douglynn Posted January 10, 2006 Author Posted January 10, 2006 was he at kiel as flakk gunner few pics
Simon Orchard Posted January 11, 2006 Posted January 11, 2006 (edited) was he at kiel as flakk gunnerCan't tell from that page Doug, just that he was Marine Artillerie. Any unit's or FP number's elsewhere in the book? Edited January 11, 2006 by Simon Orchard
douglynn Posted January 11, 2006 Author Posted January 11, 2006 cant find any fpn every single one is blacked out????looks like he never left the marinesshule wilhelmhaven and husum he did get to pay scale 13???
Simon Orchard Posted January 11, 2006 Posted January 11, 2006 (edited) Looks like basic training, then out to the 2 battery of MFA 232 which was in the wilhelmshaven area and then in '45 in for what seems to be officers training.One entry i haven't seen thus far though. Under religion it says gottgl. what would that be? Edited January 11, 2006 by Simon Orchard
David Gregory Posted January 11, 2006 Posted January 11, 2006 Looks like basic training, then out to the 2 battery of MFA 232 which was in the wilhelmshaven area and then in '45 in for what seems to be officers training.One entry i haven't seen thus far though. Under religion it says gottgl. what would that be?Doug,You have a nice little group. I find it interesting that a man from land-locked Bavaria spent the entire war with a navy unit in the Wilhelmshaven area. I spent a year at the university in W?rzburg, which is a beautiful city. By a coincidence, I recently received a complete WW1 document group of awards, award documents, Milit?rpass and Soldbuch to a Bavarian who served with naval artillery units in the north of Germany, the Somme and FlandersSimon,gottgl. is an abbreviation for gottgl?ubig, which he meas that he believed in God, but didn't commit himself to a particular religious demonination.David
douglynn Posted January 11, 2006 Author Posted January 11, 2006 Doug,You have a nice little group. I find it interesting that a man from land-locked Bavaria spent the entire war with a navy unit in the Wilhelmshaven area. I spent a year at the university in W?rzburg, which is a beautiful city. By a coincidence, I recently received a complete WW1 document group of awards, award documents, Milit?rpass and Soldbuch to a Bavarian who served with naval artillery units in the north of Germany, the Somme and FlandersSimon,gottgl. is an abbreviation for gottgl?ubig, which he meas that he believed in God, but didn't commit himself to a particular religious demonination.David you beat me to it davidReligion Usually abbreviated. ev. (Evangelical-Lutheran), r. kath or kath. (Roman Catholic, ggl. (Gottglaubig-beliver in God), or % for atheist. Gef. Schnakenberg was a Lutheran.
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