Gustav Karlovich Pilberg (1876 - 11/22/1919) - Colonel , participant of the First World War , George Knight , the last commander of the 13th Life-Grenadier Regiment of Erivan .
| Gustav Karlovich Pilberg | |||||||
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| Nickname | huntsman | ||||||
| Date of Birth | 1876 | ||||||
| Place of Birth | Livonia Province , Russian Empire | ||||||
| Date of death | November 22, 1919 | ||||||
| Place of death | Rostov-on-Don | ||||||
| Affiliation |  Russia | ||||||
| Type of army | grenadier | ||||||
| Years of service | 1897-1919 | ||||||
| Rank | Colonel (Art. 15.02.1916) | ||||||
| Commanded | 13th l-grenad. Erivan regiment. 05/25/1917 - after March 10, 1918 | ||||||
| Battles / Wars | World War I | ||||||
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Biography
Pilberg Gustav Karlovich 1876 - 11/22/1919. From the peasants of Livland lips . A native of Verossky County. Got a home education. In 1897, he entered the army as a volunteer in the 95th Krasnoyarsk Infantry Regiment in Yuryev. He served in the 179th Infantry. Ust-Dvinsk and the 180th infantry. Vindava regiment. He graduated from the Vilna infantry cadet school (1905), the rank of second lieutenant . Since 1905 in the 13th l-grenad. Erivan regiment . On 01/01/1909 - the captain in the 13th Life Grenadier Erivan Regiment, the tract Manglis . Member of the First World War . On the 18th of August 1914 - captain com. 8 companies. Commander of the Order of St. George 4 degrees . Wounds in the Lodz battle of Sochaczew 26-11-14 (moderate), under the Wlodawa station 04-08-15 (heavy - in the chest)
“The hero of the day of August 4 was Captain Pilberg, who rescued, at a critical moment of the battle, our 5th battery, which turned out to be in the field of rifle chains of the enemy. Having gathered around him everything that came to hand, since the reserves were no longer there, Captain Pilberg with a handful of grenadiers went over to the counterattack, discarded the stalking Germans and, thus, gave the battery the opportunity to cast in the front and withdraw from the position. During this counterattack, Captain Pilberg was severely wounded through the chest and dead and removed from the battlefield. For this case he was awarded Ord. St. George 4 degrees. " Vyshinsky, Yevgeny Evgenievich commander of the 13th Leib-Grenadier Erivan regiment.
- Leib Erivanians in the Great War. p. 148
Colonel order of 02/15/1916. The last commander of the 13th Life Grenadier Erivan Regiment 05/25/1917 - after 03/10/1918
From September 1918 in the Volunteer Army , he served in the 1st battalion and in the Combined Grenadier Team of the 1st Officer ( Markov ) Regiment. Wounded October 1, 1918 near Armavir in the hand of a rifle bullet. Deputy Commander of the Kuban Plastun Battalion, was treated in Ekaterinodar . In the summer of 1919, the commander of the 2nd Regimental Grenadier Regiment, from October 1919 the commander of the Combined Regiment of the Caucasian Grenadier Division of the 1st Kuban Equestrian Corps, gen. Pisarev . Shot himself as a patient with typhus on November 22, 1919 in Rostov-on-Don .
Notes
- Graduates of the VPUU-VVU (P)
- Pilberg, Gustav Karlovich . // Project "Russian Army in the Great War."
- White Russia website
Sources
- Leib Erivan in the Great War. Materials for the history of the regiment in the processing of the regimental historical commission edited by K. Popov . Paris, 1959.
- Memoirs of the Caucasian Grenadier, 1914-1920. Belgrade, Russian Printing House, 1925. Popov Konstantin. Sergeyevich.
- Temple of Glory . Paris, the publishing house "Renaissance", K. Popova 1931.
- Pilberg, Gustav Karlovich . // Project "Russian Army in the Great War."
- VP on the military department // Scout № 1279, 05/12/1915.
- VP on the military department // Scout № 1012