The Dunkelblau Uniform and Kokarden

<<This artwork may be a little hard to read, but it is a page taken straight out of a period manual. On the top are the various cockades, or Korkades, worn by troops from the different states. Imperial Germany was really something of a confederation, with all the former small states retaining different levels of autonomy from the central government. These were worn on the field cap, or Feldütze, with a cockade of the national colors on top, (here shown in the top center) and a cockade of the state colors below. (the Prussian colors were black/white/black, shown at the far left of the top row)

Also shown at top left is the red cross armband, called here a “neutrality badge”.

At the bottom are the different company-colored bayonet knots, as discussed in the uniform page, as well as a selection of shooting prizes, or cords, below.

More Dunkelblau for Our Unit

Below is a montage put together by the very handy and irrepressible Herrn Hoffmann to show what the proper uniform would be for IR23, IR 62, IR63 and IR157