WW1 German Soldiers Paybook 17th Infantry Regiment.

Always interesting a WW1 German Soldiers pay book for Private Strauss of the 3rd reserve company 17th infantry regiment. He was born on 12th October 1883 and married in 1908. He was 5’5” and wore a short beard. He served from September 1915 and issued a gas mask in July 1916 and was discharged in March 1919.
The 17th Infantry Regiment served as part of the German 21st Corps. Which contained 27 infantry battalions, 9 machine gun companies, 8 cavalry squadrons, 24 field artillery batteries with 144 guns, 4 heavy artillery batteries with 16 guns, 3 pioneer companies, and an aviation detachment.
On mobilisation, XXI Corps was assigned to the predominantly Bavarian 6th Army forming part of the left wing of the forces for the Schlieffen Plan offensive in August 1914 on the Western Front. By 1915 it was on the Eastern Front where it took part in the siege of Kaunas and the battles on the Neman River and at Vilnius and was still in existence at the end of the war.
This book is in good condition for a 110 year old piece of ephemera, a little fragile and back cover detached.

Code: 31319