Uniforms and Equipment of the Old Army - Artillery - Foot Artillery - Prussia

The foot artillery was the heavy artillery.

In 1914 there existed the Guard Foot Artillery Regiment (Spandau), the Foot Artillery Training Regiment (Jüterbog), as well as the experimental battery of the Artillery Testing Commission (Kummersdorf) and 23 line regiments of foot artillery, including one Saxon (No. 20 in Dresden) and three Bavarian (Nos. 1–3, separate numbering).

The regiments were organized into 2 battalions of 4 batteries each and 1 harness detachment.

The foot artillery wore dark blue tunics with black collars and Brandenburg-style sleeve cuffs. Their patches were blue.

The white shoulder boards displayed the regiment number, and for the Guard Foot Artillery Regiment and the Foot Artillery Training Regiment, name insignia.

The latter also had yellow camel-hair lace with small loops on the collar and on the patches of the sleeve cuffs.

The black-lacquered helmet of the foot artillery differed from the helmet type of the field artillery by its flat scale chains.

The fittings were yellow, including the finial ball.

The Guard had the Guard eagle as a helmet ornament.

The line regiments bore the typical coat-of-arms eagle of the line infantry on the helmet.

A blackened chinstrap was worn with it.

The Foot Artillery Regiment General-Feldzeugmeister (Brandenburg) No. 3 (Mainz) had, as a parade feature on the helmet, a black horsehair plume.

The cap was made of dark blue cloth with a black facing strip and a ponceau-red edging around the top rim and around the edges of the facing strip.

The leather equipment was white for the Guard and black for the line.

The leg and footwear corresponded to those of the field artillery.

The braid was golden and smooth.

The coat was made of gray cloth with shoulder boards like those on the tunic and black collar patches.