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    Death In The Field

    Although inappropriately morbid for most of us, Fahrer Hans Asang of 1st Artillery Munitions Column/Bavarian Ersatz Division (little X over his head 4th from left) chose this macabre snapshot to write home to his sister in Munich: "...here's the burial of a comrade, otherwise not much new... regards to Papa and Mama..."

    Asang himself was wounded at least once-- I have another photo of him in his army issue pajamas with other wounded men-- and survived the war.
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    Yawning assembly line pits like the above were not what the "homefolks" usually got as memento mori-- here is the tidy garden-like grave of Ldst. Rekr. Alfred Meyer of 9./Res. Inft. Regt. 222. Unfortunately there is no date of death, and the online German War Graves site has dozens and dozens of Alfred Meyers-- no units at time of death to check against.
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      The chaplain, mourning comrades, and idle onlookers like Asang also usually didn't stick around for what came in between the two photos above--

      here is a graves registration squad (last half of 1918-- note silver Wound Badge) pausing in their work for a commemorative snapshot-- complete with stack of waiting pine boxes at left...

      and yes, that IS a dead, rigor mortis stiffened CAT on top of the coffins, about to be interred with whoever these soldiers were.
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        When the dirty work was done, the Brass came in and made it official.

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          Another view.

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            Interesting photos, thanks for posting them.
            Sebastián J. Bianchi

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