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The 76th Infantry Regiment came from the 17th Infantry Division. The 164th Infantry Regiment was formerly part of the 20th Infantry Division. The 73rd Füsiliers and the 164th Infantry were Hanoverian regiments, and the 76th was the regiment of the Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Cavalry support came in the form of two squadrons of Baden's 22nd ...
36th (Magdeburg) Fusiliers "General Field Marshal Count Blumenthal" 13 December 1815: Halle, Bernburg: IV Army Corps: 37th (West Prussian) Fusiliers "von Steinmetz" 26 January 1818: Krotoschin: V Army Corps: 38th (Silesian) Fusiliers "General Field Marshal Count Moltke" 26 January 1818: Glatz: VI Army Corps: 39th (Lower Rhenish) Fusiliers: 26 ...
On 1 August 1914, shortly after the start of World War I, Jünger enlisted as a one year volunteer and joined the 73rd Hannoverian Fusilier Regiment of the 19th Division, and, after training, was transported to the Champagne front in December. He was wounded for the first time in April 1915.
The Hanoverian Army (German: Hannoversche Armee) was the standing army of the Electorate of Hanover from the seventeenth century onwards. From 1692 to 1803 it acted in defence of the electorate. Following the Hanoverian Succession of 1714, this was in conjunction with the British Army with which it shared a monarch.
73rd Fusilier Regiment 74th Infantry Regiment 19th Field Artillery Brigade 26th Field Artillery Regiment 62nd Field Artillery Regiment half of 17th Hussar Regiment 1st Company, 10th Pioneer Battalion 19th Divisional Pontoon Train 1st Medical Company 3rd Medical Company 20th Division: 39th Infantry Brigade 79th Infantry Regiment
Lower Rhine Fusilier Regiment, No. 39; 1st Hanoverian Infantry Regiment, No. 74; 28th Brigade : Generalmajor Wilhelm von Woyna 5th Westphalian Infantry Regiment, No. 53; 2nd Hanoverian Infantry Regiment, No. 77; Attached to Division Four batteries (two heavy and two light) of the 7th Westphalian field-artillery Regiment; Hanoverian Hussar ...
Storm of Steel begins with Jünger, as a private, entering the line with the 73rd Hanoverian Regiment in Champagne. His first taste of combat came at Les Éparges in April 1915 where he was first wounded by a piece of shrapnel piercing his thigh. After recuperating, he took an officer's course and achieved the rank of Leutnant.
A gap appeared between Infantry Regiment 164 and Fusilier Regiment 73, I Battalion being taken by surprise and almost "annihilated"; more than 700 soldiers were captured and many were killed. The II and III battalions of Fusilier Regiment 73, attempted a morning counter-attack from Leuze Wood but were stopped by British artillery.