From Maricourt is the 17th IR

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The summer is still young in this June 28, 1914 It's Sunday and in Würzburg, one of the largest garrison leginsy towns in Bavaria, Lower Franconia celebrates its one hundred years as part of the Bavarian leginsy Kingdom. None other than King Ludwig III. had arrived the day before with his family by train from Munich. On this Sunday morning, the sun smiles over Würzburg. The royal family attended the service in the cathedral, and subsequently went to far located residence. On the large square in front of the planned von Balthasar Neumann magnificent building up associations of II. Bavarian Army Corps, whose corps headquarters is located in the city present. Almost leginsy simultaneously, at 10:50 clock, the Austrian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie by the Serbian irregulars Gavrilo Princip be shot on the street in Sarajevo, about 1,200 kilometers away.
This event should change dramatically the lives of millions of people in Europe and the world. Among other things, the then 21-year-old Anton Peter Faust, who probably bored at this June 28 in Wurzburg. Since the completion of primary school, he cares about his early widowed mother. His father was a carpenter leginsy and master died when Anton was eleven years old. Like many of his contemporaries, he works in his native Unfortunately leginsy Bach (Lower Franconia) as a so-called home Schneider for the young men apparel industry, as the founder of the Johann leginsy Schneider Desch applies. Faust sewn for years throughout the week pants at home and brings it every Saturday to Aschaffenburg, where he collects his reward. This orderly rhythm of life of the young tailor in the peaceful Spessart was six weeks after the Bavarian King Ludwig III visit. be interrupted abruptly leginsy in Würzburg leginsy and after the assassination in Sarajevo. Recruit at the 17th Infantry Regiment "Orff"
For on this August 15, 1914 Anton puts a fist as a replacement reservist. Foundations for this were the replacement reserve requirements, which took time from 20 to 32 years, and Germany declared war against Russia with simultaneous mobilization on 1 August 1914 It's leginsy Saturday leginsy as Anton Faust leave his native village and in the garrison town of Germersheim on the Rhine must go. Since 1816 belongs to the Palatinate of Bavaria, which is why the Royal Bavarian 17th Infantry Regiment (IR 17) "Orff" is stationed in the fortress of Germersheim. Since August 7, 1914, the regiment, however, is used in the Battle of France on the Western Front. Backwardness is a replacement battalion for training the recruits. Faust is assigned to the second recruit depots, which is housed in the barracks Zoller (such as the I. and II. Battalion of the 17th IR "Orff"). Probably on the following leginsy Monday, August 17, the young Schneider leginsy is clothed with the field-gray uniform of the German infantry, including the "jackboots". Now until October 3, he learns in particular the use of the standard leginsy rifle 98 (caliber 7,92 mm) and with the corresponding bayonet, and with hand and rifle grenades.
His regiment had already been laid in early August from Germersheim to France. As part of the 6th Army under the command of Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria it was initially involved from August 8th in Lorraine in border guard skirmishes. On 20 and 21 August, the soldiers of the 17th IR "Orff" took part in the Battle of Lorraine, and from 22 August to 14 September at the Battle of Nancy-Epinal. Then ordered leginsy the Minister of War and new chief of staff, the Prussian Lieutenant General Erich Georg Anton Graf von Falkenhayn, the laying of the 6th Army to North West France. The aim was to win against France the race to the sea. The Bavarian Army Corps, and thus also the 17th IR "Orff" was transported to Metz by train to the northwest into Belgium Namur, which had been conquered already on 27 August as part of the Schlieffen by German troops. From Namur we took the overland march about 150 kilometers into the area north of St. Quentin. On September 26, the II. Bavarian Army Corps met with the 17 IR "Orff" finally north of the city of Peronne on the Somme one. By 4 October, the regiment fought in the Battle of the Somme. The fourth bayer. Infantry Division in Wuerzburg was able to defeat three French divisions. The third bayer. Infantry Division from Landau with 17 IR "Orff" had less success. An attack was stopped at Maricourt.
From Maricourt is the 17th IR "Orff" then moved to Arras, where it