"I once had a comrade". Photos of graves of German soldiers.

[Willmore]

Hello everyone.

I have managed to identify four members of 1./Kompanie Gebirgsjäger Regiment 98, 1. Gebirgs Division. The soldiers fell in Dubrowskoj, Ukraine during November 1941.






From left to right.

Name: Johann Strobl
Rank: Obergefreiter
Birth Date: 22 March 1915
Birth Place: Kelheim Niederbayern
Military Unit: 1./Kompanie Gebirgsjäger Regiment 98
Death Date: 6 November 1941
Death Place: Dubrowskoj

His cause of death is noted as Gefallen: Infanterie Geschuß Herz (Killed in action: Infantry shot heart)

I couldn't find a Volksbund entry for Johann.




Name: Franz Hopps
Rank: Obergefreiter
Birth Date: 16 May 1913
Birth Place: Drachenthal Obb
Military Unit: 1./Kompanie Gebirgsjäger Regiment 98
Death Date: 3 November 1941
Death Place: Dubrowskoj

His cause of death is noted as Gefallen: Pak Volltreffer (Killed in action: Anti tank gun, direct hit)

Franz Hopps has not yet been transferred to a military cemetery set up by the Volksbund.
According to the information available to us, his grave is currently in the following place: Dubrowskoje / Lugansk - Ukraine






Name: Thomas Fleischmann
Rank: Jäger
Birth Date: 5 May 1921
Birth Place: Gustenfelden Schwabach C Nürnberg
Military Unit: Military Unit: 1./Kompanie Gebirgsjäger Regiment 98
Death Date: 25 November 1941
Death Place: Dubrowskoj

His cause of death is noted as Gefallen: Infanterie Geschuß Kopf (Killed in action: Infanry shot head)

I couldn't find a Volksbund entry for Thomas.




Name: Gerhard Aurich
Rank: Gefreiter
Birth Date: 24 August 1919
Birth Place: Pleissa Sachsen
Military Unit: Military Unit: 1./Kompanie Gebirgsjäger Regiment 98
Death Date: 29 November 1941
Death Place: Dubrowskoj

His cause of death is noted as Gefallen: Infanterie Geschuß Herz (Killed in action: Infantry shot heart)

I couldn't find a Volksbund entry for Gerhard.






Here is a death card to a member of 2./Kompanie Gebirgsjäger Regiment 98, Alois Loibl who fell 1km east of Dubrowskoj on the 6th of November 1941.








Kind regards,

Will.

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Deutscher Friedhof Feodosia (Krim Feldzug)




132.ID Friedhof

The unique Moorish-style building is preserved today, it is called Vila Stamboli (a private mansion built in 1914)


Stamboli´s villa Feodosia

To remember the terrible story of some of the soldiers buried there, essential thread by TWS member Todd "A poignant grouping that tells a tragic story" in the Collections display section.

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Deutscher Friedhof in Weschki, next Wyazma







I was wondering who could be buried there and searching, searching, I found this



Krielow, Gemeinde Groß Kreutz (Havel), Landkreis Potsdam-Mittelmark, Brandenburg

Gedenktafel in the church

Unteroffizier Fritz HABEDANK
11.12.1912 Krielow - 20.03.1942 Ljadnoje - Kriegsgrab bei Weschki / Smolensk - Rußland

[Willmore]

Hi Santi.

I identified one soldier from the bottom cemetery photo in Feodosia.

Name: Josef Geiselbrechtinger
Rank: Gefreiter
Birth Date: 3 January 1911
Birth Place: Haüseck Erding/Obb
Military Unit: 11./Kompanie Infanterie Regiment 437
Death Date: 26 March 1942
Death Place: Daln-Kamyschi

His cause of death is noted as Gefallen: Artillerie Geschuß Kopf (Killed in action: Artillary shot head)







Here is a death card to as soldier who fell in Feodosia on the 29th of December 1941 during the Russian assault. He was buried in the same cemetery in grave number 58.





Post your death notices

Kind regards,

Will.

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Where do Joseph and Hubertus rest?


Infanterie Regiment 366



Obgfr Josef Schrage
13 I R 366
geb. 17.8.12 / gef. 10.9.42



Gefr Hubertus Johannknecht
8 I R 366
geb. 29.6.12 / gef. 9.9.42

[Willmore]

Hi Santi.

Here are the details for Josef and Hubertus.

Name: Josef Schrage
Rank: Obergefreiter
Birth Date: 17 August 1912
Birth Place: Olpl
Military Unit13./Kompanie Infanterie Regiment 366
Death Date: 10 September 1942
Death Place: Tsiejawina sudostw Schlüsselburg Tschornajaabscheitt

His cause of death is noted as Gefallen: Artilleire Geschuß (Killed inaction: Artillery shot)

I couldn't find a Volksbund entry for Josef, but the rear of the casualty card notes he was buried
in the Diivisional cemetery of the 227. Infanterie Division in Mga, Russia.





Name: Hubertus Johannknecht
Rank: Gefreiter
Birth Date: 29 August 1912
Birth Place: Güstersloh
Military Unit: 8./Kompanie Infanterie Regiment 366
Death Date: 9 September 1942
Death Place: Gontowaja-Lipka (Gentewaja Lipka on the Volksbund)

His cause of death is noted as Gefallen: Infanterie Geschuß Brust (Killed in action: Infantry shot chest)

Hubertus Johannknecht is buried in the military cemetery in Sologubowka, Russia.
Endgrablage: Block 2 Reihe 49 Grab 5439.



Kind regards,

Will.

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Thanks to Will's warning (who located them) we have been able to discover two new photographs of the tombs we talked about in posts #143 to #149.

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They are made before. It looks like summer. The wooden fence around the graves has not yet been built.



Behind the tombs there are some steel beams piled up, as if some type of work was going to be done in the bunkers. We see a German soldier in a dark uniform and next to him a civilian, both observing the bunkers damaged by the fighting.



Behind the three crosses there is a wooden plank that no longer appears in the photos taken in winter with the wooden fence around it.





In the first photo, the sun is high because the crosses cast their shadows on the plank placed at the head of the tombs. The men walking next to the bunker barely cast a shadow, it must be noon.

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Where Obergefreiter Fritz Karlscheuer (fallen on April 6, 1941) will be buried?



Perhaps the clue lies in discovering which army is the uniform of the soldier who is burying him. It doesn't seem easy....

[Willmore]

Hi Santi.

This looks like the correct information and you can see the name 'Fritz' has been crossed out on the casualty card (Fritz is often a shortened version of Friedrich). It appears that 'Fritz' died in Yugoslavia (Bulgaria), so I guess there could be a number of different countries the soldier with the spade could be from.

Name: Peter-Friedrich Kalscheuer
Rank: Obergefreiter
Birth Date: 21 June 1915
Birth Place: Hilden, North Rhine-Westphalia
Military Unit: 8./Batterie Flak Regtiment 24 (Mot)
Death Date: 7 April 1941
Death Place: Petritsch (Nevo Selo/ Yugoslavia on the Volksbund)

His cause of death is noted as im Lazarett verstorben: Artillerievolltreffer (Died in hospital: Direct artillery hit)



Peter Kalscheuer is buried in the military cemetery in Petric, Bulgaria.
Endgrablage: auf diesem Friedhof

Kind regards,

Will.