3rd Guards Infantry Division

Formed on mobalisation in August 1914

5th Guards Infantry Brigade	To 4th Guards Division (May 1915) Transferred to the 4th Guards Infantry Division on the 8th May 1915.  It came from the 2nd Guards Division originally.
5th Foot Guards Formed on 31st March 1897, garrisoned in Spandau.	5th Foot Guards To 4th Guards Division (May 1915)
5th Guards Grenadiers Formed on 31st March 1897, garrisoned in Spandau.	5th Guards Grenadiers To 4th Guards Division (May 1915)
6th Guards Infantry Brigade
Guard Fusilier Regiment Formed on 30th March 1826, garrisoned in Berlin.	Guards Fusilier Regiment
Lehr Infantry Regiment Formed on 30th December 1819, garrisoned in Berlin.	Lahr Infantry Regiment
9th Colberg (Count Gneisenau) (2nd Pomeranian) Grenadiers formed on 7th June 1808 Based in Stargard	From 3rd Infantry Division (July 1916)

The 3rd Guards Division started the war on the Western Front but was quickly moved to the East where it took part in the Battle of the Masurian Lakes.  It then marched into the Carpathians taking part in the Battle of Tarnapol.

In 1916 it was back in action on the Western Front at the Somme.  It was then sent back the Eastern Front before returning to Lorraine on the Western Front at the end of the year.

It spent 1917 in Flanders and took part in the battle of Cambrai and the fighting on the Hindenburg line.

In 1918 it fought in the Kaisers Battle or the Great Battle in France, before falling back into Germany at the end of the war.