Garde du Corps of Gren-Kisielia

The Garde du Corps of His Highness, the Count of the Free Palace of Gren-Kisielia and Her Surrounding Territories is a small-scale, mostly ceremonial, bodyguard formed for Prince Szgraf Edel Antoni Fryderyk Gajmerski-Anhaleri, who became the self-titled continuer of the princely title of the Prince of Gajmergrad.

The first squadron of the Corps was founded as the Prince and his questionably acquired staff undertook the arduous trek South East upon landing on the world of Abexialis. The Corps was originally comprised of 40 men of mostly-male Grenian civilians and peasants, who were allowed to join the unit as, at the time of recruitment, it did not have any sort of members at all as a result of the War of the Comet, which were locally dubbed, "the End Days." The commanding officer of this iteration of the Corps was a recently promoted Uppermost-Captain od Debilmerski, who passed away on the trek to the settlement area due to dysentery. The second squadron was formed once the new land was settled.

History
As mentioned previously, the Garde du Corps was more specifically founded by the Prince's personal 74 year-old Trabant, who was an ex-legionarie and ex-KSKD member, who, due to his age, decided not to lead the Corps due to his age. Instead, after approval from the Prince, a much younger feldfebel, od Debilmerski, was selected to be the commander of the squadron. Immediately, he was promoted to captain, then being given the designation of Uppermost-Captain as to entice the new officer to stay. The promotion of the feldfebel was one that was seen with controversy, which quickly dispersed as most members of the entourage did not care.

After the selection of a commanding officer, 40 men from the entourage volunteered to become apart of the Corps, mostly peasants with sprinklings of veterans, though very few. Tragically, before the feldfebel saw any combat with the Garde du Corps, he perished due to dysentery caused by drinking contaminated water. He died alongside 5 others from the Corps.

The death of od Debilmerski left the Garde du Corps without an official commander until they reached the lands South East of Abexillas, and joined the Grand Duchy of Vedancia. A few months after being apart of the Grand Duchy and wider Empire, a permanent headquarters was established for the Corps, under the East wing of the 'Soliana' palace. With the creation of this headquarters, a proper staff was created for the Corps, and it was expanded to a two-squadron unit, due to the influx of attention caused by one of the officer's custom uniform, sewed by his wife out of boredom.

A new Uppermost-Captain was selected by the staff, who was ex-cornet of the Corps, Cornet z Gemering. Bermiszk z Gemering was from the House of z Gemering, which was an old Gajmergradian noble family who ruled over the land of Gemering, his original title of Cornet is assumed to have come from that connection.

Uniform
During their early formation, the unit was purely practical, skirmishing and arresting bandits, not requiring the use of any uniform. Eventually, the members of the Corps decided to wear a sort of green ribbon around their chest, in the style of a sash.

As the Corps expanded, the need for a uniform was made, however was pushed back until settlement. Using the example of a uniform worn by an officer of the Corps, Uppermost-Captain z Gemering decided to adopt a uniform in the following style: a brass buttoned sky-blue single-breasted tunic, faced maroon and piped in gold embroidery, with sharp double buttoned cuffs; long maroon riding breeches with a single gold-colored gallon on the outer-seams, decorated with a Corps trouser knot, similar in style to those of Gren-Leger-Halski folk dress; highly-polished black leather riding boots, in the pattern of those worn by Hussarian infantry officers; maroon fringeless epaulettes with brass bullion crests; a silver-plated steel cuirass, rated to withstand flintlock pistol shot, with ornamental gold-plated brass ornaments, with a maroon under-vest attached to the cuirass; and a steel leather-covered helmet of 'field' pattern, with a brass arch and a black sheep-wool crest. A black plume, dipped green, was worn on the left side while in full dress, which was described as being small-scale inspections and the battle-field.

Non-commissioned officers wear the same dress, however have rank stripes on their arms. The plume they have on their helmets is also fully maroon.

Officers ware the same dress with a few differences: aiguillettes are worn in full dress, epaulettes follow the officer pattern, a special cartridge box is worn, the cuirass adorns the emblem of the coat of arms of Gren-Kisielia, trouser-knots are those of the family the officer comes from if they are a noble, more embroidery is found on the collar, the helmet is more decorated and the plume is white with a black tip.