UR 11
I wrote about lancer regiments already, also about their beautiful headgear (here). I am attaching a badge depicting a czapka to this post, but also another, a second badge of the 11th lancer regiment. This is the regiment’s beautiful oval badge with the regiment number. Almost every cavalry regiment had some kind of badge, mostly beautiful and expensive enamel badges. The 11th Lancers are no exception to this rule.
The color of the cap and cap badges produced in series was adjusted to the color of the headgear of the given regiment. Other enameled badges also used this color as a base color. Here, however, we see two different colors: yellow and red. Badge manufacturers sometimes made mistakes: the red color of the oval badge is correct, the yellow badge of the Arkanzas company is incorrect. The producer made an even more serious mistake, as they produced the insignia of two non-existent regiments, the 9th and 10th.
The 11th Uhlans were mostly Czech-speaking, with a smaller number of Germans in the crew. Their headquarters was in Pardubice. They belonged to the cavalry brigade of the IX Corps, so they were mostly assigned to infantry divisions, not used as a full regiment. From 1917, they were only deployed as infantry units, like most other cavalry regiments.
