Medical Codes

[Mike C]

Hello All,

Am sure this has been discussed elsewhere but have soldbuchs with "13", "24", "25", "31" and "31b" medical entries. Any thoughts on what these are? Thanks,

Mike

[Angel Farré]

13=Gonorrhea, something that nobody don't want to tell to his wife.
24=Non veneral illness
25=Skin illness
31=Injures due enemy action
31b=grenade splitters

Anything more?

Cheers

Angel

[Mike C]

Hello Angel,

Thank you for the information - just recently acquired a small group of W-SS soldbuchs. The poor chap with the "13" was an SS-Sturmmann with the 10th SS Panzer Division (Frundsberg); the last soldbuch entry was in July 1944 so I suspect he was a casualty in Normandy. The 31b was for a SS-Sturmmann with the 12th SS Panzer Division (Hitlerjugend); service in Normandy and the Ardennes - wounded on 8 January 1945 and still in hospital at war's end. The 21/24 and 31 were for a SS-Funker with the 17th SS Panzer-Grenadier Division (GvB).

All the best,

Mike

[Angel Farré]

Mike, can you say me if they won any award? I'm very interested in the "GvB" one as I have a friend who only collects a handfull of units and the sole Waffen SS is this.

Cheers

Angel

[Mike C]

Hello Angel,

The Funker was with with the Stab of I/38th W-SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment - and also with SS-Bataillon Berg(?). Wounded (31b) on 12 July 44, 6 August 44 and 4 September 44 - seem to be three separate wounds. Ony decoration seems to have been the Black Wound Badge on 15 September 44.

Still learning to decypher German script - so may have missed something. The soldbuch came with a cut-down 16 cm long GvB cufftitle.

Thanks again for your help.

Mike

[Angel Farré]

Mike, probably your soldier only suffered one wound, but in the Soldbuch are registrated his transfers beetwen hospitals, look at the right page and you find the date of release from the hospital and, probably, it was the same date as he entered the other or a couple latter if transfered from frontline hospitals to the rear or the homeland, post here the page and I translate what happen. Look at the one I post here, comes from the Soldbuch of Unteroffizier Wilhelm Kiesswetter from 5./Panzerkorps Füsilier Regiment Grossdeutschland, his wound was around December 12th, 1.942 (Soldbuch shows dates of arrive at and leave from hospitals not actually the date of the wound) and was admited in Reserve-Lazarett IX, released to a Lazarett Zug in December 23rd, 1.942 and admited in Reserve-Lazarett Ellingen a.d. Eger on January 15th, 1.943 only to be moved on March 12th, 1.943 to Reserve Lazarett IV Karlsbad where arrives one day latter on March 13th and was finally released on June 4th 1.943 and sent to the front after a leave that ended on July 9th, 1.943. For the actions where he sustained this wound he received the EK II on December 20th, 1.942, the Black Wound Badge on February 1st, 1.943 and the Infantry Assault Badge in bronze on April 2nd 1.943.

Cheers

Angel

[Mike C]

Hello Angel,

You are absolutely right - one wound with initial entry to "Kreigslaz. XXXX [number? is indistinguishable) on 17 July and (three hospitals later) he is released from "Reserve-Laz. Aachen" on 8 September. On 13 September he is issued a 98K.....back to the front!

Thanks,

Mike

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