Germany WWI Bavaria Regimental Cross of Honor of the 3rd Royal Bavarian Infantry Regiment "Prince Karl of Bavaria"

Imperial Germany – Kingdom of Bavaria: 
Regimental Cross of Honor with clasp of the 3rd 
Royal Bavarian Infantry Regiment, “Prince Karl 
of Bavaria”.
Inscribed: “Fur Konig und Vaterland” (For King 
and Country) & "In Treue Fest" (Steadfast in 
Loyalty).
These Crosses were awarded to the Bavarian 
Regiments roughly about the year 1900.
The 3rd Royal Bavarian Infantry Regiment was 
formed in 1698 as Grenadier-Guard Regimen of 
Kurpfalz. 
It participated in the Wars of Spanish & Austrian 
Succession, the Seven Year War, the Napoleonic 
Wars, the German Civil War of 1866, the Franco– 
Prussian War of 1870. 
During WW1 it served on both the Western and the 
Eastern Front (Battle of the Somme, Breakthrough 
at Gorlice-Tarnow, Danube Campaign, Battle of 
Verdun, Brusilov's Offensive, Campaign of the 
Carpathian Mountains, Battles of Alsace, Aisne, 
Flanders and the German Offensive in 1918).
The Regiment lost more than 5000 men between 
1914 and 1918. 
Following the Armistice it returned to Bavaria and 
was disbanded in Augsburg on 13 Dec. 1918.

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WW1 1914 -1918

Item 100% original - ribbon original

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