The 78th Reserve Infantry Regiment was a reserve infantry regiment of the Imperial German Army which served in World War I. The regiment was attached to the 37th Reserve Infantry Brigade, 78th Reserve Division, and it was deployed to the Eastern Front (including in Lithuania and at the Gorlice-Tarnow Offensive) before transferring to the Western Front in April 1917. The regiment fought in the Second Battle of the Aisne, at the Battle of Verdun, the Second Battle of the Marne, and in the Hundred Days Offensive at the end of the war before being dissolved and its remnants transferred to other units.
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The 78th Reserve Regiment marching to the front
The regiment's barracks at La Malmaison, France, 1917