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Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Grenadier Guards Other Ranks
Helmet M1848
Mecklenburg-Schwerin adopted a
Prussian style Pickelhaube in
1848. It had a squared peak,
yellow metal fittings and the
Mecklenburg four way fluted
spike with a ball top. The front
plate was a yellow metal
Mecklenburg-Schwerin oval star
with the coat of arms crowned n
the white metal on an oval
shield. The Mecklenburg
(blue/yellow/red) cockade was
worn under the right side
chinstrap boss.
The
1st Battalion of the first of
the two Mecklenburg-Schwerin
infantry regiments was named the
Grenadier Garde Bataillon
and wore the same helmet with
several distinctions. Under the
front plate coat of arms they
wore a plaque reading Grenadier
Garde and their chin scale boss
bore a grenade motif. On special
parades they wore the Grand
Ducal crown instead of the
Mecklenburg spike and a ribbon
cockade in striped reverse
colours (yellow/red/blue).
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