Hi,
I own a heer helmet with this inscription on leather: O. KL. E. Deumeland.
Deumeland don't seems to be a common name in Germany and I found, for example, only one E.Deumeland on the Volksbund database, one gefreiter Ernst DEUMELAND who died in a POW camp in Corte (Corsica) on january 5th 1945.Maybe the same soldier. According to the Voksbund datbase, "only" 11 men called Demeuland died during WW2, and most of them on the eastern front.
The helmet was never in a collection before and surfaced in august 2008 from an old doctor house near Gramat (France, Lot department: west south) and wonder since what can O.Kl stands for....
Here are some pics, thanks in advance for any info.
I own a heer helmet with this inscription on leather: O. KL. E. Deumeland.
Deumeland don't seems to be a common name in Germany and I found, for example, only one E.Deumeland on the Volksbund database, one gefreiter Ernst DEUMELAND who died in a POW camp in Corte (Corsica) on january 5th 1945.Maybe the same soldier. According to the Voksbund datbase, "only" 11 men called Demeuland died during WW2, and most of them on the eastern front.
The helmet was never in a collection before and surfaced in august 2008 from an old doctor house near Gramat (France, Lot department: west south) and wonder since what can O.Kl stands for....
Here are some pics, thanks in advance for any info.
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