WW1 German Soldiers Hesse Lieb-Garde 115 Memorial Picture and Decorated Frame

An exceptionally rare Photographic set to a member of a very important Regiment . The frame has inset wood depictions of various patriotic scenes etc and has a scroll showing a stylized helmet in cover with numbers 115 . The picture of the lost love one to whom the frame is dedicated shows a pre war young enlisted man in best blue uniform wearing the exceptionally attractive and highly rare , Lieb-Garde Infantry Regiment , 115 Pickelhaulbe with parade brush fitted . The whole set has never been dismounted and the image remains strong . A wonderful item as is that would be a great compliment to a helmet collection . Leibgarde-Infanterie-Regiment (1. Großherzoglich Hessisches) Nr.115 was originally formed on 1 March 1621 as the Kompanie Dreßler. and therefore had the honour of being the oldest regiment in the German army. In 1630 they became the Fürstliche Leib-Kompanie.

The unit fought in almost every European war of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: the Thirty Years War, the Franco-Dutch War, the War of the League of Augsburg, the War of Spanish Succession, the War of Polish Succession, the War of Austrian Succession, the Seven Years War, the American War of Independence at the Battle of Saratoga and the Siege of Charlestown and the French Revolutionary Wars.

Hesse-Darmstadt allied with France in the Confederation of the Rhine and the regiment fought against Prussia in 1806-07, against Austria in 1809, against Britain in the Peninsular Campaign 1809-12, against Russia in the Invasion of Russia in 1812 and against Prussia and the Sixth Coalition at the Battle of Leipzig in 1813. After the Battle of Leipzig they fought against the French during the War of Liberation and the following allied invasion of France in 1814-15.

In 1848-49 the regiment was deployed to fight revolutionaries in Baden, while at the same time the IV Battalion fought against Denmark in the First Schleswig War. In the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, the regiment fought the Prussians at Frohnhofen and Gerchsheim. In the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 the regiment fought at the Battles of Mars-la-Tour and Gravelotte-St. Privat.

In 1914 the regiment was garrisoned at Darmstadt as part of the 25th Hessian Division of the XVIII Army Corps. The 1st Company of the regiment served as the Grand Duke’s bodyguard and held the title Großherzogs Leib-Kompanie. During the First World War they served with the rest of the Hessian Division on the Western Front, seeing action at the Battles of the Marne, Verdun and the Somme.

Code: 15316