ID tags-Help with identification

[Hartigan]

Hi to all,

I recently acquired 3 dog tags and I would like some help in the identification of the units their owners belonged. So they have written on them:

10./I.R. 356

1.ERS. KP. JR. 85

3/JE BTL44


what do you think?

Best Regards
Marios

[Gerdan]

I think this could be a start for you research:

1) http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/...nter/IR356.htm
10 co

2) http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/...ter/IR85-R.htm
1 repl. co

3) http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/...ErsBat44-R.htm
3 co

Gerdan

[Hartigan]

Thanks a lot Gerdan! Great sources of info!
(although my German are ultra poor-thankfully there is google translator)

So I was wondering

10./I.R. 356 I guess I.R stands for Infanterie-Regiment 356 and 10 as you said is 10 company

1.ERS. KP. JR. 85 Here JR stands for.....Infanterie-Regiment 85? What could J be and how about the rest of the inscription ERS(?) KP(?)

3/JE BTL44 BTL 44 is Bataillon 44 but what about JE?

[Gerdan]

Marios

in the German language the capital letters "I" and "J" are very close together. So what you read "J" should be "I" - as Infanterie....

ERS - Ersatz - replacement and your "JE" should be "IE" - Enfanterie Ersatz ....


Gerdan

[Gerdan]

Sorry, I wanted to write "JE" should be "IE" - Infanterie Ersatz...

Gerdan

[Frontalschaden]

Hi to all,

I recently acquired 3 dog tags and I would like some help in the identification of the units their owners belonged.

Hello

The unit on the dogtag mustn`t the actual unit of the soldier. It is the unit which gave the dogtag to the soldier. After a transfer to another (new) unit, the soldier wore his old dogtag in the new unit, too.


Best regards, Fronti

[Hartigan]

Thank you very much for the useful info!!
I am not familiar with ID tags but they seem nice artifacts to do some detective work on them and try to find out about the people behind the objects (although I guess its quite difficult to pinpoint the exact owner).
Fronti-that makes sense cause these ones where allegedly found in Estonia and from the very superficial research I have done about these units not all where situated at the eastern front!

Thanks a lot!