4.kp/marsch.btl 63 Afrika

[Radcollector]

Hello,

does anyone have any info on 4.kp/marsch.btl.63 afrika?i have checked tessins with no luck and i cant find any info on lexicon,any help will be appreciated.

[Ian Jewison]

Yancy,

You might be lucky and find it in a reference specifically on units in Africa and/or may be on the web somewhere but it was a short lived transfer Battalion shipping troops to Africa. On arrival these units were disbanded.

Regards,
Ian

[Radcollector]

thanks for the info Ian!

[milcollector]

Here is a link to an entry for 5th company of the same Marsch batallion
http://www.bphprint.co.nz/units.jpg

This Marsch Batallion was one of the very last Afrika Marsch Batallion. I know for a fact that 5th company did not make it to Tunisia, and I suspect the same would be true for 4th Company.

The unit was in existance right at the end of the campaign in Tunisia. By the time it was ready for departure by Ju52 across to Tunisia, the German forces had begun to capitulate so the transfer was cancelled. The troops were split up and diverted to units in Italy and Sicily.
As you can see the man in the link above was diverted to Panzer Grenadier Regiment Fullriede on Sicily where he was killed shortly after in the fighting after the invasion of Sicily.

Afrika Marsch batallions were mixed units - i.e the soldiers within them, upon landing in Afrika, could all be allocated to a wide range of different field units.

If you have a wehrpass or soldbuch to this unit, then I am afraid that the chances of him having made it to afrika are very, very slim.

[Radcollector]

Hello,

thanks for the added info,im not concerned about his lack of afrika service,i bought the WP because the man later fought in Sicily and Italy (nettuno and cassino),he was in this unit for 4 months.