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Generalleutnant Hermann Ritter von Speck Born: 08 Aug 1888 Died: 15 Jun 1940 - Killed in action in France Kdr 33.Infanterie-Division RK: 17 Oct 1940 (Posthumous)

Otto Christian Wamboldt Born: 29 May 1884 Died: 01 Apr 1945 - committed suicide with his wife Oberbürgermeister Darmstadt

Major Othmar Matzke Born: 30 Mar 1914 Died: 16 Jan 1999 Kdr Pionier-Btl 211 Abt II Kampfkommandant Regensburg RK: 18 Nov 1944

You have posted it in the correct thread. And thank you for the contribution.

Generaloberst Johannes Albrecht Blaskowitz Born: 10 Jul 1883 Died: 05 Feb 1948 Oberbefehlshaber Heeresgruppen-Kommando 3 Oberbefehlshaber 8.Armee Oberbefehlshaber 1.Armee Oberbefehlshaber Heeresgruppe G Oberbefehlshaber Heeresgruppe H RK: 30 Sep 1939 EL: 28 Oct 1944 Schw: 25 Jan 1945

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Hauptmann Karl-Friedrich Müller Born: 12 May 1920 12./LG-1 1./LG-1 Staffelkapitän 10./LG-1 DKiG: 06 Sep 1943 Ehrenpokal: 12 Oct 1942

Major Eugen Bilharz Born: 06 Aug 1886 Died: 08 Dec 1963 Highest rank reached: Generalmajor Feldzeugkommando III Feldzeugkommando II Kdr Feldkommandantur 996 (Thanks to Dave Danner for identifying the signature)

Thanks for that Dave. I don't think I would of got that in a million years, especially with just the signature to go on.

Can anyone help me in identifying this signature please - dated for April 1933 with the rank of Major and Kommandeur of II/Inf.Rgt 14.

Hauptmann Joachim Helbig Born: 10 Sep 1915 Died: 05 Oct 1985 Highest rank reached: Oberst II(K)/LG-1 4./LG-1 Staffelkapitän 4./LG-1 Kdr I/LG-1 Stab General der Kampfflieger General der Kampfflieger und Inspektor RLM (provisional) Kommodore LG-1 RK: 24 Nov 1940 EL: 16 Jan 1942 Schw: 28 Sep 1942

Hauptmann Iro Ilk Born: 18 Oct 1919 Died: 25 Sep 1944 - KIA Highest rank reached: Major LKS 10 3./LG-1 2./LG-1 Staffelkapitän 2./LG-1 Staffelkapitän 10./LG-1 JG-300 Kdr III/JG-300 Stab I/JG-300 Stab III/JG-300 Kills - 9 or 10 (incl 5 night) RK: 21 Oct 1942 DKiG: 02 Apr 1942 Ehrenpokal: 23 Aug 1943 Information Source: Luftwaffe Officer Career Summaries by Larry deZeng & Douglas Stankey

Based purely on the initials (I'm no good at recognising faces) it could be Hans-Georg Borck who won the RK on 23rd November 1943 in 3./Pz.Pi.Btl 209 of 11.Pz.Division. He won the DKiG with the same unit in March 1943. The Waffenfarbe in the photo does look black which would fit with a Pionier unit.

Hauptmann Ernst-Wilhelm Ihrig Born: 27 Jul 1915 Died: MIA 30 Nov 1942 on mission to Rzhev Salient II/KG-3 Staffelkapitän 3./KG-3 Kdr II/KG-3 RK: 14 Aug 1941

Major Pius Hodapp Born: 01 Jul 1907 Died: 20 Nov 1942 - KIA at Rzhev Kp-Chef 10/Inf.Rgt 35 Inf.Rgt 195 Kdr II/Inf.Rgt 195 DKiG: 14 Feb 1942

That would make more sense.

Is there any chance of a higher resolution scan of just the cuff title area? Can't say I've seen one like that - is it ST, SG or GG and then -P.....?

You see all sorts of notes, letters and documents from time to time, it's nothing unusual and just depends on what has been part of the group and has been put together either by the family or a previous collector.

His name looks like Heinrich Coutier. The initial on the front cover of the Wehrpass will confirm if his surname starts with a C or G but it looks like a C to me.

Einsatz Osten, Nordabschnitt Einsatz Kampfraum Aachen (Rgt Trier)

Last 6 sections of page 12: 1) Gren.Ers.u.A.Btl 120 (Grenadier-Ersatz und Ausbildungs-Bataillon 120) 2) Alarm-Regiment Tried 3) abbreviations as per #1 4) Marsch-Kompanie and then abbreviations as per #1 5) 6./Grenadier-Regiment von H____ (Stellungs-Kampfgruppe XII/1) 6) 6./Grenadier-Regiment 73 As for his name, can you also show his signature on page 2, his parents names on page 3 and his signature on page 1. It can all help.

Not sure if this is of much help but it is his Kartei as held at NARA and has a couple of evaluations on it. No idea about the recordings though:

Major Hans-Detlev Chrapkowski Born: 29 Oct 1911 Kp-Chef 2./Sturm.Pi.Btl 43 Kdr Pi.Btl Grossdeutschland DKiG: 28 May 1944

Please feel free to start a separate thread on the topic - it will be interesting to see the scale and scope of foreign weapons issued. Thanks for the extra additions to this thread - Oflag IIC seems to have a fair bit of information on the internet including a list of 6,000 Polish PoW's and information on a prisoner Olympics in 1944.

Good point, you do tend to see a wide variety of foreign weapons. The naval guard in my original post was issued a Bulgarian rifle (possibly a Mannlicher M1895):