Pickelhaube - Wurtemburg Infantry

[lugercarbine]

Chuck
Nice helmet. Cant wait to see it.

Russ

[MauserKar98k]

Nice pickelhaube ; I definitely wouldn't mind it my collection.

IR122 (technically a Fusilier regiment) was originally in the German 26th Division where it took part in the Race to the Sea, but by May 1915 it had been transferred to the 105th Infantry Division. This regiment fought in almost every theater of the war; the Western Front, Eastern Front, Serbia, Latvia, and the Macedonian Front (Greece.) In 1916 the unit was almost annihilated in Galicia, only 250 men were left in the regiment. FR122 was transferred to the 243rd Infantry Division in March 1918 where it took part in the Spring Offensives. By the time the war had ended, the 19,000 men had belonged to the unit, "the total losses amounted to 3517 killed, 436 missing, 8774 wounded and 1933 prisoners." 77% of the men that served in the unit became casualties.

Defiantly a group of battle-hardened Württembergers and was probably one of the hardest fighting units of the war.

Here is a pic of the Regiment's Monument in Heilbronn.
http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...20060711231740

[C. Roelens]

Thanks for the information.

[MauserKar98k]

Thanks for the information.

No problem, I love doing this kind of research. Again, awesome pickelhaube.

[Abzeichen]

Very cool piece