrote: "In the HQ we got new uniforms and relieved the staff-guard. At the 10th Admiral v. Hintze came, we presentated and asked for the military-passes. The Admiral said:"Wow! These ones really are STILL soldiers!"..."

    Well, and, who led that bataillon? Hauptmann v. Kröcher (E.K.I. 1st of march 1915)

    The MG-Kp. was led by Lt.d.R. Anker and Lt.d.R. Nauendorf

    Am I good or am I good??? :whistle:

    I attached a photo of the LIR from 1916

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    Great job, Andy.

    I think the von Kröcher in question is Jürgen from the Garde Füsilier Regiment. In May 1918 he was a battalion commander in the GFR. He had a relative, Adolf, in 3. GFAR, but I do not think he would have been placed in charge of a security detail.

    Andy

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    I go red with shame...

    There is one thing that makes me puzzle...

    Why is the unit the LIR, when all soldiers of that bataillon were from the Guard-fusiliers?

    Well, the battle-ordre of the 3rd guard-inf.div. was in july 1918:

    Gren.Rgt.9

    Garde-Füs.Rgt.

    Lehr-Inf.Rgt.

    But why was the LIR mentioned?

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    Why is the unit the LIR, when all soldiers of that bataillon were from the Guard-fusiliers?

    Do I get your question right: Why is it not the LFR then?

    The designation Füsilier was only a traditional honour since 1808.

    Since the LIR had no traditional roots to draw a Füsilier designation from, it was raised as infantry.

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    Hi Auseklis!

    There were both regiments in the division. The Lehr-Inf.Rgt. and the Garde-Füsilier-Rgt.

    The bataillon was built from 45 men Garde-Füsiliere, so the owner of the document (probably) was a Garde-Füsilier. Why was there written "Lehr-Inf.Rgt.", instead of Garde-Füs.Rgt?

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    Great job, Andy.

    I think the von Kröcher in question is Jürgen from the Garde Füsilier Regiment. In May 1918 he was a battalion commander in the GFR. He had a relative, Adolf, in 3. GFAR, but I do not think he would have been placed in charge of a security detail.

    Andy

    Yes, it was he.

    Jürgen v. Kröcher was commanded to Heeresgruppe B, formerly Heeresgruppe Deutscher Kronprinz, on 9 November 1918 and returned to the GFR on 12 December.

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    What was the composition of the LIR?

    I have a few LIR regiment EK documents, one to a guy who joined the regiment in 1915, his 1917 EK doc has him as "Garde Füsilier".

    The guy above is Schütze (MG man), the 3rd doc is an Uffz....

    So the bog standard Infantryman is "Garde Füsilier".....

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    Ah, ok. I´ve seen him in the Ehrenrangliste. He was Major a.D. after the war. Now I know, because they wrote Lehr-Inf.Rgt. It was set-up by soldiers from different units. If v. Kröcher did serve in the LIR, his base-unit was still the Garde-Fusiliers.

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    Chris.

    When they built the bataillon for the crown-prince, the rest of the regiment formed another bataillon. Called "Bataillon Follenius" (b ecause of the commander Hauptmann Frhr. v. Follenius)

    The bataillon v. Kröcher had 3 companies (1., 2., 3.) and one MG-company

    The bataillon v. Follenius had two companies (1., 6.), one MG-company and one Minenwerferzug

    The bataillon v. Kröcher came by cars and lorries to Vielsalm. The crown-prince lived in Château Salm

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