Holland 1940-1945

[Admiraal]

Come on guys, there is a PM function for this kind of crap.
A mod should remove all of the above off-topic posts.

Great Soldbuch mtdr

[Erwin L]

Hello Aram.

Your welcome. I'm glad i could help you. Like i said before it is a nice extra bonus and probably a lot of people had overlook it. Good luck with researching it further.

Thank you for sharing it. Here another wp from my collection from a soldier who also participated in Market Garden to keep this thread on track. Only different areathen Arnheim

regards

Erwin

[Erwin L]

Lee

Very nice soldbuch from Gren. Regt. 1034. I got one from Gren Regt. 1035 and was wounded a few days later as yours. Both soldiers most probably got wounded in the Den Bosch area

Regards

Erwin

[Lee Luke]

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Picture of 59th Inf Div soldbuch Goertz on request

[patrick h]

Nice soldbuch!

[Panzer Rob]

In september 1944 Friedrich was again based in Ede near Arnhem.
At that time he was part of the 7 (Stamm) Kompanie SS - Grenadier Ausbildungs und Ersatz Battalion 4 under command of Walter Mattsuch. (RKT 5-1945)

This unit was based in the Simon Stevens Kazerne just besides the Ginkel Heath. When at 17 september 1944 the 1 British Airborne Division landed at the Ginkel Heath his unit was one of the first units to came into actions against the Airbornes. South of the Ede - Arnhem road they made a defence line.

Great Soldbuch, Floris!

Congrats and thanks for sharing it with us.

Rob

Rob

[hennep11]

I love it.

[dennisb]

Incredible Soldbuch Floris, thanks for sharing!

[Lee Luke]

Love that Polizei soldbuch !

[Erwin L]

Hey Floris,

Very nice soldbuch with a bottle of Arnheim connection. Thanks for additional info and maps. Pleasure to read this contribution.

Regards

Erwin

[5thFallschirm.]

Nice catch Floris,

[mtdr]

Nice Soldbuch Floris, even so nice the information/story you researched supported by the maps and photo's!

[Erwin L]

Hello Gents

Here another addition to my Luftwaffen-Jäger-Btl. z.b.V. 6 collection for the Holland 1944 thread. I have made a compilation from some parts of the soldbuch. First i want to thank Frederic for offering me this soldbuch. Thanks a lot. I really appreciate it

The soldbuch belonged to Alois R. Born on 3 Augustus 1923. He was promoted to Obergefreiter on 1 september 1944, while he was serving in 1/Luftwaffen-Jäger-Btl. z.b.V. 6. He came to this unit on 13 March 1943. On 23 March 1944 he got a Verwundeten Abzeichen in Schwarz. Luftwaffen-Jäger-Btl. z.b.V. 6 arrived in Holland near the Belgium border around 11 september 1944, just before for the start of Operation Market Garden and were part of Kampfgruppe Walther.

In the morning of 14 september 1944 they made a counter attack with fallschirm regiment 6 to recapture Joe's Bridge. This Bridge was captured by the Irish Guards on 11 september 1944. The counter attack was supported by StuG from S/Pz.Jag. Abt 559. The recapture failed. Luftwaffen-Jäger-Btl. z.b.V. 6 had some casualties due to this attack and a few soldiers were taken prisoner.

On 16 september the air was clear enough, so air attacks were made on the positions of the Germans as preparations for what would be come next day. At the same moment the artillery fire increased. The sector from Luftwaffen-Jäger-Btl. z.b.V. 6 came under heavy artillery fire and the commander Veith and his Adjudant Herbeck were both killed this day. Luftwaffen-Jäger-Btl. z.b.V. 6 suffered a lot of casualties. Hauptmann Wehking took over the command. He was originally the commander of the first Kompanie in which Alois served.

Alois arrived in the Sassandorf Reserve Lazerette on 18 september 1944 while he had injuries as a result of enemy fire (code 31?). He stayed in the hospital till 22 september and from 23 september till 2 oktober 1944 he had a Genesungsurlaub. After this he was sent to his unit again when they were still fighting in Holland.

My guess is that he was wounded during the counter attack on Joe's Bridge or during the Artillery bombardment. I don't think he got wounded on 17 september 1944 because he arrived in a German Hospital on 18 september.

The soldbuch is well filled in and complete and the condition is well used. For me it's very interesting that he got wounded before 18 september.

Regards

Erwin

[Panzer Rob]

Hello Gents

Here another addition to my Luftwaffen-Jäger-Btl. z.b.V. 6 collection for the Holland 1944 thread. I have made a compilation from some parts of the soldbuch. First i want to thank Frederic for offering me this soldbuch. Thanks a lot. I really appreciate it

The soldbuch belonged to Alois R. Born on 3 Augustus 1923. He was promoted to Obergefreiter on 1 september 1944, while he was serving in 1/Luftwaffen-Jäger-Btl. z.b.V. 6. He came to this unit on 13 March 1943. On 23 March 1944 he got a Verwundeten Abzeichen in Schwarz. Luftwaffen-Jäger-Btl. z.b.V. 6 arrived in Holland near the Belgium border around 11 september 1944, just before for the start of Operation Market Garden and were part of Kampfgruppe Walther.

In the morning of 14 september 1944 they made a counter attack with fallschirm regiment 6 to recapture Joe's Bridge. This Bridge was captured by the Irish Guards on 11 september 1944. The counter attack was supported by StuG from S/Pz.Jag. Abt 559. The recapture failed. Luftwaffen-Jäger-Btl. z.b.V. 6 had some casualties due to this attack and a few soldiers were taken prisoner.

On 16 september the air was clear enough, so air attacks were made on the positions of the Germans as preparations for what would be come next day. At the same moment the artillery fire increased. The sector from Luftwaffen-Jäger-Btl. z.b.V. 6 came under heavy artillery fire and the commander Veith and his Adjudant Herbeck were both killed this day. Luftwaffen-Jäger-Btl. z.b.V. 6 suffered a lot of casualties. Hauptmann Wehking took over the command. He was originally the commander of the first Kompanie in which Alois served.

Alois arrived in the Sassandorf Reserve Lazerette on 18 september 1944 while he had injuries as a result of enemy fire (code 31?). He stayed in the hospital till 22 september and from 23 september till 2 oktober 1944 he had a Genesungsurlaub. After this he was sent to his unit again when they were still fighting in Holland.

My guess is that he was wounded during the counter attack on Joe's Bridge or during the Artillery bombardment. I don't think he got wounded on 17 september 1944 because he arrived in a German Hospital on 18 september.

The soldbuch is well filled in and complete and the condition is well used. For me it's very interesting that he got wounded before 18 september.

Regards

Erwin

Very nice Soldbuch, Erwin. Congrats on acquiring this one. The wound code looks like a 31a to me, indicating a gunshot wound. I think it's totally possible he was wounded in any one of the engagements you mentioned above but with a gunshot wound code you could probably rule out a shrapnel wound from artillery, although it really depends on whether or not the wound was assessed and entered correctly. I have seen wounds received in an aerial attack listed as 31d (the "correct" code), 31a and 31b (verified by additional information).

Without further documentation it's hard to identify the actual date a wound was received based only on the dates entered for when the soldier was admitted to the hospital because - depending on location/distance from the battlefield to the hospital as well as other circumstances it could have been hours or days since the wound(s) had actually been received. I did not check, but what is the distance to the hospital in Germany from where he was stationed/fighting in Holland?

My best guess based on the entries would be that he was wounded on Joe's Bridge.

Great book.
Rob

[dennisb]

Very interesting Soldbuch Erwin!
Together that is a nice collection of Soldbücher to men that all served in the same unit.

As said: it is very likely he was wounded in the days before Operation: Market Garden around Joe's Bridge. At the same time it is quite possible that he was wounded during Operation: Market Garden. The distance between the Valkenswaard area and Bad Sassendorf is about 215 kilometres. Depeding on whether there was a good connection through train to the German hospitals he could have been wounded at September 17th.