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Kürassier-Regiment Königin (Pommersches) Nr.2 Pasewalk was the titular regiment for the Kaiser's wife. With a regimental home in Pasewalk, there is still an exchange of visitors between this town and Halen.
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Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858 – 1921) was the last German Empress and Queen of Prussia. Her full German name was Auguste Victoria (also spelled Viktoria) Friederike Luise Feodora Jenny von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg. In the uniform of Kürassier-Regiment Königin (Pommersches) Nr.2 Pasewalk II Corps
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Augusta was known as "Dona" within the family. She enjoyed a somewhat lukewarm relationship with her mother-in-law, Victoria, who had hoped that Dona would help to heal the rift between herself and Wilhelm; sadly, this was not to be the case. The Empress was also annoyed that the title of Head of the Red Cross went to Dona, who had no nursing or charity experience or inclination (though in her memoirs, Princess Viktoria Luise paints a different picture, stating that her mother loved charity work).
Reportedly, when Empress Victoria complained about Augusta Victoria, her mother, Queen Victoria, said that Augusta Victoria was a little nobody who would never have become anything without marriage with Wilhelm.
Augusta often took pleasure in snubbing her mother-in-law, usually small incidents, such as telling her that she would be wearing a different dress than the one the Empress had recommended, that she would not be riding to get her figure back after childbirth as Wilhelm had no intention of stopping at one son, and informing the Empress that Augusta's daughter, Viktoria, was not named after her (though, again, in her memoirs, Viktoria Luise states that she was named after both her grandmother and her great-grandmother, Queen Victoria).
Augusta and her mother-in-law grew closer for a few years when Wilhelm became emperor, as Augusta was often lonely while he was away on military exercises and turned to her mother-in-law for companionship of rank, although she never left her children alone with her lest they be influenced by her well-known liberalism. Nevertheless, the two were often seen out riding in a carriage together. Augusta was at the 'Empress Frederick's' bedside when she died of spinal cancer in 1901.
Augusta also had less than cordial relationships with some of Wilhelm's sisters, especially the recently married Crown Princess Sophie of Greece. In 1890, when Sophie announced her intention to leave her Evangelical faith for Greek Orthodoxy, Dona summoned her and told her that if she did so, not only would Wilhelm find it unacceptable, being the head of the Evangelical State Church of Prussia's older Provinces; she would be barred from Germany and her soul would end up in Hell. Sophie replied that it was her business whether or not she did. Augusta became hysterical and gave birth prematurely to her son, Prince Joachim, as a result of which she was protective of him for the rest of his life, believing that he was delicate. Evidently, so did Wilhelm; he wrote to his mother that if the baby died, Sophie would have murdered it.
In 1920, the shock of exile and abdication, combined with the breakdown of Joachim's marriage and his subsequent suicide, proved too much for Augusta. She died in 1921, in House Doorn at Doorn in the Netherlands. The Weimar Republic allowed her remains to be transported back to Germany, where they still lie in the Temple of Antiquities, not far from the New Palace, Potsdam. |
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The great learning experience from this has been about the Wappen. based on the keen observation of a collector from the West Coast of Canada it seemed as though helmets with a similar type of bandeau Might follow the same pattern - Active Wappen with "tails" and reserve wappen without. This is reinforced by several examples such as this one of Fusilier Regts. 33-34 in Johansson p. 41, Stubbs on pgs. 134-35. There were also some artillery battalions that employed this style of bandeau, but pics of reservist's helmets are hard to find...
However, there is an example in Johansson on p40 of a Reserve GR9 officer helmet (Colberg 1807) with the tails.What this seems to indicate is that reserve plates with absent tails are merely a variation rather than an official mandate...
This is validated by an absolutely wonderful example provided by Bruno Peault showing the exact opposite of the example on the left.
The bottom line is that there are two variations on these bandeau and they do not seem to fit any kind of special pattern. I don't think you'll find this in any reference book. |