post your Graves photos

[karlo]

nice last set....id guess at 1935/36

[Schnitzler]

Hi John,

you will find 1690 entries Meiners in the recent German phone book! The name is very common in Germany.

Gerdan

Zum Gedenken
S3016080
Nachname: Meinders (!!??)
Vorname: Hans
Dienstgrad: Unteroffizier
Geburtsdatum: 28.08.1916
Geburtsort: Tossens-Wesermarsch
Todes-/Vermisstendatum: 01.09.1939
Todes-/Vermisstenort: Przystajn
Hans Meinders wurde noch nicht auf einen vom Volksbund errichteten Soldatenfriedhof überführt oder konnte im Rahmen unserer Umbettungsarbeiten nicht geborgen werden. Nach den uns vorliegenden Informationen befindet sich sein Grab derzeit noch an folgendem Ort:


Bodzanowice - Polen


mfg
Ralf

[Gerdan]

Ralf

if you read the name exactly in the way it is written on the wooden cross it is "Meiners" without any doubts and not "Mein[COLOR="red"]d[/COLOR]ers".

But if you take his rank "Uffz" and the date of his KIA which is the 1 Sep 1939 as it is written on the back of the photo you could have found the right guy.

Or the name on the cross is misspelled or the name in the Volksbund list is not correct.
But we do not know.

Gerdan

[lieproo]

[lieproo]

[Gerdan]

# 529

Uffz Willi Prior
born 28.04.1918
KIA 1. 7. 1940

now: cemetery Dagneux/France Block 36, grave 180

Gerdan

[StuGIII]

Meiners

Hi Ralf, Gerdan,

It looks like Ralf found the right man, however as Gerdan states, we'll never know for sure. You would think the men who laid him to rest would know how he spelled his last name as they were more than likely the men who served with him. So maybe the Volksbund misspelled the name, since the other information Ralf found seems to match what we know, that is rank and date of death are correct. Sad he turned 23 just 4 days before being killed.

John

[lieproo]

[Brendan Hunt]

Hi Ralf, Gerdan,

It looks like Ralf found the right man, however as Gerdan states, we'll never know for sure. You would think the men who laid him to rest would know how he spelled his last name as they were more than likely the men who served with him. So maybe the Volksbund misspelled the name, since the other information Ralf found seems to match what we know, that is rank and date of death are correct. Sad he turned 23 just 4 days before being killed.

John

You never know. The Volksbund can be unpredictable sometimes. I was searching for a man, and was focusing all of my research on what I thought was his information on their site (same name), but it turns out in like March of 2008 they found the actual soldier's grave (in a Gulag) so I had to start all over again...

[Gerdan]

# 533

Ernst Schmid, born 25 June 1925 - KIA 6 June 1944 is burried in Greece

cemetry Dionyssos-Rapendozo, vault 2, Row 2, plate 7

Gerdan

[Schnitzler]

527

[StuGIII]

Hans Meiners

Hi,

Thanks for posting Hans' death card. It clears up the spelling of his last name.

John

[hucks216]

I posted these two photos in a seperate thread a while ago so here they are again, in the relevant place...

Two grave photos of Spanish fighter pilots of JG 51...

[hucks216]

Pic 2...

[StuGIII]

Artillery Obergefreiter's grave

Here's a nice grave photo. Can anyone find out about this man?