ID tag opinion please

[Jokka]

Just got this at EBAY.
Is it real or fake ? (nice to know before I pay)

It's from 7'th Border Infanterie Regiment 124 ???

[Ostbat]

Its Ok
7 Kompanie Grenz-Infanterie-Regiment 124

[Jokka]

Great, thanks, took a chance on this one :-)

[Jokka]

Its Ok
7 Kompanie Grenz-Infanterie-Regiment 124

Are you the seller BTW ?
Seller is from Kiev

[Frontalschaden]

Hello

It`s a good dogtag an a good unit...

A Tscherkassy pocket unit.


MfG Fronti

[Jokka]

Hello

It`s a good dogtag an a good unit...

A Tscherkassy pocket unit.


MfG Fronti

It was a part of 72. Infantry division ?

[Matt L]

Looks unissued or only worn for a very short time. The unit had an Ersatz-Bataillon, so it seems likely to me that if it were issued that it'd have been so before or right at the beginning of the war. The serial number, however might be a little high for that, so my guess is that it's a 'stock' replacement that was simply never issued.

Here's the unit information:

Grenz-Infanterie-Regiment 124

1. Aufstellung:
* 10.11.1938, Friedensstandort Trier (III. erst bei Mobilmachung), Wehrkreis XII; Infanterie-
Regiment 124 seit 19.9.1940; 23.10.1940 Abgabe des III. als I./Infanterie-Regiment 698 an die 342.
Infanterie-Division (14. Welle); wurde ersetzt; 15.5.1942 Stab III. und 9. Kompanie zur Aufstellung
Radfahrabteilung 72 verwandt und ersetzt; Grenadier-Regiment 124 seit 15.10.1942; 10.11.1942 das
III. Bataillon aufgelöst; 2.3.1944 nach Ausbruch aus dem Kessel von Tscherkassy in
Hrubieszow/Generalgouvernement aufgefrischt (aus der Division Generalgouvernement).

2. Gliederung:
1939 I. 1-4, II. 5-8, III. 9-12, 13, 14
1942 I. 1-4, II. 5-8, 13, 14

3. Unterstellung:
Im Frieden Grenzkommandantur Trier;
Mobilmachung Grenzdivision Trier 72. Infanterie-Division (19.9.1939):
1939 Trier
1940 Frankreich
1941 Rumänien, Nordgriechenland, August Südrußland, Krim
1942 Krim, August Mittelrußland (Rshew)
1943 Mittelrußland (Rshew, Orel), Oktober Südrußland
1944 Tscherkassy, nach Wiederaufstellung Lemberg, Baranow
1945 Schlesien

4. Ersatz:
124 Koblenz, Trier, Wehrkreis XII

[Frontalschaden]

The dogtag number is o.k.

The german army had no dogtags in the peace. At the beginning of the war, all members got a dogtag, the members of the Grenz infanterie Regiment 124, too. (They got Grz Inf Rgt 124 dogtags and no Ersatz dogtags) When the first soldiers are fallen, the replacement soldiers who join to the regiment, have replacement dogtags. (my dear... my bad english... sorry.)

So this number ist the 227th soldier ho got tag dogtag at the beginning of the war ! (Or later)

MfG Fronti

[Matt L]

Replacement soldiers who entered service once the war had started would wear discs from the Ersatz-Bataillon though Fronti- only those who were serving at the time the discs were issued would have received one marked with the field unit, and I would doubt that a single Kompanie had 227 men since the normal size isn't more than 150 or so. I understand that units kept replacement discs for those lost, and they were the same as those issued to serving troops- i.e. with the field unit information.

Or were things a little different right at the beginning and I just don't know about it?

[Ostbat]

Are you the seller BTW ?
Seller is from Kiev

Jokka,
No, I not BTW. I - Ostbat.

Regards,
Igor.

[Matt L]

Jokka,
No, I not BTW. I - Ostbat.

Regards,
Igor.

'BTW' stands for 'by the way' Ost