Guards Cuirassiers (Prussia)

The Guards Cuirassiers (German: Garde-Kürassier-Regiment) were a heavy cavalry regiment of the Royal Prussian Army. Formed in 1815 as an Uhlans regiment, it was reorganized as a cuirassiers unit in 1821. The regiment was part of the Guards Cavalry Division and fought in the Second Schleswig War, the Austro-Prussian War, the Franco-Prussian War and World War I. The regiment was disbanded in September 1919.

Ferdinand Rogalla von Bieberstein in the parade uniform of the Guards Cuirassiers

See also

List of Imperial German cavalry regiments

References

Schulz, Hugo (1992). Die preussischen Kavallerie-Regimenter 1913/1914 nach dem Gesetz vom 3. Juli 1913. Augsburg: Weltbild. pp. 12–13. ISBN 3893503439.

External links

http://www.kuerassierregimenter.de/ Archived 2021-05-01 at the Wayback Machine

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