2nd Guards Infantry Division (German Empire)

The 2nd Guards Infantry Division (German: 2. Garde-Infanterie-Division) was a unit in the Guards Corps of the Imperial German Army during the First World War. At the outbreak of war it was commanded by Lieutenant General Arnold von Winckler.[1]

Order of battle: 1914

3rd Guards Infantry Brigade
4th Guards Infantry Brigade
2nd Guards Field Artillery Brigade
2nd Guards Uhlans (1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th Squadrons)
2nd and 3rd Company, Guards Pioneer Battalion
2nd Section, Guards Field Ambulance Company

References

The First Battle of the Marne 1914: The French miracle halts the Germans, Ian Sumner page 22.

Army level commands of the Imperial German Army in World War I

Numbered Armies

Armee-Abteilung

A (Falkenhausen)
B (Gaede)
C (Strantz)
D (Scholtz)
Gronau
Lauenstein
Woyrsch

Named Armies

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