German Prussian Guard “Suum Cuique” Star 1928 Bremen Tinnie
$64.97
A very fine Prussian Garde star tinnie in gilt Tombac with a horizontal pin attached with pin-plate. Unmarked. Includes a black & white ribbon for the Prussian state colors. Measures 40mm by 28mm. Modeled on the Order of the Black Eagle. It is for the North West German Garde Veterans Association 1928 reunion in Bremen.
The Guards Corps/GK (German: Gardekorps) was a corps level command of the Prussian and then the Imperial German Armies from the 19th century to World War I.
The Corps was headquartered in Berlin, with its units garrisoned in the city and nearby towns (Potsdam, Jüterbog, Döberitz). Unlike all other Corps of the Imperial German Army, the Guards Corps did not recruit from a specific area, but from throughout Prussia and the “Imperial Lands” of Alsace-Lorraine.
In peacetime the Corps was assigned to the II Army Inspectorate but joined the 2nd Army at the start of the First World War. It was still in existence at the end of the war in the 4th Army, Heeresgruppe Kronprinz Rupprecht, on the Western Front. The Corps was disbanded with the de-mobilisation of the German Army after World War I.
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