5th Cavalry Division (German Empire)
Eastern Front
The 5th Cavalry Division was a major unit of the German army and was formed as part of the mobilization at the beginning of the First World War.
- 2.1 of Battle at mobilization
Battle calendar
First, the Division has been used on the Western Front and moved the end of October 1914 the Eastern Front. There they remained even after the Treaty of Brest -Litovsk and was finally dissolved on 4 April 1918.
1914
- 4 to 13 August --- Border Patrol and reconnaissance fights against the army front of the Belgian- Luxembourg border
- 14 to 20 August --- Violent exploring the enemy positions at Dinant
- August 23-24 --- Battle of Namur
- August 29-30 --- Battle of St. Quentin
- September 6 to 9 --- Battle of the Petit Morin
- September 18-October 27 --- Trench warfare in the Champagne
- October 27 to November 2 --- Transportation to the East
- 3 to 5 November --- cavalry fighting on the waiting
- November 9 --- cavalry fighting on the Warta
- November 16-December 15 --- Battle of Łódź
- November 30 to December 4 --- Battle of Lask - Pabianice
- From December 18 --- Battle of the Rawka - Bzury
1915
- To January 9 --- Battle of the Rawka - Bzury
- January 10 to February 17 --- reserve the Southern Army
- February 18-25 --- fights at Rozniatow
- February 26 to March 2 --- battles north Stanislav
- March 6 to 23 --- battles at Harasimow, Zabokruki, Puzniki
- March 24 to May 8 --- Trench warfare on the Dniester and the Bessarabian border
- 9 to 13 May --- fighting between the Dniester and the Prut
- May 14 to June 7 --- Trench warfare on the Pruth
- June 7-8 --- march over the Prut
- 10 to 28 June --- Siege of Halicz by Marshal Group
- July 13 to August 28 --- fights at the kuk 1st Army July 20-21 --- Battle of Zdary
1916
- Position battle in the Pripet marshes
1917
- December 1 --- Trench warfare in the Pripet marshes
- December 2 to 17 --- ceasefire
- December 17 --- ceasefire
1918
- To 18 February --- ceasefire
- April 4 --- Resolution Division
Structure
Of Battle at mobilization
- 9th Cavalry Brigade Dragoon Regiment " von Bredow " (1st Silesian ) # 4
- Uhlan Regiment " Prince August of Württemberg" (Posen Regiment) # 10
- Leib- Cuirassier Regiment "Great Elector " ( Silesian ) # 1
- Dragoon Regiment " King Frederick III. " (2 Silesian ) # 8