Found a little info on the 132nd Imperial German Infantry Regiment:
This unit was a Prussian infantry regiment, Nr. 132, or as the Prussians would have referred to it as 1.Unter=Elsässisches Infantrie=Regiment. It was established on March 24, 1881 with its headquarters and three battalions in Strasburg and remained there until the outbreak of WWI.
At the beginning of WWI, the 132nd was assigned to the 39 Infantry Division and stayed assigned to them for the entirety of WWI. The 39th Div was part of the XV Corps, 7th Imperial German Army. The 39th fought on the Western Front for all of WWI and participated in the key battles, Champagne, Flanders, Verdun, Somme, Argonne, Picardy, Arras, and Cambrai and was in the Ypres sector at the war’s conclusion.
Allied intelligence assessment of this division in 1918 was: “”The 39th is rated as a second class division. With the exception of a statement in the German communiqué of October 2, that the 132nd Regiment had displayed “unusual fighting ability” in the operations of Menin, there is nothing to show that the division had distinguished itself in any way in the fighting in 1918.””
Would love to see some pictures of this “old soldier”…..
Ron
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