Chris Boonzaier Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 A number of Years ago I advanced the theory that the official order to issue Preliminary EK docs came at the beginning of 1916, anything done up until then was at unit initiative. My theory was that like after the 1870 war, post war official documents were planned This was based on the observation of many hundreds of documents and issue dates and the order in 1918 that all documents handed out to date were now to be considered the official document. This was poo pooed as there was no proof... then Wernitz published the order from 1916 saying that units should issue preliminary documents.... So my theory was confirmed... Now this!!!! I think it is the missing link.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeheld Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 Nice find and very interesting! thanks for sharing regards seeheld Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dansson Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 Very cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uffz. Rohleder Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 On 31/01/2018 at 16:12, Chris Boonzaier said: A number of Years ago I advanced the theory that the official order to issue Preliminary EK docs came at the beginning of 1916, anything done up until then was at unit initiative. My theory was that like after the 1870 war, post war official documents were planned This was based on the observation of many hundreds of documents and issue dates and the order in 1918 that all documents handed out to date were now to be considered the official document. This was poo pooed as there was no proof... then Wernitz published the order from 1916 saying that units should issue preliminary documents.... So my theory was confirmed... Now this!!!! I think it is the missing link.... I have a Besitz Zeugnis dated 15. November 1916 the document was issued "im Felde". So I don't think that every unit was aware of the official order - or they ignored it. Sorry for the bad quality it's already dark here and the light isn't very helpful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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