This is the index for my exhaustive series of articles on the Saxon Landsturm infantry for Colonel Joe Robinson's WW1 German history group on Facebook. All of these heavily illustrated pieces were originally 'public', so you did not need to log in to Facebook (or even possess an account!) to read them.

Unfortunately the group has since gone PRIVATE, so currently you will need to join to view these pieces. I hope to either get this changed for my posts only, or else to recreate them on this website (which would be a LOT of work...).

We are grateful for the sharing of relevant material by fellow collectors including the colonel himself, Bert Butterworth (Drakegoodman), Karl Bandow and others, all of whom are individually credited in the photo captions.

Above: Unidentified Saxon Landsturm unit in the field, August 1917

• The Watch in the Saxon Mountains - Grenzschutztruppen of XII. and XIX. Armeekorps, 1914-1919
• From occupied Belgium to Alsace and the Niemen - Landsturm-Infanterie-Bataillon Dresden XII.1 and XII.2
• From Bautzen to the Białowieża Forest - Landsturm-Infanterie-Bataillon Bautzen XII.3 and Meissen XII.4
• Middle-aged militiamen versus machine-guns - Landsturm-Infanterie-Bataillon Pirna XII.5 (and Freiberg XII.6)
• From Wachstuchmütze to Stahlhelm: the Evolution of Landsturm-Infanterie-Bataillon Zittau XII.7
• Landsturm-Infanterie-Bataillon Großenhain XII.8 and Kriegsgefangenenlager Truppenübungsplatz Königsbrück
• The Workhorses of the Dresden and Bautzen Garrisons: Landsturm-Infanterie-Bataillon Flöha XII.9 and 1. Landsturm-Ersatz-Bataillon Bautzen XII.10
• From Guarding POWs to Holding Trenches - 2. Landsturm-Ersatz-Bataillon XII.11 and 3. Landsturm-Ersatz-Bataillon XII.12
• Saxon Landsturm in Romania and Italy, in the trenches and on the borders - 4. Landsturm-Ersatz-Bataillon XII.13 to Landsturm-Infanterie-Bataillon XII.22
• The Publishers of Vouziers and the Gravediggers of Mariembourg - Landsturm-Infanterie-Bataillon Leipzig XIX.1 and XIX.2
• Strolling in the Albertgarten and entrenched on the Wilija - Landsturm-Infanterie-Bataillon Leipzig XIX.3 and XIX.4
• From Festung Metz to ‘Russian Poland’ - 5. Landsturm-Infanterie-Bataillon Leipzig XIX.5 and 1. Landsturm-Ersatz-Bataillon Leipzig XIX.6
• Instructors at Zeithain and Camp Guards at Golzern - Landsturm-Infanterie-Bataillon Borna XIX.7 and Döbeln XIX.8
• Ghent, Kortrijk and the ‘Wire of Death’ - Landsturm-Infanterie-Bataillon Wurzen XIX.9 (Part 1 of 2)
• Holding the line at Argonnerwald, on the Toter Mann and in the Vosges - Landsturm-Infanterie-Bataillon Wurzen XIX.9 (Part 2 of 2)
• 1. Landsturm-Infanterie-Bataillon Chemnitz XIX.10 and Kriegsgefangenenlager Chemnitz-Ebersdorf
• From Brussels to the Argonne Forest - 2. Landsturm-Infanterie-Bataillon Chemnitz XIX.11 and 3. Landsturm-Infanterie-Bataillon Chemnitz XIX.12
• Hammerstein camp, Danzig harbour and the homely billets of Zwickau - 2. Landsturm-Ersatz-Bataillon Chemnitz XIX.13 and Landsturm-Infanterie-Bataillon Annaberg XIX.14
• Oberst Graesse’s Men and the Guardians of the Göltzschtalbrücke - Landsturm-Infanterie-Bataillon Glauchau XIX.15 and Landsturm-Infanterie-Bataillon Plauen XIX.16
• Landsturm-Infanterie-Bataillon Schneeberg XIX.17 and Kriegsgefangenenlager Zwickau (I and II)
• Two unlucky rabbits and an overlooked border - Landsturm-Infanterie-Bataillon Zwickau XIX.18, Auerbach XIX.19 and Rochlitz XIX.20
• At Festung Posen, on Festung Borkum and in the ‘Lausechampagne’ - Landsturm-Infanterie-Bataillon Leipzig XIX.21, Chemnitz XIX.22, Leipzig XIX.23 and XIX.24
• From Truppenübungsplatz Zeithain to the Dobrudja, Macedonia and the trenches of the Vosges - 8. Landsturm-Infanterie-Bataillon Leipzig XIX.25 to Landsturm-Infanterie-Bataillon Grimma XIX.34