3rd Foot Guards (German Empire)
The 3rd Foot Guards were an infantry regiment of the Royal Prussian Army. The regiment was formed in 1860.[1] As part of the Guards Corps it fought in the Second Schleswig War, the Austro-Prussian war, the Franco-Prussian war and World War I. The regiment was disbanded in 1919 with the Infantry Regiment 9 Potsdam bearing its tradition.
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References
- ^ Graf von Schlitz gen. von Görtz und Wrisberg, Lubbrecht, ed. (1891). Das 3. Garde Regiment zu Fuß - 1860 bis 1890 (in German). Berlin: E.S. Mittler & Sohn. p. 22.