ID two disc

**Boski Roman** · 09-07-2013, 10:02 AM

Hi all!
Good or not?

Regards

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 09-07-2013 10:02 AM

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**Stacez** · 09-07-2013, 08:32 PM

12. G.R. 528. = 12. (Kompanie) Grenadier-Regiment 528 - 12th Company/ 528th Grenadier Regiment
Grenadier-Regiment 528

12./ J.R. 188 = 12. (Kompanie)/ Infanterie-Regiment 188 = 12th Company/ 188th Infantry Regiment
Lexikon der Wehrmacht

Both disc look ok.

**Gunny Hartmann** · 09-07-2013, 08:34 PM

Yup both look honest!....

**Eike41** · 09-08-2013, 04:26 AM

They look super to me. Known units and pretty good shape. Interesting blood group stamp on Infantry regiment 188 tag.

**Boski Roman** · 09-08-2013, 07:53 AM

Thank you very much

Regards

**Matt L** · 09-09-2013, 02:23 PM

They look perfectly fine, but isn't anyone at all curious why the second one's unit is Infanterie-Regiment 188a? That's not a blood group mark, and I can't say I've ever seen a field unit with multiple 'versions' where there's an x and an x'a'. Even re-created units, after the first one was destroyed, just got the same designation- not an 'a' or anything. And the Grenadier unit's roll number is strangely high- solders at this time would have Ersatz-Bataillon discs, not field unit ones, and apparently field units only usually issued discs themselves as replacements for ones lost; 60+ is a lot of men to have lost discs in just one single Kompanie. There are some exceptions, but nothing about this unit's history suggests anything mitigating at all. It's odd to be sure...

**Eike41** · 09-09-2013, 04:37 PM

Matt,

I just thought the "a" was the blood group I cannot think of any other reason for it.

So how does a replacement disk relate to the roll number Matt? If I am roll number 63 and I lose my disk do I change roll number to #2 if that is the second replacement disk issued for the company? Or is there some sort of lookup table in between? I just want to clarify my understanding of the relationship.