Guards Cavalry Division (German Empire)

The Guards Cavalry Division (Garde-Kavallerie-Division) was a unit of the Prussian Army that was stationed in Berlin.

It served on the Western Front until December 1914, then undertook frontier guard duties against Holland until 30 June 1915, when it relocated to Russia.

Thereafter, it served as the Guard Cavalry Schützen Division on the Western Front.

[1] By the end of the war, it was serving under VI Reserve Corps, 1st Army, Heeresgruppe Deutscher Kronprinz on the Western Front.

[2] A more detailed combat chronicle can be found at the German-language version of this article.

German cavalry of the 11th Reserve Hussar Regiment in a trench in France in 1916