Armies in plastic german uhlans aug 1914 (1 Viewer)

9thHussar

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hi

picture of 3 painted Armies in Plastic German Lancers August 1914 during opening stages of the Great War

Scott can you place the photo on here as I always struggle

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regards
9th
 
9thHussar said:
hi

picture of 3 painted Armies in Plastic German Lancers August 1914 during opening stages of the Great War

Scott can you place the photo on here as I always struggle

210409093.jpga href="http://s301.photobucket

regards
9th
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Wonderful work ! Thanks for sharing.

Randy
 
Hi, thanks - does anyone know how many regiments of lancers there were in the German army in 1914 and their piping colours
Regards
9th
 
9thHussar said:
Hi, thanks - does anyone know how many regiments of lancers there were in the German army in 1914 and their piping colours
Regards
9th
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Here's a start. You can check the sources used by this wikipedia article..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uhlan#19th_Century

World War I

German Uhlans In 1914 the Imperial German Army included twenty-six Uhlan regiments, three of which were Guard regiments, twenty-one line (sixteen Prussian, two Württemberg and three Saxon) and two from the autonomous Royal Bavarian Army. The senior of these was Ulanen-Regiment Kaiser Alexander III. von Rußland which was first raised in 1745. All German Uhlan regiments wore Polish style czapkas and tunics with plastron fronts, both in coloured parade uniforms and the field grey service dress introduced in 1910. Because German hussar, dragoon and cuirassier regiments also carried lances in 1914 there was a tendency among their French and British opponents to describe all German cavalry as "uhlans".

The lance carried by the uhlans (and after 1889 the entire German cavalry branch) consisted of a 318 cm (ten foot and five inch) long tube made of rolled steel-plate, weighing 1.6 kg (three pound and nine ounces). The lance carried below its head a small pennant in differing colours according to the province or state from which the regiment was recruited. The four edged spear-like point of the shaft was 30 cm (12 inches) in length and made of tempered steel. The butt end of the shaft was also pointed so that (in theory) the lance could be wielded as a double ended weapon.

After seeing mounted action during the early weeks of World War I the Uhlan regiments were either dismounted to serve as "cavalry rifles" in the trenches of the Western Front, or transferred to the Eastern Front where more primitive conditions made it possible for horse cavalry to still play a useful role. All twenty-six German Uhlan regiments were disbanded in 1918 – 1919.


List of Imperial German Uhlan regiments

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_Uhlan_Regiments
 
There's a collection of prints in the NYPL of uniform plates. The Uhlans are still in blue pre WW I uniforms but the plates show the piping colors and the name/number of the unit which I'm guessing was kept on the field grey uniform.

You can at least have fun looking at the plates..Ten ....fifteen minutes looking at the pages should do it.


http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?parent_id=769613&word=

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?parent_id=769612&word=



http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?parent_id=769611&word=

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?parent_id=769610&word=

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?parent_id=769609&word=

Examples from the pages...


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hi scott

thanks - very informative and educational - the early months of the war were not unlike the Napoleonic open warfare of 100 years earlier but mostly overshadowed by the general images of the later trench warfare

regards
9th
 
I'm hoping Armies-In-Plastic does early WW I French and British Infantry w/o helmets. (I see the French as Franco Prussian War for me)

Some early war French cavalry would be great as well.
 
Hi Scott

I am working on 5 x AIP British Lancers 1914 - so will post photos when done

Regards
9th
 
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