WW1 Regiment Help Please? RIR 237

[monty]

Just wondering if there is anyone who can give some help with this matter below.

I have a friend who is researching his grandfather in WW1.

He served in the following units with the attached dates:

25.09.16 - 08.11.18 3./RIR 237
09.11.18 - 25.01.19 10./RIR 237

Can anyone help with any info on the RIR 237? (I do have a 1914-18 Army list but I cannot find the RIR 237 for some reason.)

He in particular is after the commanders of these units if possible during these dates.

Many thanks!

[Gerdan]

Here I found some poor information on Reserve Inf. Regt. 237 im WW 1:

At the beginning of WWI he is asigned to the staff of the VIIth R.K. which included the 13th and 14th R.D.'s. As a staff officer he sees some action near Chemin Des Dames ( Battle of the Aisne). On 24 October 1914 he is transferred to Flanders and becomes KompanieFuhrer of I/RIR213. On 30 November 1914 he is seriously wounded near Weidendrift and is evacuated to Germany. Five months later he returns to the front and KompanieFuhrer of II/RIR236 and saw action N of Ypres. On 23 September 1915 he gets EK I . At the end of 1915 he is transferred to II/ RIR 237 which is fighting in the Ypres Salient.

In August 1916 RIR 237 is transferred to the Eastern front and supports the KUK army in Galicia against the Russians. and on 25 November 1916 he is promoted to Major and receives Das Ritterkreuz mit Schwertern des Haus-Orden von Hohenzollern on 26 November 1916. In the begin of 1917, he's back on the Western Front, first in the Somme area later near Arras.

Between 14 May 1917 and 23/6/17 he was Regiment-Kommandeur of IR 114. During the summer, he is back with his Kameraden of the RIR 237, and remains in Flanders till march 1918. On 14/1/18 he receives the Lippisches Kriegsverdienstkreuz. From 21 March 1918 his batallion (II/RIR237) is part of the German spring offensive and on 15 July, Lange's Bn. participated in the last major attack of the German Army. Lange got fatally injured on this very day. He dies in Bonn on 9 September 1918 at 44 years of age. He received the PLM in hospital on 21 July 1918 and was buried in the old cemetery of Schwerin.

Gerdan