Original Imperial German WWI Prussian Garde Soldier’s Bubble Frame Portrait - 16 x 22” Helmets still in 3rd Cyclist Brigade

still in 3rd Cyclist Brigade

the insignia was redesignated for the U

There is also a maker label for J

serving at first with the 73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot

which is partly covered by the cross guard like you usually see them

Original Imperial German WWI Prussian Garde Soldier’s Bubble Frame Portrait - 16 x 22” Helmets still in 3rd Cyclist BrigadeOriginal Item. Only One Available. This is a lovely WWI Bubble Frame portrait of an Imperial German soldier of the Prussian Garde, as indicated by the lovely wappen on his Pickelhaube. The Gardes du Corps (Regiment der Gardes du Corps) was the personal bodyguard of the king of Prussia and, after 1871, of the German Emperor (in German, the Kaiser). The unit was founded in 1740 by Frederick the Great. Its first commander was Friedrich von Blumenthal,