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A sign of things to come, a column of men from 3. Unter-Elsässisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr.138 on the march, July 1913 by ✠ drakegoodman ✠ Via Flickr: Divided reverse. Letter on reverse dated 30.7.1913 and addressed to a Fräulein in Schmalkalden, Thuringia. Postage cancelled a day later at Oberhofen. Photogr. Horst Diez, Truppenübungsplatz, Oberhofen Els. A sign of things to come, a column of men from 3. Unter-Elsässisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr.138 on the march near the large training area at Oberhofen, July 1913. Upon mobilisation, 3. Unter-Elsässisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr.138, part of the the 42nd Divsion (6th Armee - Prince Bupprecht of Bavaria) fought in the Battle of the Frontiers and then in the Race to the Sea. The Division was then transferred to the Eastern Front, seeing action in 1915 in the Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes, Gorlice-Tarnów Offensive and Operation Albion. It remained on the Eastern Front until December 1917, when it returned to France. In 1918, it fought in the Battle of the Lys and faced various Allied offensives, including the Hundred Days Offensive. Allied intelligence rated the division as third class.