Uniforms and Equipment of the Old Army - Cavalry - Uhlan Regiments - the Bavarian Uhlans
Bavaria provided two Uhlan regiments in the Old Army, which had their own numbering and were garrisoned in Bamberg (No. 1) and Ansbach (No. 2).
They were:
Uhlan Regiment Kaiser Wilhelm II, King of Prussia (Bamberg) - Founding date: 21.12.1863.
Uhlan Regiment King (Ansbach) - Founding date: 21.12.1863.
The regiments were formed from former squadrons of various Chevaulegers regiments.
They spent World War I together, first on the Western Front (Battle of the Marne, Flanders), then from April 1915 in the East. In February 1919 they returned to their home garrisons.
The Bavarian Uhlans wore steel-green caps, ulankas and trousers.
Crimson red were
the trim stripe on the cap,
as well as the collar,
the pointed sleeve cuffs and
the parade braid on the ulanka and
the trim stripe on the trousers.
The parade braid of the headgear (tschapka) was also crimson red.
As headgear they wore the black-leather tschapka with a crimson-red cover (M 1873; previously there was the M 1864).
The cover (kouvert) was sewn on permanently, so unlike the parade braid it could not be removed.
The front visor was edged in silver for officers. The attached rear visor as well.
For the enlisted men only the front visor was edged with a metal strip.
The scale chains were nickel-silver or silver-plated and were held by lion clasps.
The chin cords were silver with blue interweaving for officers. For the enlisted men they were white.
The chin cords were secured to the tschapka — at the right corner of the top — by a silver or nickel-silver lion-head hook.
At the front was the royal name cipher with crown.
The parade plume consisted of white horsehair and had a blue-and-white metal cockade. Therefore, when the parade plume was worn the actual field emblem was not worn.
In 1886 the Prussian tschapka model shown here was introduced. These now displayed the well-known lion coat of arms at the front.
The two regiments differed primarily in the color of their buttons: No. 1 white and No. 2 yellow.
The braids, as well as the fittings, ornamentation and scale chains of the tschapka and the half-moons on the epaulettes, were likewise executed in the respective button color.
According to Haber (Die Cavallerie des Deutschen Reiches. Derselben Entstehung, Entwicklung und Geschichte, ..., 1877, reprint Krefeld 1977, p. 333 ff.), the Bavarian Uhlan regiments carried no standards.
Bavarian Uhlans in cigarette cards.
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