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I'm reading this again it looks more like: versetzt zum Kraft I Rekr. Dep. 2 f. St B 2 What does St B 2 stand for? ... or is it St P 2

Andy, The the commander of the Kraftfahr- units wanted 100 A7V tanks - I'm sure they trained enough crews and spares for those tanks - but by March it was clear they only get 30 A7V tanks. So, they sent the extra crews they trained back to their Garde units.

I think the machine gun and flamethrower training was part of preparing him for tank crew.

8. April 1918 2. M.GK. Garde-Reserve-Jaeger-Bataillon Mitgemachte Gefechte: 14. April 1918 - 24. April 1918 – Kämpfe and der Avre bei Montdidier und Noyon 25. April 1918 - 23. Mai 1918 – Kämpfe an der Ancre, Somme und Avre. 25. / 26. April 1918 – Schlacht bei Villers-Bretonneux 24. Mai 1918 - 9. Juni 1918 – Feldzug gegen Frankreich 9. Juni 1918 durch Artillerie Geschoss am Kopf schwer verwundet – zur San. Komp. 241 14. Juni, 1918 Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse verliehen

15. Januar 1918 1./Kraftf-Ers-Abtl. No. 1 Kraft I Rekr. Dep. 2 f. St. P. 2 6. Marz 1918 Kraftfahrer Buchmüller back to: 1./Ersatz M.G.K des Garde-Korps.

Sturm-Panzer-Kraftwagen-Abteilung 1. 1. März 1917 - 22. Oktober 1917 22. Oktober 1917, gemäss Verfügung des Kommandanten der Ersatz Maschinen Gewehr Truppen des Garde-Korps der Kraftfahr-Ersatz-Abteilung Schöneberg überwiesen.

Now it gets interesting: 1./Ersatz-Komp. 2.Garde-Pionier-Ersatz-Bataillon Vom 15. Januar bis zum 15. Februar 1917 als Flammenwerfer ausgebildet. (signed by Oberleutnant Lange from the Flammenwerfer) 15. Februar 1917 wieder zur 1. Ersatz-Maschinen-Gewehr-Kompagnie des Garde-Korps in Kallinchen bei Zossen in Marsch gesetzt.

Josef Buchmüller 177 cm tall geboren am 23. September, 1897 in Siegburg-Mülldorf Beruf: Fabrikarbeiter Buchmüller wurde am 3. August 1916 als Landsturm Rekrut ins Heer eingezogen. Er kam zum Rekruten-Depot - Ersatz-Bataillon - 1. Garde-Reserve-Regiment. 9. August, 1916 3. Kompagnie, Ersatz- Bataillon - 1. Garde-Reserve-Regiment 13. September 1916 4. Ersatz-Maschinen-Gewehr-Kompagnie des Garde-Korps http://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_09_2013/post-1062-0-13040300-1379849932.jpghttp://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_09_2013/post-1062-0-41758600-1379850001.jpghttp://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_09_2013/post-1062-0-94275700-1379850065.jpghttp://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_09_2013/post-1062-0-78485900-1379850257.jpg

You think I made this up ... don't you?

Grenadier Josef Buchmüller an 18 year old factory worker from Siegburg Prussia, was recruited into a Guard machine-gun company in August of 1916. After his basic training as a Grenadier and machine-gunner he volunteered for flamethrower training. On January 15, 1917 Grenadier Buchmüller was transferred to the 1st company of 2.Garde-Pionier-Ersatz-Bataillon for a one month training course as a flamethrower combat engineer. On February 15, 1917, after his successful training as a flamethrower operator he returned to the 1. Ersatz-Maschinen-Gewehr-Kompagnie des Garde-Korps. Now, two weeks later on March 1st he was transferred again for further training to the newly created Sturm-Panzer-Kraftwagen-Abteilung 1. On October 22, 1917 he went to the Kraftfahr-Ersatz-Abteilung in Schöneberg near Berlin. According to the entries in his Military Passport Kraftfahrer Buchmüller stayed with Kraftfahr-Esatz-Abteilung 1 until March 6, 1918 when he was transferred again back to his old unit the Ersatz M.G.K des Garde-Korps. From there he was sent to a frontline unit in France. In April 1918, Buchmüller, now a Jäger in the 2nd machine-gun company of the Garde-Reserve-Jäger-Bataillon, fought with the Garde Jäger at Montdidier and Noyon. On April 25 and 26 he fought as a machine gunner at the battle of Villers-Bretonneux next to his old tank unit the Sturm-Panzer-Kraftwagen-Abteilung 1. On June 9, 1918 his machine gun came under heavy artillery fire and he received a severe head wound. Josef Buchmüller was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class on June 14, 1918 He was released from hospital on July 23, 1918. On November 20, 1918 Josef was discharged from the Army. The war was over.

It's a Vesperbrett (lunch cutting board) K.U. 1867 could stand for Königs-Ulanen incidently the 1. Hanovarian Ulanen Regiment was named Königs-Ulanen-Regiment in 1867:

... good for you

Ha Ha! they gave me the old .... I will start a new thread on the Pass when I have it all scanned and read. Garde-Grenadier trained in a machine-gun unit then send to the Garde-Pioniere for Flammenwerfer training then transferred to the Sturm-Panzer-Kraftwagen-Abteilung 1. !!!!!

Chris, Chris, Chris, Chris, .... here is a teaser

... sorry, have to wait for "the man", mailman that is. ... and, to quote Velvet Underground, ... "he's never early, he's always late ... first thing you learn - you always got to wait"

Payback time, my friend, for all the unnecessary suspense you put me through over the years.

... yes, Rick, you and Robin.

... hopefully, mine too!

... me too

Is that him? Paul Oskar Robert Weller born December 22, 1869 in Königsberg, East Prussia, - died in 1940 in Biebrich, Hessen.

Awards: E.M., M.E.II. (Militär-Ehrenzeichen II.), Südwestafrika-Denkmünze aus bronze, L.D.II (Landwehr Dienstauszeichnung II)

Knochenleim

On September 29, the day of general battle along the line, the Thirty-third Division (Pinney) and the Twenty-first (Campbell) attacked at half-past three in the morning, advancing upon the Hindenburg Line on the front Honnecourt—Bantouzelle, while the Welsh Division operated to the north of that point. There was some progress at first and Villers-Guislain was occupied, but the enemy was strong and aggressive, so that the advance was first held and then forced back to its starting-point. It was not a successful day, and there seemed no choice but to settle down and subject these powerful lines to a renewed bombardment. from: - The Great War - The British Campaign in France and Flanders, Vol. VI by Arthur Conan Doyle ... meanwhile, east of Villers-Guislain: Back of photo reads: Observer bunker on Sun Hill east of Villers Guislain, September 29, 1918

Your man was an NCO he was killed in action in June 1944

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