WWI German Research

[Doggert Dog]

Hi,

I've got some German dog tags from WWI I'd like to get researched, but I don't know where to go besides the casualty books. I think one of the tags is to a KIA.

Can anyone lead me in the right direction on how to go further? I've spent hours looking for answers but have gone nowhere.

Thanks

[morel5000]

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=743900

check here

[Doggert Dog]

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=743900

check here

Thanks for the link. I have gotten to that pint already though. I have one veteran I know is in fact on there, but don't know how to research from there.

[Doggert Dog]

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=743900

check here

Do you at least know how to translate these? I know my guy is on there because it's the same birth date but it says "(cross) in ????" And I'm not sure what that means.

And how could he have been a casualty in December 1918? Delayed in book?

See link.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/8492948

Thanks for the help.

[Gerdan]

He ist lited in that way " + in Gef.(angenschaft)" - died in captivity (as POW).

So it was normal that in December 1918 Germans were still POWs.

Gerdan

[Gerdan]

You guy is also listed in the Volksbund list. So you know where he is buried in France. The cemetery Troyon should bei not too far away from the POW camp in which he died.

Otto Brachmüller

Otto Brachmüller ruht auf der Kriegsgräberstätte in Troyon.
Endgrablage: Block 7 Grab 24

Nachname: Brachmüller
Vorname: Otto
Dienstgrad: Unteroffizier
Todes-/Vermisstendatum: 28.09.1918


Gerdan

[Gerdan]

Troyon

Département Meuse (Vaux-lès-Palameix), 5590 deutsche Kriegstote, Erster Weltkrieg

Der deutsche Soldatenfriedhof Troyon wurde von den französischen Militärbehörden nach dem Ende des Ersten Weltkrieges als Sammelfriedhof angelegt. Hier fanden Gefallene und in Lazaretten Verstorbene aus dem Gebiet zwischen Combres und St. Mihiel, sowie der Maashöhen, ihre letzte Ruhestätte.


From the Volkbund home page.

Gerdan

[Doggert Dog]

Wow, that is some great info, thanks!

So would he have died or been captured on September 28, 1918?

And would he probably have died of wounds or died of disease in captivity?

[Gerdan]

He could have been captured some days or weeks before September 28, 1918 because the date Sept 28 was transmitted later from the French Red Cross to the German Army HQ or Red Cross as date of his death. So he ist listed in the German "Verlustliste" (list of KIA or WIA German soldiers).

We do not know the intensity of his wounds and how long he was POW.

Gerdan

[Doggert Dog]

He could have been captured some days or weeks before September 28, 1918 because the date Sept 28 was transmitted later from the French Red Cross to the German Army HQ or Red Cross as date of his death. So he ist listed in the German "Verlustliste" (list of KIA or WIA German soldiers).

We do not know the intensity of his wounds and how long he was POW.

Gerdan

Ah ok. So do we know if this was a result of combat wounds or disease?

[Gerdan]

Sorry, no we do not. We only know the result: finally he was dead.

Gerdan

[Doggert Dog]

Sorry, no we do not. We only know the result: finally he was dead.

Gerdan

I thought that was the case. But this is more than I could ask for so thanks so much for the help.