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KRAUSE GENEALOGY

FRIEDRICH WILHELM "WILLIE" KRAUSE
(January 18, 1897, Bischofswerda, Saxony, Germany - December 9, 1983, Leamington, Ontario, Canada)

FROM GERMANY TO THE WESTERN FRONT
TO THE EASTERN FRONT
TO TAURIDA AND MOLOTSCHNA (SOUTH RUSSIA)

1914 - 1921

See Also Western Front: Some Background Notes for Krause Road to South Russia

See Also Eastern Front - South Russia: Some Background Notes For Krause Road to South Russia

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At the outset of the First World War, every man in Germany between 17 and 45
years of age was required to perform his mandatory military service.

https://www.rtbf.be/ww1/topics/detail_who-are-the-german-soldiers?id=8356006

August 1, 1914. Germany Declares War on Russia.
August 3, 1914. Germany declares war on France.

http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/firstworldwar/index-1914.html

On August 1, 1914, Friedrich Wilhelm "Willie" Krause was c. 17 1/2 years old

Military Rank

IR 182 Friedrich Wilhelm Krause (Before November 24, 1914 - Post December 4, 1914)

Jäger Friedrich Wilhelm Krause (By October 1, 1915 - c. December 21, 1917/February 11, 1918)

IR 182 Soldat Friedrich Wilhelm Krause (c. December 21, 1917/February 11, 1918 - September 30, 1919)

IR 182 Gefreiter Friedrich Wilhelm Krause (As of September 30, 1919 - )

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INDEX

INTRODUCTION

FRIEDRICH WILHELM KRAUSE:
 
KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES 16 REGIMENT 182
AND
1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

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SOLDBUCH - PAYBOOK

[No.] 1036 Der Stammrolle 711

SERVICE INFORMATION

October 1, 1915 - September 30, 1916

Jäger Friedrich Wilhelm Krause
[No ] 1036 711
1. Ersatz-Bataillon * Jäger-Bataillon 12 [Jäger Bataillon 12]

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May 11, 1916

Tag des Eintritts in das stehende H[eer] 11. 5. 16 - Day of re-entry into the standing army 11.5.16

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October 1, 1916 - September 30, 1917

Jägers Wilhelm Krause
No 711
Jäger-Bataillon [No 12] [Jäger Bataillon 12]
3, Kompagnie
Königlich Sächsisch *  Jäger Bataillon

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April 1, 1917 - March 31, 1918

Jägers W. Krause
No 711 12107
Jäger-Bataillon No 12
3, Kompagnie
Königlich Sächsisch *  Jäger Bataillon 12

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October 1, 1917 - September 30, 1918

Jägers Wilhelm Krause
No 711
[Königlich Sächsisch] *  Jäger Bataillon 12
16. Infanterie-]Regt]ment Nr.182
[9, Ko]mpagnie

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October 1, 1918 - September 30, 1919

Soldat William Kraüse
der 9. / 182

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INSIDE COVER

A. Zum Feldheer abgejandt boll 1:) - Field army

1. Ersatzbataillon, I K. S. Jäger-Btl. 12 [Jäger Bataillon 12]
3. Fdf. Kompagnie
Nr. 1036 (der Kriegsstammrolle). - Personal Service Record Book

B. Feldtruppenteil 2): - B. Field Army unit 2):

Jäger Bataillon 12
3: Kompagnie
Nr. 711 (der Kriegsstammrolle). - Personal Service Record Book

C. Für den Buchinhaber jezt zustündiger Ersatztruppenteil 2): replacement/training unit

1. Ers. Batl.
1. Jäger Bat. No 12, [Jäger Batallion 12]
in Freiberg I. Sa. [That is: i. Sa. or im Sachsen]

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SOME STAMPS

* K. S. Linien-Kommandantur Kassenverwaltung

 

A. Zum Feldheer abgejandt boll 1:) - Field army

1. Ersatz-Bati.
16. Inf.-Regt. No. 182
1. Garn.-Komp.

[ I. Ersatz-Bataillon des Kgl. Sächs. 16. Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182 in Freiberg/Sachsen ]

Nr. 121OSZ (der Kriegsstammrolle).  - Personal Service Record Book

1. Ersat-Bataillon * Jäger-Bataillon 12 [Jäger Bataillon 12]

16. Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182
9 Kompagnie

1. [Ersatz-Bati.]
16. Inf.-Regt 182
1. Garn. Komp.

1. Ersatz-Batl.
16. Inf.- Regt. No. 182
1. Garn.-Komp

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KRAUSE SOLDBUCH - PAYBOOK

[1. Jäg]er-Batallion No. 12 3, Kompagnie.

1036 der Stammrolle

[?]1074
     

F W Krause Printed/Stamped Soldbuch Template

DATES ON THE PAGES

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NOVEMBER 24, 1914 - OCTOBER 20, 1918

     
    November 24, 1914 - December 4, 1914
     
24/11/1914 - 30/11/1914 1. Ersatz-Batl. 16. Inf.- Regt. No. 182 1. Garn.-Komp: On Leave (beurlaubt) from November 24, 1914 to November 30, 1914, Bischofswerda
02/12/1914 - 04-12/1914 1. Ersatz-Batl. 16. Inf.- Regt. No. 182 1. Garn.-Komp: Home - Furlough from December 2 to December 4, Bischofswerda and Freiwaldau
     
    May 11, 1916 - December 30, 1916
     
11/05/1916   Re-Entry
13/05/1916   Smallpox Shot
25/05/1916   Issued a Gas Mask, Size 3
31/05/1916   Typhoid Shot
07/06/1916   Typhoid Shot
19/06/1916   Typhoid Shot
30/06/1916   Cholera Shot
07/07/1916    
08/07/1916   Cholera Shot
22/08/1916 - 29/08/1916 Training
23/08/1916 - 28/08/1916 Training: Meals
29/08/1916   Training
30/12/1916   Typhoid Shot
     
    January 25, 1917 - December 31, 1917
     
25/01/1917   Cholera Shot
14/03/1917   Typhus Shot
20/04/1917   Hospital Activity: "Jäger Batallion 12", Company 3
22/04/1917   Hospital Activity
28/04/1917   Hospital Activity: Jäger Batallion 12, Company 3
30/04/1917   Hospital Activity
01/05/1917 - 20/05/1917 K. Reservelazarett Fürth : [Hospital] K. Reserve Hospital Fürth, From May 1, 1917 to May 20, 1917
15/05/1917   Hospital Activity: Jäger Batallion 12, Company 3 - Bischofswerda mentioned
14/08/1917   Hospital Activity
16/08/1917 - ?/08/1917 Hospital Activity
05/09/1917 - 12/09/1917 Hospital Activity
20/09/1917   Hospital Activity: Jäger Batallion 12, Company 3: Hospital, "St. Johannis", Freiberg, Sachsen
06/10/1917 - 07/10/1917 Hospital, "St. Johannis", Freiberg, Sachsen
12/10/1917   Hospital Activity: Hospital, "St. Johannis", Freiberg, Sachsen
20/10/1917   Hospital Activity
01/12/1917   Pay Issue
05/12/1917   Pay Issue
21/12/1917 31/12/1917 Hospital Activity: Auskunftsnebenstelle Kronstadt [Information Extension Kronstadt (Brasov) in Southern Transylvania?)]]
     
    February 11, 1918 - October 20, 1918
     
11/02/1918   16. Infantry, Regiment No. 182, 9 Company: In Braila, Rumania?
16/02/1918 - 24/02/1918 1. Ersatz-Batl. 16. Inf.- Regt. No. 182 1. Garn.-Komp: In Braila, Rumania
17/02/1918   16. Infantry, Regiment No. 182, 9 Company: In Braila, Rumania
28/02/1918   16. Infantry, Regiment No. 182, 9 Company: In Braila, Rumania?
21/03/1918   Cholera Shot
20/06/1918   Smallpox Shot (See image below for added detail)
22/08/1918   Cholera Shot (See image below for added detail)
27/08/1918   Ist Inhaber folgender Orden und Ehr zeichen (Holds the following medals and honor sign): E.K. II. [Iron Cross, 2nd Class]
30/08/1918   Ist Inhaber folgender Orden und Ehr zeichen (Holds the following medals and honor sign): Verw. Abz. in Schwarze [Wounded Badge In Black]
20/10/1918   Medical Batallion II, Infantry Regiment 182: Typhus Shot
     
   

UNKNOWN DATES
     
21/08/191?    
12/12/191?   vorschuss an ... für ... mit ... aus der Kasse der Lin. Kdtr K I [Linien-Kommandantur Kassenverwaltung] Erhalten. Munich (Money Advance from Headquarters)

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USED COUPONS

(IN THE ORDER FOUND IN THE BOOK: )

OCTOBER 1, 1915 - c. 10 DECEMBER 1918 [SEPTEMBER 30, 1919]

[Year: ?]

 

 April, Mai, Juni, Juli, August, September [?]
1915 Oktober, November, Dezember Kupons zu dem Soldbuch  1036 711 des jäger Friederich Wilhelm Krause für 1. Oktober 1915 bis Ende September 1916

1. Ersatz-Bataillon * Jäger-Bataillon 12 *
1916 Januar, Februar, März Kupons zu dem Soldbuch  1036 711 des jäger Friederich Wilhelm Krause für 1. Oktober 1915 bis Ende September 1916

1. Ersatz-Bataillon * Jäger-Bataillon 12 *
1916 Oktober, November, Dezember Kupons zu dem Soldbuch  No 711 des Jäger Wilhelm Krause für 1. Oktober 1916 bis Ende September 1917

1. Jäger-Batallion No. 12
3, Kompagnie.

1917 Januar, Februar, März Kupons zu dem Soldbuch  No 711 des Jäger Wilhelm Krause für 1. Oktober 1916 bis Ende September 1917

1. Jäger-Batallion No. 12
3, Kompagnie.

[1917] April, Mai, Juni, Juli, August, September [Kupons zu dem Soldbuch  No 711 des Jäger Wilhelm Krause für 1. Oktober 1916 bis Ende September 1917

1. Jäger-Batallion No. 12
3, Kompagnie. ]
[Year: ?] April, Mai, Juni, Juli, August, September 1. Jäger-Batallion No. 12
3, Kompagnie.
1917 Oktober, November, Dezember Kupons zu dem soldbuch  No 711 12107 des Jäger W. Krause für 1. April 1917 bis Ende März 1918

KÖNIGLICH  SÄCHSISCHES  * JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12 *

1. Jäger-Batallion No. 12
3, Kompagnie.
1918 Januar, Februar, März Kupons zu dem soldbuch  No 711 12107 des Jäger W. Krause für 1. April 1917 bis Ende März 1918

KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES  * JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12 *

1. Jäger-Batallion No. 12
3, Kompagnie.
1918

 

 Oktober, November, [1st third of] Dezember

Kupons zu dem soldbuch No  …….. des Soldat Wilhelm Krause der 9./182 für 1. Oktober 1918  bis Ende September 1919
1918 Dezember [2nd two-thirds unused]
1919 Januar, Februar, März, April, Mai, Juni, Juli, August, September Unused
1917 Oktober, November,  Decembre,  Kupons zu dem soldbuch        No des Jager Wilhelm Krause für 1. Oktober 1917 bis Ende September 1918

[1. Ersatz-Bataillon] * Jäger-Bataillon 12 *]
 
16. Infanterie-
[Regi]ment Nr. 182
[? Ko]mpagnie]
1918 Januar,  Februar   März Kupons zu dem soldbuch        No des Jager Wilhelm Krause für 1. Oktober 1917 bis Ende September 1918

[1. Ersatz-Bataillon] * Jäger-Bataillon 12 *]
 
16. Infanterie-
[Regi]ment Nr. 182
[? Ko]mpagnie]

12/12/191?

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UNKNOWN WORDS

August 20, 1918

August 22, 1918

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SIMILAR ON THE NET

For Sealing Letters

16. Königlich Sächsische Infanterie - Regiment No. 182

http://www.veikkos-archiv.com/index.php?title=Kategorie:Siegelmarken

(A)

HIS INFANTRY REGIMENT

AND

HIS ATTACHED JÄGER  BATTALION

KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES 16 REGIMENT 182
AND
1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12 SERVICE:
1914 - 1919

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HIS INFANTRY REGIMENT

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

Regimentsgeschichte; 16. Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Regimentsgeschichte-16-Infanterie-Regiment-
Nr-182-/391378097115?hash=item5b1ff3d3db:g:uKwAAOSwXshWsnLQ

SUMMARY OF KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES 16 REGIMENT 182 INFANTRY POSTINGS

  • 02.08.1914 - 31.03.1915: 2. (kgl.sächs.) Infanterie-Brigade Nr.46 / 1. kgl.sächs. Division Nr.23

  • 01.04.1915 - 15.06.1915: 245. Infanterie-Brigade / 123. Infanterie-Division

  • 15.06.1915 - 25.06.1915: 123. Infanterie-Division

  • 26.06.1915 - 10.07.1915: 245. Infanterie-Brigade / 117. Infanterie-Division

  • 11.07.1915 - 08.09.1916: 245. Infanterie-Brigade / 123. Infanterie-Division

  • 08.09.1916 - 22.04.1917: 177. Infanterie-Brigade / 216. Infanterie-Division

  • 22.04.1917 - 20.08.1917: 86. Reserve-Infanterie-Brigade / 216. Infanterie-Division

  • 21.08.1917 - 28.02.1919: 408. Infanterie-Brigade / 212. Infanterie-Division

Countries In Which The IR 182 Fought, 1912-1919

1912 - 1919

 Russland (Russia)
Galizien (Galicia in Southern Poland)
Rumanien (Romania)
Ukraine
Belgien (Belgium)
Frankreich (France)

            

  • 27-56 PORCELAIN TABLE MEDAL COMMEMORATING INFANTERIE-REGIMENT Nr 182's SERVICE - SAXONY. This is a post WW I, top-quality porcelain table medal from Saxony’s Meissen workshops. The table medal commemorates Saxon Infanterie-Regiment Nr 182's service. It was the last of the pre war regiments before the massive war call-ups in 1914. The regiment was garrisoned in Freiburg and only existed between 1912 and 1918.
     
    The table medal is made of bisque porcelain. It measures 1 ½" in diameter, and sports the brown exterior that is often appears on Meissen bisque porcelain table medals. One side has a German soldier in uniform, complete with stahlhelm. It appears that he is holding two "potato masher" grenades. Circling the medal around him we see the various places where the regiment fought. These areas included Russland (Russia), Galizien (Galicia in Southern Poland), Rumanien (Romania), Ukraine, Belgien (Belgium), and Frankreich (France). So, the regiment fought on both the Eastern and Western Fronts. On its reverse we see printed on its edges "Unsere Gefallen - Freiburg 1922." In the center we see what appears to be the towers of an old castle. Below that we see IR 182, 1912-1919, and Meissen’s crossed swords.     ....

https://www.derrittmeister.com/tablemed.htm

Freiberg

  • A super quality commemorative table medal made by the famous Meissen porcelain works. The medal was produced as a remembrance to the fallen comrades of Infantry Regiment 182.

The Meissen porcelain works produced art works, tableware, as well as military pieces. This is an example of the latter. It's not porcelain, but rather "Böttger Steinzeug", which is a traditional material often used by Meissen. This is a table medal which commemorated "Our fallen" of Infantry Regiment 182 from Freiberg as reads the reverse. The dates 1912-1919 are noted as well as "Freiberg 1922". The medal also exhibits the crossed swords mark of the Meissen company. The medal obverse features a WWI German soldier with grenades and the names of the countries in which the regiment fought. The piece is in mint condition with no damage or chips. It's amazing that the piece has survived intact over the last 84 years!

http://www.craiggottlieb.com/engine/inspect.asp?Item=462&Filter=Archive&Name=Meissen+
World+War+One+Remembrance+Plaquette

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1913

DECEMBER 12

Max von Hausen

16th Infantry, Infantry Regiment 182

  • Sein fünfzigstes Militärdienstjubiläum feierte der verdiente Soldat am 12. Dezember 1913. Ein Menschenalter hatte Max von Hausen im Truppen- und Generalstabsdienst durch alle Dienstgrade am Ausbau der sächsischen Armee mitgewirkt. König Friedrich August III. ernannte ihn zum Chef des 16. Infanterie-Regiments Nr. 182 in Freiberg, das damit seinen Namen trug. Am 21. Mai 1914 nahm der Generaloberst seinen Abschied und zog sich in sein Loschwitzer Eigenheim zurück, wo er einen beschaulichen Lebensabend zu verbringen hoffte ...

    • https://www.sachsen-depesche.de/kultur/zur-erinnerung-an-
      generaloberst-max-freiherr-von-hausen-1846-1922.html

      • The deserved soldier celebrated his fiftieth military service jubilee on December 12, 1913. Max von Hausen, a member of the army and general staff, had contributed to the expansion of the Saxon army by means of all the various degrees of service. King Friedrich August III. appointed him as head of the 16th Infantry Regiment No. 182 in Freiberg, which bore his name. On May 21, 1914, the Generaloberst took his leave and retired to his home in Loschwitz, where he hoped to spend a quiet evening of life ...

1914

AK Freiberg, Kaserne des Infanterie-Reg. Nr. 182
(AK Freiberg, barracks of Infantry Reg. 182)

http://www.ak-ansichtskarten.de/ak/index.php?menu=91&shop=2051&card=
2068018&alte-ansichtskarten=AK_Freiberg__Kaserne_des_Infanterie-Reg__Nr__182

Ansichtskarte / Postkarte Freiberg Sachsen, Kaserne Infanterie Regiment 182 - Postcard / postcard Freiberg, Saxony, barracks Infantry Regiment 182
 http://www.akpool.de/ansichtskarten/84957-ansichtskarte-
postkarte-freiberg-sachsen-kaserne-infanterie-regiment-182 

Andrew Lucas, Jurgen Schmieschek, Fighting the Kaiser's War: The Saxons in Flanders 1914-1918, p. 9 - Introduction - https://books.google.ca/books?isbn=1473848008

The battalion flags 1-3 of the Royal Saxony 16. Infantry -
Regiments No. 182 / Freiberg i. Saxony.

Historische Zeitreise durch das sächsische Freiberg u. Umgebung

https://www.facebook.com/Historische-
Zeitreise-durch-das-s%C3%A4chsische-Freiberg-u-
Umgebung-364737050389542/photos/1301999256663312

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(1) CAREER: 1914 - 1919

Freiderich Wilhelm Krause (b. January 18, 1897, Bischofswerda, Saxony, GERMANY [Sachsen, DEUTSCHLAND]  - d. December 9, 1983, Leamington, Ontario, CANADA).
He served in WW1, in France, and on the Eastern Front, including Russia. His wife was Maria Mietz Kornelsen (b. May 5, 1900, Tiegenhagen, Molotschna, Wollost Halbstadt, SOUTH RUSSIA) - d. April 2, 1991, Leamington, Ontario, CANADA). They were married May 16, 1920, in Halbstadt, Molotschna, SOUTH RUSSIA.
After March 15, 1921, they moved to Germany.

Military Rank

IR 182 Friedrich Wilhelm Krause (Before November 24, 1914 - Post December 4, 1914)

Jäger Friedrich Wilhelm Krause (By October 1, 1915 - c. December 21, 1917/February 11, 1918)

IR 182 Soldat Friedrich Wilhelm Krause (c. December 21, 1917/February 11, 1918 - September 30, 1919)

IR 182 Gefreiter Friedrich Wilhelm Krause (As of September 30, 1919 - )

August 27, 1918 and  October 30, 1918

Iron Cross, Second Class (Eisernen Kreuzes 2, Klasse)
and Wounded Badge In Black (Verwundete Abzeichen in Schwarze)

Ist Inhaber folgender Orden und Ehr zeichen:  Holds the following medals and honor sign:

E. K II. 27. 8. 18.

Verw. Abz. in Schwarze

Awarded German Iron Cross, in the field August 27, 1918

Vorläufige Bescheinigung über den Besitz des Eisernen Kreuzes 2, Klasse -
Provisional certificate of ownership of the Iron Cross 2nd class

Im Ramen Sr. Majestät des Kaisers -
In Ramen His Majesty the Emperor

Soldat Friedrich Wilhelm Krause, 9. Kompagnie Jnfanterie Regiment Nr. 182. -
Soldier Friedrich Wilhelm Krause, 9 Company Infanterie Regiment No. 182

geboren am 18. 1. 97. in Bishchofswerda Amtish. Bautzen -
born on 18. 1. 97. in Bishchofswerda Amtish. Bautzen

das Eisernen Kreuzes 2, Klasse verliehen worden -
been awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class

Im Felde, den 27. 8. 1918 Kommando der Rgl. Sächs. 212. Infanterie-Division -
In the field, 27. 8. 1918 Command Rgl. Saxon. 212th Infantry Division.

Awarded Black Badge for Being Wounded, in the field August 30, 1918
 

Bescheinigung über den Besitz des Abzeichen für Verwundete Dem Soldat -
Certificate of ownership of the badge for The wounded soldier

Friedrich Wilhelm Krause, 9. Komp. 16. K. S. Jnfanterie Regiment Nr. 182. -
Friedrich Wilhelm Krause, 9. Comp. 16. K. S. Infanterie Regiment Nr. 182.

ist das Schwarze Abzeichen für Verwundete verliehen worden -
Black is the badge has been awarded for wounded

im field den 30. 8. 1918 -
in field 30. 8. 1918

16. Kgl. Sächs Jnf. Rgt. Nr. 182 -
16 Kgl. Saxon Inf. Rgt. No. 182

Part of his Finger on his Left Hand was Lost
(First Left Finger Off at Second Joint)

  

F W Krause (Right), c. August 27, 1918, or later
Photographer: J. Dürr. [Julius Dürr, Bischofswerda]

Note: Iron Cross Ribbon and Hirschfänger (a hunter dagger)

[For example see below: "Fotografie Jul. Dürr, Bischofswerda" -
Photography Jul. Dürr, Bischofswerda, portrait soldier with shoulder flap 12 [Jäger-Bataillon Nr. 12?]

NOTE

[The person standing next to F W Krause may perhaps also be seen

in an earlier picture of a man in the IR 182 trenches: SEE winter 1915-16]

DR. OF PHILOSOPHY  ALEXANDER PACHE - ALFRED PACHE


IR 182 at Wytschaete, January 1916. Prof. Dr. phil. Alexander Pache, also known as Alfred was born on 31st December 1878 in Steinigtwolmsdorf near Bautzen.

http://www.royalsaxonarmy.co.uk/royalsaxonarmy/index.php/articles/26-a-teacher-in-the-trenches-ir-182-at-wytschaete-january-1916 - A Teacher in the Trenches

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Note: Iron Cross Ribbon and Hirschfänger (a hunter dagger)
http://www.ak-ansichtskarten.de/ak/index.php?tabsessfilltab=
2d966a8de1c94c0ca3e98f7a5b41461c&tabsessfilltab
=2d966a8de1c94c0ca3e98f7a5b41461c&search=standard&searchword=
Fotografie+Jul.+D%C3%BCrr%2C+Bischofswerda%2C+&id=0

Note: As of 1913: Dürr, Julius, Photograph, Kirchstraße 26, Bischofswerda
https://digital.slub-dresden.de/werkansicht/dlf/94775/40/    

On the standard German enlisted man's Feldmütze (field cap), there are two buttons:
The top button indicated the German army, the bottom button indicated what German State the soldier served.
The soldier on the left (is he missing parts of two fingers?) is wearing a post 1915 Bluse type wool tunic.
The ribbon on their tunics are for the Prussian Eiserne Kreuz II Klasse (Iron Cross II class).
In the field, only the ribbon was worn in the second button hole, while the medal would have been sent home for safekeeping.

http://www.worldwar1.com/sfgeruni.htm

 

Fig 3 and 3b: Fahrer (driver) Alwin Müller and fellow field artillery reservists from the town of Bertsdorf, serving with Reserve-Artillerie-Munitions-Kolonne Nr 5/XII Reserve-Korps in March 1915. By the time this photo was sent as a postcard on 23 April the column had been redesignated Artillerie-Munitions-Kolonne Nr 1/123 Infanterie-Division. All present wear the uniform of their original peacetime regiment, FAR 28 from Bautzen. Courtesy Andrew Lucas.

http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/the-great-war/great-war-on-
land/germany-allies/2833-loos-to-st-eloi-the-experience-of-the-saxon-
123-infanteriedivision-on-the-western-front-1915.html#sthash.gHokZiWc.dpbs - Stand To! No 96 January 2013, Loos to St Eloi - the Experience of the Saxon 123 Infanterie-Division on the Western Front, 1915 – Part 1, 15–20 - See Also: https://www.flickr.com/photos/westernfrontassociation/sets/
 72157632510845695/with/8377018975/

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1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

"Jäger Battalion 12", Company 3

Hospital, "St. Johannis", Freiberg, Sachsen

September 20, 1917; October 6-7, 1917; October 12, 1917

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Iron Cross 2nd Class: For Individual Merit In Combat
(For 2nd Class - The ribbon was warn looped through the second button hole in the front of the uniform)

The Black Wound Badge was awarded for less than three wounds

http://www.jasta5.org/Jagdstaffeln_5/red_baron_j5_awards.htm

  • By a Royal Decree of the 3 of March, 1918, published in the Army Gazette /Armee-Verordnungsblatt) for the 9th of March, 1918, the Emperor / Kaiser Wilhelm II created the Army Wound badge. The enabling statute read:- "In extraordinary appreciation I wish to confer a special badge of recognition on all those soldiers who have been wounded (lost blood) for the Fatherland and for those who have lost their health during service against the enemy and have been invalided from the service. The Ministry for War will issue the required orders and regulations . . . ."

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(2) INFANTRY REGIMENT 182: TYPICAL UNIFORM

photo encadrée d'un soldat allemand du IR 182 avant 1914
photo de studio d'un soldat allemand avant 1914 du Infanterie Regiment 182 (16° régiment saxon, créé en 1912 et stationné à Freiberg)
http://www.ebay.fr/itm/photo-encadree-dun-soldat-allemand-du-IR-182-avant-1914-/162463001701?hash=item25d38cac65:g:9ZEAAOSw4CFY54kC

Ansichtskarte Soldatenfoto, Infanterie Regiment 182 Freiberg, Königreich Sachsen, WKI Militär -
Photo Postcard Soldiers, Infantry Regiment 182 Freiberg, Saxony Kingdom, WKI Military
For more details: See: http://www.meinansichtskartenshop.de/Ansichtskarte-
Soldatenfoto-Infanterie-Regiment-182-Freiberg-Koenigreich-Sachsen-WKI-Militaer

Infantryman, Kgl. Sächs. 16. Infanterie-Regiment Nr.182
For more details: See:http://www.flickr.com/photos/drakegoodman/3952737980/in/photostream/

Regiment and Garrison

Cuff Pattern & Color

Buttons

Straps

Wappen
( Kgl. Sächs. 16. Infanterie-Regt. Nr.182
(Freiberg) XIX Armee Korps [XII Armee Korps?]		 Sachsen Piped in Blue Gilt "Squared" Blue w/ Red Piping w/ Yellow 182 Gilt Sachsen Wappen on Silver Star

http://www.kaisersbunker.com/gtp/New/infantry1.htm

[OCTOBER 1, 1914]

[See Colour Version Below]

Letter on reverse (below) with postage cancelled at Freiberg on 1.10.1914. Freiberg was the hometown of Kgl. Sächs. 16. Infanterie-Regiment Nr.182.

He wears a M1892 Überzug (helmet cover) with his regiment's number sewn onto the front in thin, dark green cloth, M1910 tunic and his boots are the standard infantry boot, the Model 1866 Infanteriestiefel and he is armed with a Gew 98.

The 123rd Infantry Division initially fought on the Western Front, entering the line in the Aisne region in mid-April 1915. Later in 1915, it fought in the Battle of Loos. It remained on the front in the Flanders and Artois regions into 1916, and in July entered the Battle of the Somme, where it reportedly lost 6,000 men.

It was transferred to the Eastern Front at the end of the month, where it went into the line near Lake Narač [Lake Narach (Naroch) - North-West Belarus) [Lake Narotoch] until November 1917, when it returned to the Western Front. It went into the line near Verdun until May 1918. It later fought in the Second Battle of the Marne and then returned to the line near Verdun.

Late in 1918, it faced the Allied Meuse-Argonne Offensive. It remained in the line until the end of the war. Allied intelligence rated the Division as third class and of mediocre combat value.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/drakegoodman/5531760050/

OCTOBER 1, 1914

The Great War Königlich Sächsische 16 Infanterie Regiment Nr.182 - 1st of October 1914

http://www.ddoughty.com/ww1-in-colour.html

1 Ers. Komp.
16. Kgl. Sächs. Inf. Reg.
No 182
11 Korporalschaft
1915

http://www.ebay.fr/itm/Regiment-Foto-Ak-1-Ers-Komp-16-Kgl-
Sachs-Inf-Reg-No-182-11-Korp-1915-/331031230935

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4 x WK1 Foto Infanterie Regiment Nr.182 Freiberg Königsbrück Sachsen 5469

Birvak I-Rgts. 182 Koniglich
Bivouac Infantry Regiment 182 Royal

http://www.ebay.de/itm/4-x-WK1-Foto-Infanterie-Regiment-Nr-182-Freiberg-
Konigsbruck-Sachsen-5469-/371552982385?hash=item5682489571:g:dJ0AAOSwDuJWt5zy

4 x WK1 Foto Infanterie Regiment Nr.182 Freiberg Königsbrück Sachsen 5470

http://www.ebay.de/itm/4-x-WK1-Foto-Infanterie-Regiment-Nr-182-Freiberg-
Konigsbruck-Sachsen-5470-/121892841705?hash=item1c616128e9:g:Tw8AAOSwx-9Wt50I

4 x WK1 Foto Infanterie Regiment Nr.182 Freiberg Königsbrück Sachsen 5468

http://www.ebay.de/itm/4-x-WK1-Foto-Infanterie-Regiment-Nr-182-
Freiberg-Konigsbruck-Sachsen-5468-/371552982387?hash=
item5682489573:g:dfoAAOSwFNZWt5zd

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INFANTRY REGIMENT 182: SITUATION: 1914

August, 1914

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataille_des_Fronti%C3%A8res

Belgium and France, 1914, Battle of Frontiers-North, 2-26 August 1914

http://www.patriotfiles.com/forum/showthread.php?t=110523

August 15, 1914

 http://www.1914-1918.net/bat1.htm

August 20, 1914

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Battle_of_Frontiers_-_Map.jpg

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August 21 - 21, 1914

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Frontiers

September 14, 1914

http://www.battlefield-tours.com/introduction.htm

Imperial Germany's Third Army, 2 August 1914

  • Oberbefehlshaber: Generaloberst Max Klemens FH von Hausen
    Stabschef: Generalmajor Ernst von Hoeppner
    1.Generalstabsoffizier: Oberstleutnant Hasse
    Adjutant: Major Bramsch
    Oberquartiermaster: Generalmajor Leuthold
    General der Pioniere: Generalmajor Franz Adams
    HQ: Clervaux, Lux (formed in Dresden)  ....

XII. Armeekorps (1. Sächsischses): General der Infanterie Karl Ludwig d'Elsa
Stabschef: Oberst Hans von Eulitz
1.GSO: Major von Loeben
Adjutant: Major von Zeschau
Garnison: Dresden

23. Infanterie Division (1. Sächsischse) - Dresden: Generalleutnant Karl FH von Lindeman [Generalleutnant Karl Freiherr von Lindeman]
Stabschef: Major von Hingst
Adjutant: Major Gericke

2. Infanterie-Brigade Nr. 46 - Dresden: Generalmajor Bernhard von Watzdorf  [46. (Sächsische) Landwehr-Division - Bernhard Gustav von Watzdorf -His assignment and command:  02.08.1914 46. Infanterie-Brigade (2. Königlich Sächsische) = 3. Armee]
Adjutant: Hauptmann von Wittern
Königlich Sächsisches Schützen (Füsilier)-Regiment Prinz Georg Nr. 108 - Dresden: Oberst Woldemar Graf Vitzthum v. Eckstädt
Königlich Sächsisches 16. Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182 - Freiberg: Oberst Franz Francke

http://home.comcast.net/~jcviser/army/OBc.htm and http://home.comcast.net/~jcviser/akb/watzdorf.htm

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XII. (I. Königlich Sächsisches) Armeekorps
http://www.worldlingo.com/ma/dewiki/de/23._
Division_(1._K%C3%B6niglich_
S%C3%A4chsische)
 
23. Division (1. Königlich Sächsische) (Das Divisionskommando stand in Dresden)
46. Infanteriebrigade (2. Königlich Sächsische) in Dresden
16. Königlich Sächsisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182 in Freiberg und Königsbrück

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/23._
Division_(1._Königlich_Sächsische)

 

 XII. Army Corps District (I. Royal Saxon) Army Corps (Division Command in Dresden)

 23. Division (1st Royal Saxon)

 46. Infantry Brigade (2nd Royal Saxon) in Dresden

16. Royal Saxon Infantry Regiment 182 in Freiberg and Königsbrück

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2nd (Kgl.sächs.) Infanterie-Brigade Nr.46 - 46. Infantry Brigade (2nd Royal Saxon)

Brigade Headquarters: 1914 - Dresden

Subordinated units:

KGL. Sachs. Schützen (Fusilier) Regiment Prinz-Georg Nr.108 - Mušketiersky Regiment (Royal Saxon) 108

KGL. Sachs. 16th Infanterie-Regiment Nr.182 - Infantry Regiment (16th Royal Saxon) 182

Superior to the levels:

1914

3rd Army - 3 army
XII. Armeekorps (1st KGL. Sachs) - Dec. armádny Choir (1st Royal Saxon)
23rd Division (1st KGL. Sachs) - 23 Division (1st Royal Saxon)

http://en.valka.cz/viewtopic.php/t/64322

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INFANTRY REGIMENT 182 of the 23rd Division:

COMMANDERS

[Note: The 182 was with the 23rd for 1914-1915, and was apparently transferred to the 123rd in 1915, so something is wrong here.

It appears to be all the Commanders up to 1918 or 1919  for the remaining 123, 216 and 212 divisions where the 182 was placed]

 

COMMANDER FRANZ SAMUEL LUDWIG FRANKE (1914 - )

COMMANDER VON ABEKEN (May 7, 1915)

COMMANDER VON HALKETT (February 16, 1916)

COMMANDER THOMAS (September, 1916)

COMMANDER MARTINI

COMMANDER SCHULTZE

COMMANDER RÜHLEMANN

COMMANDER MAX BUNDE

COMMANDER NAÜMANN

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

Königlich Sächsisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182

  • Francke
  • 07.05.1915 von Abeken
  • 16.02.1916 Freiherr von Halkett
  • September 1916 Thomas
  • Martini
  • Schultze
  • Rühlemann
  • Bunde [1918 for certain]
  • Naumann [Näumann?] [1914]

 

                
Royal Saxon Infantry Regiment No. 182
  • Francke
  • 07/05/1915 Von Abeken
  • 02/16/1916 Baron Von Halkett
  • September 1916 Thomas
  • Martini
  • Schultze
  • Rühlemann
  • Bunde [1918 for certain]
  • Naumann  [Näumann?] [1914]

 

http://www.militaerpass.net/23id.htm

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INFANTRY REGIMENT 182: PLATOON AND COMPANY LEADER AND REGIMENTS ADJUTANT

1914 - 1920

(i) HANS WOLFGANG REINHARD [11 December 1888 – 6 October 1950]

http://ww2gravestone.com/people/reinhard-hans-wolfgang/

LIEUTENANT HANS WOLFGANG REINHARD [11 December 1888 – 6 October 1950]

  • 01.10.1912 Bataillons-Adjutant im Kgl. Sächs. 16. Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182, Freiberg

    • Battalion adjutant in the Royal. Saxon. 16 Infantry Regiment No. 182, Freiberg

  • 22.06.1914 mit dem 01.10.1914 kommandiert zur Kriegsakamie (infolge Mobilmachung später aufgehoben)

    • commanded the Military Academy (later overturned due to mobilization)

  • 12.12.1914 Kompanie-Führer im Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182

    • Company leader in the Infantry Regiment No. 182

  • 15.02.1915 Bataillons-Adjutant im Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182

    • Battalion adjutant in the Infantry Regiment No. 182

  • 27.09.1915 verwundet

    • wounded

  • 28.11.1915 Kompanie-Führer im Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182

    • Company leader in the Infantry Regiment No. 182

  • 02.11.1916 Führer des II. Bataillons des Infanterie-Regiments Nr. 182

    • Leader of the Second Battalion of Infantry Regiment No. 182

  • 15.10.1917 im Generalstab der 19. Ersatz-Division

    • the General Staff of the 19th Replacement Division

  • 17.03.1919 Kompanie-Führer in einer Grenzjäger-Abteilung der Freiwillligen Grenzjäger-Brigade 2 im Bereich des Generalkommandos XII. Armeekorps, Dresden (Freistaat Sachsen)

  • Reinhard, Hans Wolfgang, born 11-12-1888 in Hohenstein Ernsttal, four months before Adolf Hitler, joined the Army Service age 19, on 30-03-1908 as Fahnenjunker in the Kaiserliche Armee, with the Königlich Sächsisches 8. Infanterie-Regiment “Prinz Johann Georg” Nr. 107. Promoted to Lieutenant on 20-08-1907 and was in the fields of the first war as an Oberleutnant with the 182nd Königlich Sachsische Infantry Regiment. He was awarded with both the Iron Crosses [WWI and WW2] ...

  • Iron Cross (1914), 2nd Class, 1st Class

(ii) RICHARD HEIDRICH

https://de.allbuch.online/wiki/Heidrich,_Richard
(1 October 1916-15 May 1920: Platoon and Company Leader in the Royal Saxon 16. Infanterie-Regiment Nr.182.)

http://www.geocities.com/~orion47/WEHRMACHT/LUFTWAFFE/
General/HEIDRICH_RICHARD.html

  • Am 1. Oktober 1916 kam er zum königlich-sächsischen 16. Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182, wo er zuerst Zugführer wurde, dann Kompanieführer und zuletzt war er Regiments-Adjutant. Bei Kriegsende war er Leutnant und wurde 1920 Zugführer im Reichswehr-Infanterie-Regiment 24 ...)
    (On 1 October 1916 he joined the Royal Saxon 16th Infantry Regiment 182, where he was first platoon leader, company commander and then finally he was regimental adjutant. When the war ended he was a lieutenant and platoon leader in 1920 in the Reichswehr Infantry Regiment 24 ...)

http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Personenregister/HeidrichR.htm

  • Am 1. Oktober 1916 wurde er dann zum 16. Königlich Sächsisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182 versetzt, wo er zuerst als Zugführer eingesetzt wurde. Hier war er bis zum Kriegsende im Westen und im Osten als Zug- und MGK-Kompanieführer sowie schließlich als Regimentsadjutant eingesetzt. Bedingt durch An der Somme wurde er 1914 verwundet. 1918 kehrte Richard Heidrich im November hoch ausgezeichnet in die Heimat zurück. Als Freikorps 1919 ging Heidrich mit nach Litauen und wurde dann 1920 in die Reichswehr übernommen.
     

    • (On 1 October 1916, he became the 16th Royal Saxon Infantry Regiment No. 182 put, where he was first employed as train drivers. Here he was employed until the end of war in the west and east as train and MGK [Machine Gun Company]-company commander, and finally as a regimental adjutant. Due to the Somme he was wounded 1914th. 1918 Richard Heidrich came back in November awarded high into the home. As a volunteer corps in 1919 after Heidrich went to Lithuania and then was taken in 1920 in the Army.

http://de.metapedia.org/wiki/Heidrich,_Richard

  • als solcher wurde er zu dem in Freiberg beheimateten Königlich-Sächsischen 16. Infanterieregiment Nr. 182 versetzt und tat hier bis zum Kriegsende im Westen und im Osten als Zug- und MGK-Kompanieführer sowie schließlich als Regimentsadjutant Dienst.
    An der Somme wurde er verwundet und kehrte im November 1918 hoch ausgezeichnet in die Heimat zurück. 1919 ging Heidrich mit einem Freikorps nach Litauen und wurde dann 1920 in die Reichswehr übernommen, wo das 10. (Sächsische) Infanterieregiment für das nächste Jahrzehnt seine soldatische Heimat wurde.
     

    • (as such, he was based in Freiberg to the Royal Saxon 16th Infantry Regiment 182 was added and did this until the end of war in the west and east as train and MGK [ [Machine Gun Company]-company commander, and finally as a regimental adjutant service.
      On the Somme he was wounded and returned in November 1918 awarded back up into the home. Heidrich in 1919 went with a volunteer corps to Lithuania in 1920 and was then transferred to the Army, where the 10th (Saxon) Infantry Regiment for the next decade was his soldier home.)

http://www.ritterkreuztraeger-1939-45.de/Luftwaffe/H/Heidrich-Richard.htm

  • Im Ersten Weltkrieg war er zunächst als Zug-, später als Kompanieführer tätig, zuletzt als Regiments-Adjutant im 16. Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182 (Freiberg). Nach Kriegsende schloss er sich einem Freikorps in Litauen an und wurde 1920 in die Reichswehr übernommen.
     

    • (During World War I he worked as train, later as company commander, most recently as regimental adjutant in the 16th Infantry Regiment 182 (Freiberg). After the war he joined a volunteer corps in Lithuania and was incorporated in 1920 in the Army)

http://de-de.facebook.com/pages/Richard-Heidrich/108116355876402

 RICHARD HEIDRICH
(1 October 1916-15 May 1920: Platoon and Company Leader in the Royal Saxon 16. Infanterie-Regiment Nr.182.)

1916-1920

PROMOTIONS

  • War Volunteer: 18 August 1914

  • Gefreiter: 17 November 1914

  • Unteroffizier: 18 May 1915

  • Fähnrich: 14 July 1915

  • Leutnant: 20 August 1915 – Patent 17 December 1915, later established at 1 September 1915

COMMANDS AND ASSIGNMENTS

  • 18 August 1914-10 April 1915: Entered the Army as a War Volunteer in Reserve Infantry Regiment 101.

  • 11 April 1915-30 September 1916: Transferred to the Royal Saxon 3. Infanterie-Regiment König Ludwig III von Bayern Nr.102.

  • 1 October 1916-15 May 1920: Platoon and Company Leader in the Royal Saxon 16. Infanterie-Regiment Nr.182.

  • 16 May 1920-30 September 1920: Platoon Leader in Reichswehr Border Jäger Regiment 24 of Reichswehr-Brigade 12.

  • 1 October 1920-26 August 1924: Platoon Leader in the 10th (Saxon) Infantry Regiment upon the formation of the new Reichsheer from the Übergangsheer or Transitional Army.

  • Richard Heidrich trat am 18. August 1914 als Kriegsfreiwilliger in das Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 101 ein. Im April 1915 kam er zum 3. Königlich Sächsisches Infanterie-Regiment "König Ludwig III von Bayern" Nr. 102 an die Front. Bei diesem wurde er am 20. August 1915 zum Leutnant befördert. Am 1. Oktober 1916 wurde er dann zum 16. Königlich Sächsisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182, wo er zuerst als Zugführer eingesetzt wurde. Später wurde er dann in seinem Regiment auch als Kompanieführer und zuletzt als Regimentsadjutant eingesetzt. Im 1. Weltkrieg wurde er nicht nur verwundet, was sich in der Verleihung des Verwundetenabzeichens in Schwarz widerspiegelte. Im Ersten Weltkrieg wurden ihm neben beiden Eisernen Kreuzen auch noch andere sächsische Auszeichnungen verliehen. Bei Kriegsende war er noch immer Leutnant und wurde dann als solcher auch in das Reichsheer übernommen. Sein Rangdienstalter wurde dabei auf den 1. September 1915 festgelegt. Beim 200.000 Mann-Übergangsheer im Frühjahr 1920 wurde er dann als Zugführer in der Minenwerfer-Kompanie vom Reichswehr-Infanterie-Regiment 24 eingesetzt. Bei der Bildung des 100.000 Mann-Heeres der Reichswehr wurde er dann als solcher in die 13 ...

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OTHER

HELMUT BERNHARD FRANZ BECHLER

  • Helmut Bernhard Franz Bechler wurde am 02.06.1898 in Grün im Vogtland/Sachsen geboren und trat am 10.06.1915, als Fahnenjunker, dem I. Ersatz-Bataillon des Kgl. Sächs. 16. Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182 in Freiberg/Sachsen bei. Mit Ende der Ausbildung wir Bechler am 24.11.1915 zur 8. Kompanie ins Feld versetzt, nachdem er vor zu einem Einjährigen-Kur und zu einem Fahnenjunker-Kurs nach Döberitz kommandiert wurde. Bei den Kämpfen an der Westfront, am 11.07.1916 verwundet, wird er nach seiner Wiederkehr an die Front, am 21.12.1916 Ordonnanz-Offizier beim Stab des II. Bataillons des Infanterie-Regiments 182, nachdem er während seines Lazarettsaufenthalts am 21.10.1916 zum Leutnant befördert wurde ....

  • Helmut Bechler
     

    • Entered Army Service (10 Jun 1915)
      Famenjunker in the 16th Royal Saxon 182nd Infantry-Regiment (10 Jun 1915-11 Jul 1916)
      Detached to Fahnenjunker-Course at Dbberitz (01 Sep 1915-06 Nov 1915)
      Wounded, in Hospital (11 Jul 1916-21 Dec 1916)
      Ordinance-Officer with the Staff of the 11. Battalion of the 182nd Infantry-Regiment (21 Dec 1916-14 Mar 1918)
      Platoon-Leader and Signals-Officer in the 11. Battalion of the 182nd Infantry-Regiment (14 Mar 1918-04 Dec 1918)
      At the same time, was Company-Leader in the 182nd Infantry-Regiment (06 Aug 1918-14 Aug 1918)
      Adjutant of the 1. Battalion of the 182nd Infantry-Regiment (04 Dec 1918-19 Feb 1919)
      Granted Leave for Studies at Berlin (19 Feb 1919-27 Mar 1919)
      Platoon-Leader and Temporary-Adjutant of the I. Battalion in the Assault-Infantry-Regiment of the Guards-Cavalry-Rifle-Division (27 Mar 1919-21 Jun
      1919)
      Company-Leader in the 56th Reichswehr-Infantry-Regiment (21 Jun 1919-10 Dec 1919)
      Adjutant of the 11. Battalion of the 20th Infantry-Regiment (10 Dec 1919-01 Mar 1920)
      Ordinance-Officer with the Staff of the III. Battalion of the 37th Infantry-Regiment (01 Mar 1920-01 Oct 1920)
      Transferred into the 24th Infantry-Regiment (01 Oct 1920-31 Dec 1920)

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HIS ATTACHED JÄGER  BATTALION

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1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

Jäger Friedrich Wilhelm Krause
(By October 1, 1915 - c. December 21, 1917/February 11, 1918)

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Das Königlich Sächsische 1. Jäger Bataillon Nr. 12

ROLL OF HONOUR: MEMORY OF OUR FALLEN SOLDIERS - 1914 - 1919

COMPANY 3

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1914

  • The army of the Kingdom of Saxony added two Jäger battalions, which were included in the Imperial German Army order of battle as Kgl. Sächsisches 1. Jäger-Bataillon Nr. 12 and Kgl. Sächsisches 2. Jäger-Bataillon Nr. 13. The Saxon Jäger had a number of dress distinctions - notably tunics of a darker green than the Prussian colour, black facings instead of red and a black buffalo-hair plume buckled to the side of the shako. .....

    On mobilization in August 1914, each of these Prussian, Saxon and Bavarian Jäger battalions raised a reserve Jäger battalion. In September 1914, an additional 12 reserve Jäger battalions were raised (10 Prussian and 2 Saxon). In May 1915, the German Army began joining the Jäger battalions to form Jäger regiments, and in late 1917, the Deutsche Jäger-Division was formed.

    During the early stages of the First World War the German Jäger maintained their traditional role as skirmishers and scouts, often in conjunction with cavalry units. With the advent of trench warfare they were committed to an ordinary infantry role, integrated into divisions and losing their status as independent units. Cyclist Jäger served in the Balkan and Russian theatres of war while Wurttemberg and Bavaria raised Ski-Jäger during the winter of 1914-15. Another specialist formation was the Jäger Storm Companies, serving as trench raiders during 1917-1918.

    http://www.digplanet.com/wiki/J%C3%A4ger_%28military%29

     

  • In 1914, the Jaeger battalions had a very important role when attached to the cavalry. A German cavalry unit would normally send out mounted patrols of varying sizes to contact the enemy. Once contact was made, an assessment would be made as the nature of the enemy forces. If it was deemed appropriate to attack, the Jaegers would be pushed forward to pin the attacker in front. Mounted units would then be free to work their way round the flanks. Sordet, the French cavalry corps commander, complained about how difficult it was to get at the German cavalry. Typically the patrols would melt away and the French cavalry would find themselves coming up against the Jaegers, with their accurate rifle fire and machine guns.

    In retreat, the Jaegers would feature in rear guard actions. They would fall back behind a thin screen of mounted troopers. If a delaying action was needed, the Jaegers would occupy a defensive feature/s such as buildings on the far side of a river crossing or a wood/village on a forward slope. Typically, some field guns of the cavalry would be located in support, such as on a ridge further back. The troopers would be allowed to fall back through the Jaegers, who would then open fire on the approaching cavalry/infantry advance guards. There are numerous instances of this occurring in the retreat to the Aisne.

    From the outset of the war, trucks/lorries would sometimes be used to facilitate the forward or rearward movements of the Jaegers.

    Königliches Sächsisches 1. Jäger-Bataillon Nr.12

    By Krätzer in Dresden. Unused, but marked 1915 on the back.

    • Unit: Königliches Sächsisches 1. Jäger-Bataillon Nr.12

    • Rank: Jäger equivalent of a Gefreiter

    • Headwear: Distincitve Saxon Tschako with black horse-hair plume. The Wappen is a gilt Sachsen Wappen on Silver Horn and Star.

    • Tunic: Dark green pre-war (Jäger) tunic with Saxon cuffs, shoulder straps are marked with a horn above 12.

    • Awards: Iron Cross

    • Buckle: Saxon “PROVIDENTIAE MEMOR”

    • Armament: Private purchase hunting knife for use as trench knife.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/paranoid_womb/7791611250/

KÖNIGLICHES SACHSISCHES 1. JAGER-BATAILLON NR. 12:

Bataillonskommandeur

Dienstgrad Name Datum
Oberstleutnant von Kiesenwetter  ??? bis 1. August 1914
Major von Carlowitz 2. August 1914 bis 19. Oktober 1915
Hauptmann von Einsiedel 20. Oktober 1915 bis 8. November 1916
Hauptmann von der Pforte 9. November 1916 bis 8. April 1917
Major Hassel 9. April 1917 bis 24. Juli 1918
Major von Kracht 25. Juli 1918 bis 21. September 1918

 

Dienstgrad Name Datum
Generaloberst Freiherr von Hausen ab 1906

  • Maximillian von Kracht: Das Kgl. Sächs. 1. Jäger-Bataillon Nr. 12
     

  • [Max Clemens Lothar Freiherr von Hausen - Für seine Verdienste wurde Hausen vielfach geehrt. So stand er à la suite des 1. Jäger-Bataillons Nr. 12 in Freiberg und war unter anderem Träger des Hausordens der Rautenkrone, Ritter des Schwarzen Adlerordens sowie des Roten Adlerordens mit der Kette - http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_von_Hausen ]
     

  • 12th Royal Saxon Jäger Battalion
    The Königlich Sächsisches 1. Jäger-Batallion Nr.12     was formed in was formed in 1809 as part of the the Saxon contingent of the Confederation of the Rhine and as such took part in the Invasion of Russia in 1812. They fought against Prussia in the Austro-Prussian War at Königgrätz and alongside Prussia the Franco-Prussian War (notably at the Battles of Gravelotte-St.Privat and Sedan and the Siege of Paris).

    In 1914 they were garrisoned at Freiburg and formed part of the XII Army Corps. During the First World War they served on the Western Front at the Battles of the Marne, the Somme and the Spring Offensive of 1918. [The 1918 Spring Offensive or Kaiserschlacht (Kaiser's Battle), also known as the Ludendorff Offensive, was a series of German attacks along the Western Front during World War I, beginning on 21 March 1918 ..http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Offensive ]
     

1914 - 1918

KÖNIGLICHES SACHSISCHES 1. JAGER-BATAILLON NR. 12

Jäger Regiment No.10 (12th Jäger Battalion, 13th Reserve Jäger Battalion)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_J%C3%A4ger_units

1914

OCTOBER 16 - 31

THE BATTLE OF THE YSER

Crisp shot of a soldier of the Royal Saxon Jäger Battalion Nr. 12,
engaged in bitter warfare over the Yser canal
  https://www.flickriver.com/photos/paranoid_womb/tags/j%C3%A4ger/

1916

JANUARY 17

Ausmarschbild / Kgl. Sächs. Reserve-Jäger-Bataillon Nr. 12

Letter on reverse (below) authored in "Westen" (Western Front) on 17.1.1916
and addressed to the sender's brother Soldat Johannes Schöne,
serving with 1. Batl. of the 3. Kompanie of 4. Infanterie-Regiment Nr.103,
12 Armee-Korps, 32. Division. Soldaten-Brief: Res.-Jäger-Batl. 12.
Postage cancelled a day later (23. Reserve Division). Photogr. Max Seifert, Freiberg i. Sa.

Having just completed basic training, these fellows will soon be
departing for the Western Front where in July,
they will take part in the Battle of the Somme.

Notes:

Kgl. Sächs. Reserve-Jäger-Bataillon Nr. 12
Aufgestellt in Freiberg v. Jg.-Btl.Nr. 12
Unterstellung:23. Res.Div.
Kommandeur:Major v. Einsiedel (s. Jg.-Btl.Nr. 12)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/drakegoodman/8105014416/in/photostream/

MAY

Interesting study of German uniforms,
Salle de lecture Librairie at Marle near Vervins, May 1916. Photograph from a soldier of the
Jäger - Bataillon Nr. 12 (Saxon).

https://twitter.com/foxton44/status/1276590537743761408/photo/1

Chasseurs saxons Collection privée

http://www.sambre-marne-yser.be/article.php3?id_article=21

JULY - OCTOBER

  • Later, in the period  from July to October 1916; Jäger Regiments 4-10 joined together ....

    • Imperial German Army, 1914-18: Organisation, Structure, Orders of Battle By Hermann Cron. p. 117 - books.google.ca/books?isbn=1874622299 

1917


 SEPTEMBER 14

Jäger-Division

  • Jäger-Division (Deutsches Kaiserreich) .... Die Division wurde während des Ersten Weltkriegs am 14. September 1917 gebildet und während des Kriegsverlaufs zunächst an der Italien-, dann an der Westfront eingesetzt. Nach dem Waffenstillstand von Compiègne kehrten die Reste der Division in die Heimat zurück, wo sie am 14. Dezember 1918 in Berlin aufgelöst wurden.  [The division was formed during World War I on September 14, 1917 and then used during the course of the war, first in the Italy- on the Western Front]

Credit:
WWI German field kitchen of Saxon Jager Battalion No.12 in the Macedonian mountains, 1914-18 (b/w photo),
German Photographer (20th Century) / Private Collection / Peter Newark Pictures / The Bridgeman Art Library

http://www.bridgemanart.com/en-GB/search/keyword/field+kitchen

  • Most Jager battalions, by 1917, were consolidated into Jager Regiments, then allocated to specific divisions ...

  • 302 Division
    Macedonian Front.
    Jager Regiment 10 --Garde Jager Btn, 9 Jager Btn, 12 Res Jager Btn

  • Jager Regiment 9
    Vosges 1918--Garde Schutzen Btn, 12 Jager Btn, 13 Res Jager Btn

1918

MAY
 

  • and as the last installment Jäger Regiments 11-14 in May 1918 ...

    • Imperial German Army, 1914-18: Organisation, Structure, Orders of Battle By Hermann Cron. p. 117 - books.google.ca/books?isbn=1874622299

POST WW1

 

MILITÄR: 10 Mark, Porzellan-Medaille. SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER-BATAILLON 12, DRESDEN.

"Very interesting brown porcelain medal related to WWI. The medal was produced to commemorate the killed soldiers of Jaeger-Bataillon 12. "

http://www.ebay.de/itm/MILITAR-10-Mark-Porzellan-Medaille-SACHSISCHES-
JAGER-BATAILLON-12-DRESDEN-/282033063391?hash=
item41aa7b05df:g:KAgAAOSwP~tW1xJB

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SOME JAGER BATAILLON UNIFORM DETAILS

Sachsen Jäger Bataillon 12 Feldpost 1916

http://www.zkauf.de/7791a-sachsen-j%C3%A4ger-
bataillon-12-feldpost-1916-e180881618809.html

1. Kgl. Sähs. Jäger-Bataillion Nr. 12

... the typically Saxon habit of rolling the trouser legs over
the boot tops and a likewise typically casual attitude to his uniform and equipment ...

Andrew Lucas, Jurgen Schmieschek, Fighting the Kaiser's War: The Saxons in Flanders 1914-1918, p. 15 - Introduction - https://books.google.ca/books?isbn=1473848008

1923

Historische Zeitreise durch das sächsische Freiberg u. Umgebung

https://www.facebook.com/
Historische-Zeitreise-durch-das-s%C3%A4chsische-Freiberg-u-Umgebung-364737050389542/videos/169732384319953

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KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES 16 REGIMENT 182 DETAILS

23 DIVISION / 123 DIVISION / 216 DIVISION / 212 DIVISION

AND

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

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1914 - 1919

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According to 251 Division book IR182 was in:

23 Division in 1914-1915 Belgium/Marne/Aisne [12th Army Corps]
123 Division in 1915 Champagne/Artois/Flanders/Somme
216 Division in 1916 Galicia-Transylvania/Roumania
212 Division in 1917-1918 Roumania/Ukraine

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=24278 and http://www.1914-18.info/
http://www.wehrmacht-awards.com/forums/showthread.php?t=180853

See 23 Division - Western Front for Background Information
See 123 Division - Western Front for Background Information
See 216 Division (Independent Division) - Eastern Front for Background Information
 See 212 Division (Independent Division) - Eastern Front for Background Information

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WESTERN FRONT

KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES 16 REGIMENT 182
AND
1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12
 ON THE WESTERN FRONT: 1914 - 1916

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1914 - 1916

Infanterie-Regiment Nr.182
Königlich Sächsisches 16. Infanterie-Regiment Nr.182
 (46.Inf.-Brig./23.Inf.-Div./XII. Armeek./3.Armee)
(Standort: Freiberg)
Kommandeur: Oberst Francke

According to 251 Division book IR182 was in:

23 Division in 1914-1915 Belgium/Marne/Aisne
123 Division in 1915 Champagne/Artois/Flanders/Somme

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=24278 and http://www.1914-18.info/

Belgium/Marne/Aisne (1914-1915) and Champagne/Artois/Flanders/Somme (1915)

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INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

AUGUST 2, 1914 - MARCH 31, 1915:
2. (kgl.sächs.) Infanterie-Brigade Nr.46 / 1. kgl.sächs. Division Nr.23

wiki-de.genealogy.net/IR_182

AND

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

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AUGUST 9, 1914 - APRIL, 1915

23d DIVISION (1914 - 1915)

(STANDING DIVISION)

3 ARMY, XII ARMY CORPS (I ROYAL SAXON), 23 (I ROYAL SAXON) INFANTRY DIVISION
46 INFANTRY BRIGADE, 16 ROYAL SAXON, 182 INFANTRY REGIMENT

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 333-335  - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up

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AUGUST 9 - 11, 1914

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

GERMANY

EIFEL, NORTH OF TREVES [TRIER]

  • 1. The 23rd Division, on mobilization, was a part of the 12th Army Corps with the 32d Division (2d Army,Von Hausen). It detrained on August 9-11, 1914, at Eifel, north of Treves ....

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 333-336. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up

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AUGUST 12, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

AUFFE

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 10, 1914

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

  • AUFFE [Belgium], 12 AUGUST, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/254308  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 10, 1914, Page 1111, Edition 93

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AUGUST 23, 1914 - JANUARY 27, 1915

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

23. INFANTERIE-DIVISION (Sächsisch)

SUMMARY

Calendar of Battles and Engagements

  23. Infanterie-Division (S.) (Westfront)
23.08.–24.08.1914

 

 Schlacht bei Dinant

[AUGUST 23, 1914 - AUGUST 24, 1914: Battle of Dinant]
23.08.1914

 

 Dinant und Les Rivages

[AUGUST 23, 1914: Dinant and Rivages]
24.08.–27.08.1914

 

 Eingreifen der 3. Armee in den Kampf der 2. Armee bei Namur in Richtung Mettet-Philippeville und anschließende Verfolgung in südwestlicher und südlicher Richtung bis an die Sormonne

[AUGUST 24, 1914 - AUGUST 27, 1914: Intervention of third Army in the battle of the second Army at Namur towards Mettet-Philippe Ville and subsequent persecution in a southwesterly and southerly direction up to the Sormonne]
24.08.1914 Rosée; Onhaye

[AUGUST 24, 1914: Rosée; Onhaye]
25.08.1914 Villers en Fagne, Fagnolie, Nismes

[AUGUST 25, 1914: Villers en Fagne, Fagnolie, Nismes]
26.08.1914 Rocroi, Rimogne, La Tremblois

[AUGUST 26, 1914: Rocroi, Rimogne, La Tremblois]
27.08.–30.08.1914 Schlacht an der Maas und Verfolgung bis an die Aisne

[AUGUST 27, 1914 - AUGUST 30, 1914: Battle of the Meuse and tracking up to the Aisne]
27.08.1914 La Tremblois, Blombay, l'Echelle

[AUGUST 27, 1914: La Tremblois, Blombay, l'Echelle]
29.08.1914 Vieil-St. Remy, Novion-Porcien

[AUGUST 29, 1914: Vieil-St. Remy, Novion-Porcien]
30.08.1914 Rethel und Bertoncourt

[AUGUST 30, 1914: Rethel und Bertoncourt]
31.08.–05.09.1914 Schlacht an der Aisne und Verfolgung bis über die Marne

[AUGUST 31, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 5, 1914: Battle of the Aisne and tracking to over the Marne]
31.08.1914 Biermes, Ménil-Annelles

[AUGUST 31, 1914: Biermes, Ménil-Annelles]
01.09.1914 Annelles, Ménil-Annelles, Pauvres

[SEPTEMBER 1, 1914: Annelles, Ménil-Annelles, Pauvres]
02.09.–03.09.1914 Moronvilliers (Abteilung Franke der 23. Infanterie-Division)

[SEPTEMBER 2, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 3, 1914: Moronvilliers (Department Franke of the 23th Infantry Division)]
03.09.1914 Mourmelon (Abteilung Arnim der 23. Infanterie-Division)

[SEPTEMBER 3, 1914:Mourmelon (Department Arnim of the 23th Infantry Division)]
03.09.–04.09.1914 Livry

[SEPTEMBER 3, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 4, 1914: Livry]
06.09.–11.09.1914 Schlacht an der Marne

[SEPTEMBER 6, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 11, 1914: Battle of the Marne]
06.09.–10.09.1914 Maisons en Champagne westlich Vitry le François

[SEPTEMBER 9, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 10, 1914:Maisons en Champagne westlich Vitry le François
15.09.1914–28.08.1916 [sic 1914] Kämpfe an der Aisne

[SEPTEMBER 15, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 28, 1914:Fighting on the Aisne]
15.09.–22.09.1914 Schlacht bei Juvincourt

[SEPTEMBER 15, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 22, 1914: Battle of Juvincourt]
17.09.1914 Eroberung von La Ville aux Bois

[SEPTEMBER 17, 1914: Conquest of La Ville aux Bois]
25.01.–27.01.1915 Gefecht bei Hurtebise

[JANUARY 25, 1915 - JANUARY 27, 1915: Battle of Hurtebise]

http://www.militaerpass.net/23id.htm -
German infantry divisions 1914–1918 at http://www.militaerpass.net/inf_div.htm

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XII CORPS

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

KÖNIGLICHES SÄCHSISCHES 1. JAGER-BATAILLON NR. 12

Sächsische Armee

1. Königlich Sächsisches Jäger-Bataillon Nr. 12 (Freiberg) - XII. (I. Königlich Sächsisches) Armee-Korps
Reserve-Jäger-Bataillon Nr. 12 (Freiberg)

2. Königlich Sächsisches Jäger-Bataillon '''Nr. 13''' (Dresden) - XIX. (II. Königlich Sächsisches) Armee-Korps
Reserve-Jäger-Bataillon Nr. 13 (Dresden)
Königlich Sächsisches Reserve-Jäger-Bataillon Nr. 25 (Dresden) 53. Reserve-Division (3. Königlich Sächsische) XXVII. Reserve-Korps
Reserve-Jäger-Bataillon Nr. 26 (Freiberg) 54. (Württembergische) Reserve-Division
mit Maschinengewehr-Abteilung 9

http://diejaeger1860-1918.npage.de/liste-deutscher-jaegerbataillone-vor-1918.html

(I)

BELGIUM

(August 15, 1914 - August 26, 1914)

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AUGUST 15, 1914

BATTLE OF DINANT

 XIX. Armeekorps

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1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

Der erste Kampfeinsatz im Weltkrieg war die Schlacht um Dinant am 15. August 1914. Gemeinsam mit seinem Schwesterbataillon (Jäger-Bataillon Nr. 13) und zwei Batterien der Reitenden Abteilung des 5. Feldartillerie-Regiments Nr. 5 wurde dem Bataillon die Einnahme des Ortes zugeteilt. Nachdem die Bataillone den Ort eingenommen hatten, mussten sie ihn wieder aufgeben, denn die Franzosen griffen den Ort mit einem kompletten Regiment an. Nach der Unterstellung unter das XIX. Armeekorps wurde das Bataillon zur Absicherung des Vormarsches Richtung Marne verwandt, in der Hauptsache als Vorauskommando und Vorhut ....

  • The first combat mission in World War II was the Battle of Dinant on 15 August 1914. Together with its sister battalion ( hunter Battalion No. 13) and two batteries of the riding ends of the 5th Division Field Artillery Regiment No. 5 was assigned to the battalion taking the place. After the battalions had taken the place they had to give it back, because the French attacked the place with a full regiment. After the applicability of the XIX . Army Corps battalion to secure the advance direction of Marne was used mainly as an advance party and advance guard ....

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

  • 23d Division ... Composition ... 1914 ... Infantry ... Brigade ... 46 ... Regiment ... 182 ...

  • 23d Division ... Composition ... 1914 ... Infantry ... 12 Jag. Btn. ...

  • 23d Division ... Composition ... 1915 ... Infantry ... Brigade ... 46 ... Regiment ... 182 ...
         [Note: In 1915, Jäger 12 is not identified as attached to Division 23]

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AUGUST 15, 1914

Combat de Dinant

J. Bts nr 12
[Kgl. Sächsisches 1. Jäger-Bataillon Nr. 12]

[Note  I. Ersatz-Bataillon des  Königliches Sächsisches 16. Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182, Freiberg,
to which Nr. 12 is attached, will attack Dinant on August 23, 1914]

  • Forces en présence

    Du côté français :
    - 148e R.I.
    - 3e bataillon du 33e R.I.
    - 8e R.I. (qui interviendra par la suite)
    - 73e R.I.(qui appuiera le 8e R.I.)

    Du côté allemand :
    - 12e bataillon de chasseurs de Freyberg.
    - 11e bataillon des Garde-Schützen.
    - 13e bataillon des Garde-Jäger ...
     

  • Le 15 août a lieu une tentative sérieuse. Deux divisions de cavalerie, la 5e et celle de la Garde, appuyées par plusieurs bataillons dont les 12e et 13e bataillons de chasseurs se présentent face à Dinant. Il y a dans cette ville deux compagnies du 148e.Un bataillon du 33e et une section de mitrailleuses occupent la citadelle sur la rive droite. Des éléments de la 2e division (général Deligny), sont établis sur la rive gauche ...

  • On 15 August 1914, German troops captured the Citadel of Dinant overlooking the town until it was recaptured by a French counter-attack during the afternoon. French troops spent the next few days fortifying the Meuse crossings and exchanging fire with German troops on the east bank ...

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AUGUST 15, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

DINANT

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

AUGUST 18, 1914

BELGIUM

  • BELGIUM.
     

  • 1. .... and entered Belgium on the 18th by the north of Luxemburg ...

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 333-336. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up

AUGUST 20

1. JAGER-BATAILLON NR. 12

L'INVASION ALLEMANDE DANS LES PROVINCES
DE NAMUR ET DE LUXEMBOURG, 1921, LE COMBAT DE DINANT, p. 13

https://bel-memorial.org/books/04_quatrieme_partie_partie_1.pdf

AUGUST 21/22

  • A German raiding-party drove into Dinant on the night of 21/22 August but the attack degenerated into a fiasco, in which Germans may have fired at each other. Rather than assume that the small-arms fire had come from the French on the west bank, the Germans blamed Belgian civilians, killing seven and burning down 15–20 houses in reprisal. The raiders ran away, with 19 dead and 117 wounded ...

  • Night raid, 21/22 August A German raiding party mounted in motor vehicles attacked Dinant in the night of 21/22 August. German infantry and pioneers advanced from Ciney along the central road into Dinant, killed seven civilians and burned 15–20 houses. Members of the reconnaissance force claimed later that civilians had attacked them and civilians thought that it had been an attack by drunken soldiers.[2] A German soldier wrote later that they had been ordered to ... kill everyone and wipe off the map one part on the left bank [sic] of the Meuse!!! It was a tremendously (kolossal) honourable task and if successful, it would be famous for all time. — Private Kurt Rasch[2].

The party moved along rue Saint-Jacques in the dark and threw a hand grenade into a café, at which gunfire was opened; the party panicked and ran off, leaving 19 dead and 117 wounded. The foremost troops had reached the Meuse, where they were fired on from all sides; in the panic, Germans may have shot at each other but claimed later that revolvers and shotguns had been used by civilians (no survivors admitted to taking up arms). French soldiers held the bridge over the Meuse and had patrols in the town, which may have engaged the Germans in the rue Saint-Jacques and probably fired on the Germans at the river. In the aftermath the Germans took Dinant to be full of hostile civilians.[2] ...

  • Fires set by the Germans on the night raid of 21/22 August, provoked the flight of 2,500 inhabitants the next day ...

https://howlingpixel.com/wiki/Battle_of_Dinant

AUGUST 23, 1914

DINANT

2. It went into action on August 23 at Dinant ...

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 333-336. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up

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AUGUST 23, 1914 - AUGUST 24, 1914

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

23. INFANTERIE-DIVISION (Sächsisch)

BATTLE OF DINANT

23.08.–24.08.1914 Schlacht bei Dinant

[AUGUST 23, 1914 - AUGUST 24, 1914: Battle of Dinant]

 
23.08.1914 Dinant und Les Rivages

[AUGUST 23, 1914: Dinant and Rivages]

 

http://www.militaerpass.net/23id.htm -
German infantry divisions 1914–1918 at http://www.militaerpass.net/inf_div.htm

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GENERAL KARL LUCIUS

  • General Karl Lucius served Imperial Germany during the Great War as commander of a Royal Saxon Infantry Division. He replaced General Adolph von Carlowitz as commanding general the the Saxon XIXth Army Corps for the final three months prior to Armistice ...

02.08.1914 45. Infanterie-Brigade
20.03.1915 123. Infanterie-Division
21.05.1917 Generalleutnant
09.08.1918 XIX. Armeekorps (replaced Adolph von Carlowitz)

XII CORPS

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

46TH BRIGADE

KÖNIGLICHES SÄCHSISCHES 16. INFANTERIE-REGIMENT NR. 182
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1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

German 3rd Army Battle by Dinant 23 - 24 August 1914

XII Corps : General of Infantry d'Elsa

23rd Division : Generalleutnant Freinehrr von Lindenau

45th Brigade : Generalmajor Lucius

1/,2/,3/100th Grenadier Regiment

1/,2/,3/101st Grenadier Regiment

46th Brigade : Generalmajor von Watzdorff

1/,2/,3/108th Fusilier Regiment

1/,2/,3/182nd Infantry Regiment

Attached

12th Jäger Battalion

Cavalry :

1/,2/,4/,5/20t h Hussar Regiment

23rd Artillery Brigade : Generalmajor Zincke

1/12th Field Artillery Regiment (3 btrys, 4 - 77mm guns ea)

2/12th Field Artillery Regiment (3 btrys, 4 - 77mm guns ea)

1/48th Field Artillery Regiment (3 btrys, 4 - 77mm guns ea)

2/48th Field Artillery Regiment (3 btrys, 4 - 105mm howitzers ea)

4 Light Munition Columns

Support Troops

1st Company, 12th Pioneer Battalion

1st & 3rd Medical Companies

23rd Divisional Bridging Train

http://www.cgsc.edu/CARL/nafziger/914GHAP.pdf

AUGUST 23, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

DINANT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 23, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • DINANT [Belgium], 23 AUGUST, 1914 [Headquarters III Battalion]

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/447193 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1743, Edition 137

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/448005  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1744, Edition 137

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SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 1914

http://horizon14-18.eu/cimetiere-militaire-de-dinant.html

[Note: Attached Königliches Sächsisches 1. Jäger-Bataillon Nr.12 had attacked Dinant on August 15, 1914]

SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 1914

  • and Infantry Regiment 182 (IR 182), accompanied by artillery moved along rue Saint Jacques into the town just north of the bridge, where they were fired on by the French. The Germans killed male civilians during the day and at 5:30 p.m., 27 men were shot by IR 108 in the rue des Tanneries. The German troops barricaded streets with furniture and soldiers from IR 182 captured a man on suspicion of firing at them, although he was unarmed and tied him to a barricade as a human shield. When German artillery mistakenly bombarded the force, the man was shot before the Germans withdrew.

  • Immediately after crossing the Belgian frontier the XII. Army Corps had difficulties with the civilian population of Belgium, which reached their climax in and around Dinant ...

On August 21st the XII. (Ist Royal Saxon) Army Corps engaged in operations before Dinant ...

On August the 23rd the left bank of the Meuse was to be taken by the XII. Corps. After preliminary artillery fire the infantry advanced in the direction of Dinant — the 32nd Infantry Division to the north, the 23rd Infantry Division to the south. On the left wing the (Guards) Grenadier Regiment No. 100 forced its way into the town, on the right of them Infantry Regiment No. 180, and in close conjunction Rifle Regiment No. 108, whilst in the Leffe valley Infantry Regiment No. 178 reached Leffe ...

The Regiments No. 108 and No. 182 had similar experiences when they, to the north of the Guards Regiment, reached Dinant. From the moment they reached the most easterly houses they came under fire. The farm of Malais was stormed by the ist Battalion of the Rifles (Fusilier) Regiment No. 108, and the whole of the francs-tireurs who made a stand there were destroyed. Fighting hotly for every house, our men pressed forward in the direction of the market, all the time expecting to be fired at by invisible foes from cellars, caves, and hill-sides. It was here that, among others. Major Lommatzsch of Infantry Regiment No. 182 was fatally wounded by the bullets of two civilians  from the windows of a house. They even fired down from the cathedral (Apps. 12, 14, 18). Already in the course of the forenoon the Commanding Officer of the 46th Brigade recognised that it was impossible, without artillery bombardment, to gain the mastery over the fanatical population ...

 [Note: Georg Lommatzsch; Death: Aug. 23, 1914, Burial: Vladslo German Military Cemetery Diksmuide West Flanders (West-Vlaanderen), Belgium, Inscription: Oberstleutnant [lieutenant colonel]  - http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Lommatzsch&GSbyrel=in&GSdyrel
=in&GSob=n&GRid=36321350&

  • On 23 August, the Germans attacked Dinant again, under the impression that the town was full of francs-tireurs and massacred 674 unarmed Belgian civilians, while fighting the French dug in along the west bank and on the east end of the bridge. The massacre was a systematic attack on assumed civilian resisters and was the largest German atrocity perpetrated during the invasion, which became known as The Rape of Belgium ...

  • Occupation and massacres, 23 August

    At 4:50 a.m. on 23 August in a thick fog, 57 German artillery batteries began to bombard Dinant. Most of the 40th Division was sent south to Givet and Fumay, thence to cross the Meuse and attack the right flank of the Fifth Army, which reduced the attack on Dinant to XII Corps.[13] The 32nd Division (Major-General Horst von der Planitz) and the 23rd Reserve Division (Major-General Alexander von Larisch) crossed the Meuse on barges and pontoons at Leffe, north of the town and the 23rd Division (Major-General Karl von Lindemann) crossed to the south at Les Rivages.[2]

    The French I Corps had been moved north-west to reinforce X Corps (General Gilbert Desforges) at Arsimont, having been relieved by the 51st Reserve Division (Général de division René Boutegourd) and two brigades of the 2nd Division.[2] Four columns of the German 46th Infantry Brigade of the 23rd Division advanced into Dinant, against a regiment of the 51st Reserve Division and (allegedly) Belgian irregulars.[14] The northern column entered Leffe and the hamlet of Devant-Bouvignes, as two columns advanced into the Dinant town centre, along rue Saint-Jacques and a road down into Faubourg Saint-Nicolas and the Place d'Armes. The southern column attacked along the Froidvau road into Les Rivages. French troops on the west bank engaged the Germans with small-arms fire and artillery; the French also held both ends of the principal Dinant bridge and some advanced posts in the town centre.[2]

    Leffe was overlooked by an abbey and a factory and as Infantry Regiment 178 (IR 178) and Infantry Regiment 103 (IR 103) advanced into the area, they thought that civilians fired on them as well as the French from Bouvignes on the west bank. Three civilians were shot at the riverbank where they had fled from the soldiers, who later admitted that they had no idea if the victims had taken up arms. The 3rd Company of IR 178 was ordered to clear Leffe of francs-tireurs, who had supposedly fired at the Germans from a saw-mill.[15] Infantry Regiment 108 (IR 108) and Infantry Regiment 182 (IR 182), accompanied by artillery moved along rue Saint Jacques into the town just north of the bridge, where they were fired on by the French. The Germans killed male civilians during the day and at 5:30 p.m., 27 men were shot by IR 108 in the rue des Tanneries. The German troops barricaded streets with furniture and soldiers from IR 182 captured a man on suspicion of firing at them, although he was unarmed and tied him to a barricade as a human shield. When German artillery mistakenly bombarded the force, the man was shot before the Germans withdrew.[16]

    The Germans set fire to houses and by late afternoon the area was on fire; in Leffe and Saint-Jacques 312 civilians had been killed by the Germans. Near the town centre, Grenadier Regiment 100 entered Faubourg Saint-Nicolas, where they were fired on by French troops. The Germans had anticipated attacks by civilians, moved forward in two columns and as they reached a door they stopped, fired through windows and threw bombs into cellars. To cross the Place d'Armes, which was visible to the French across the river, the Germans used civilians as a human shield. Dinantais forced from houses were held at an iron works and the prison in the Place d'Armes. German soldiers on high ground outside the town fired on civilians in the prison courtyard for a time. In the late afternoon, 19 men at the ironworks were shot; the rest were taken to the Place d'Armes, being made to shout, "Long live Germany! Long live the Kaiser!" along the way. Soldiers of Grenadier Regiment 100 separated 137 men, lined them up against a garden wall and shot them, on the orders of Lieutenant-Colonel von Kielmannsegg, the I Battalion commander.[17][a]

    Grenadier Regiment 101 and the 3rd Pioneer Company entered Les Rivages during the afternoon, to build a pontoon bridge over the Meuse. The right bank narrows to a defile between the escarpment and the river, with only a road and one line of dwellings. The area was particularly exposed to French fire but for an hour no resistance was encountered. Houses were searched, hostages were taken and 40 metres (44 yd) of the bridge assembled. At about 5:00 p.m. several Germans working on the bridge were shot and killed and German soldiers later claimed that the shots came from francs-tireurs on both sides of the river, while Belgian civilians said they came from the French on the west bank. Some inhabitants of Dinant cheered the success of the French and the cliffs nearby created echoes, which made it difficult to judge the direction of fire. The unusual acoustics contributed to the German belief that they were attacked from behind by civilians, as they were being engaged by the French from Bourdon on the west bank.[19]

    A local magistrate was sent across the river to warn francs-tireurs, that the hostages would be shot if the firing continued. The magistrate returned, having been shot by the Germans on the way and said that only French soldiers were firing. After more gunfire, civilians were lined up against a wall and shot. Of the 77 victims, seven were men over 70, 38 were women or girls and 15 were children under 14 (seven being babies).[20] When the Grenadiers reached the west bank, they killed 86 civilians in Neffe; 23 were found hiding under a railway viaduct, where they were shot and 43 were taken to the east bank and shot there.[21] German attacks between Houx and Dinant were repulsed but the Germans got across the Meuse at Hastierès and pushed the 51st Division reservists back 2 km (1.2 mi) to Onhaye. Boutegourd called on I Corps for reinforcements and d'Esperey ordered the corps to reverse direction. Two battalions of the 8th Infantry Brigade were in reserve with an attached cavalry regiment and d'Esperey ordered the commander, Charles Mangin to rush to Dinant. The reinforcements met the remnants of the 51st Reserve Division, made a bayonet charge towards Onhaye, on the Philippeville road and established a blocking position east of Onhaye. With the 51st Reserve Division to the north, the 8th Infantry Brigade restricted the Germans to a bridgehead from Onhaye to Anhée.[22][23][24] Next day the French I Corps arrived from the Sambre to Dinant and contained the 3rd Army in bridgeheads on the west bank of the Meuse, as the Fifth Army retreated from the Sambre–Meuse angle.[25] ...

  • On 23 August, about 674 civilians were massacred, 1,200 houses were burned down and 400 people were deported to Germany and interned until November. This massacre was the largest of "The Rape of Belgium", which was instrumental in the US involvement in the war.[26] ...

SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

DINANT

FIRST CLASS PRIVATE JOHANN GEORG SÄRING

NÄUMANN

SCHWARZBACH

  • My name is Johann Georg Säring, I am 22 years old, a Lutheran, locksmith by trade, and a first class private in the twelfth company of Infantry Regiment No. 182.

On Sunday, August 23, 1914, at Dinant I observed during the forenoon the arm of a man protruding out of a first story window of the pharmacy ...

Read, approved, signed.

(Signed) Johann Georg Säring.

The witness was thereupon sworn.

(Signed) Näumann. (Signed) Schwarzbach.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

DINANT - MEUSE

LA MALMAISON

RESERVE FIRST CLASS PRIVATE KARL HERMAN EINAX

NÄUMANN

SCHWARZBACH

CAPTAIN BARON VON GREGORY

MAJOR LOMMATSCH, BATTALION COMMANDER,  16TH INFANTRY REGIMENT NO. 182

  • ANNEX C-18

La Malmaison, December 9, 1914.

Present: Military Court Councillor Näumann.

Military Court Clerk Schwarzbach.

In matters of investigation concerning the violations of international law committed against German troops first class private of reserve; Einax of the 11th company of infantry regiment No. 182 appeared and after being informed of the meaning of the oath testified as follows:

My name is Karl Hermann Einax, twenty-eight years of age, a Protestant, cooper by profession, first class private since November 21, 1914.

On Sunday, August 23, 1914, at 2 P. M., when we marched into Dinant, we were fired upon. It was found that the firing came from the other side of the Meuse. We then entered the houses and searched them. I saw that an elderly looking man with gray, unkempt hair, cams out of a house which our troops had entered, and shot at us. Major Lommatsch who was severely wounded died in the afternoon as the result of his injuries ...

Our Captain, Baron von Gregory, himself had entered the house from which the priest was brought out. The captain is in Freiberg at present.

Read, approved, signed.

(Signed) Karl Hermann Einax.

Witness was then sworn.

(Signed) Näumann. (Signed) Schwarzbach.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

DINANT

ERWIN MÜLLER

SERGEANT FEHRMANN

RESERVE ENGINEER KRETZSCHMANN

My name is Erwin Müller. I am twenty-six years of age, a Protestant and a fruit grower.

On August 25, 1914, in the afternoon Sergeant Fehrmann and I noticed the corpses of a number of male civilians and one woman lying outside a house in a cross street at Dinant. We entered the house. In the room to the right lay an officer, lieutenant of Infantry Regiment No. 182, a cushion below his head. His head and part of his chest were covered with a white cloth. Two soldiers lay on one side of him, and [p. 85] one soldier on the other. All three soldiers wore the uniform of regiment No. 182. In the adjoining room a sergeant and five soldiers of the same regiment lay likewise dead ...

Reserve Engineer Kretzschmann was in the house together with Fehrmann and myself ...

SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 1914

46TH INFANTRY BRIGADE

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

DINANT - MEUSE

  • C. App. 12.

Extract from the Reports of the Staff of the 46th Infantry Brigade and of Regiments Nos. 108 and 182 on the fighting at Dinant, August 23rd, 1914.

Staff of the 46th Infantry Brigade.

Towards 9 o'clock in the forenoon Regiment Nos. 108 and 182 reached the eastern slopes of the Meuse.

There now ensued a hot fight for the town of Dinant, which was defended by francs- tireurs ...

The commanders of the two regiments met in the marketplace. Since no decisive result was possible without artillery against the enemy who were concealed in houses, cellars, and caves, and who were even firing from the cathedral, they resolved to gradually evacuate the town ...

Both regimental commanders (of the 108th and 182nd Regiments) came to the conclusion that the Meuse could not be reached without the support of our artillery, and therefore ordered the return of the regiments at 3.30 in the afternoon. At 5 o'clock the bombardment of Dinant by our artillery began. On the following morning the brigade crossed the Meuse on the pontoon bridge at Leffe which was built by the 32nd Infantry Division, since it was impossible to march through burning Dinant.

Infantry Regiment No. 182.

During the advance of the regiment along the edge of a valley it received a continuous shrapnel fire from the western bank of the Meuse and infantry fire from the buildings and copses on the edge of the valley, causing losses. Captain Klotz, the leader of the machine-gun company, fell through a shot from above, apparently from one of the fortress-like watch-towers which stand there. Two battalions penetrated into Dinant and on towards the bridge, and received a detached fire from the houses and from the cliffs of the east bank, in numerous rocky caves of which francstireurs were hidden. At 5.30 in the evening the regiment stood again on the heights above Dinant while our artillery from the north furiously bombarded the town on both sides of the river.

In the evening and during the night enemy sharpshooters still continued to fire from the woods and buildings on the edge of the valley, which they had reached by passages in the rocks unknown to us, and into which they again disappeared.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

MAJOR LOMMATSCH, BATTALION COMMANDER,  16TH INFANTRY REGIMENT NO. 182

  • As to Case : On the Sorinnes-Dinant road the following occurrence took place in the part of the town of Dinant which hes on both sides of the road. I witnessed how two male civilians discharged pistol-shots at Major Lommatsch, Battalion Commander, 16th Infantry Regiment No. 182, from the first storey of a house standing directly on the road. Major Lommatsch immediately collapsed ...

SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

MAJOR-GENERAL FRANZ SAMUEL LUDWIG FRANCKE,
REGIMENTAL COMMANDER,  INFANTRY REGIMENT NO. 182

  • There appeared as witness Major-General Francke, who, after reference to the significance of the oath, was examined as follows :

As to Person : My name is Franz Samuel Ludwig Francke. I am 51 years old; Protestant; Major-General and Regimental Commander, Infantry Regiment No. 182 ...

Signed : Franz Francke ...

AUGUST 23, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

CORPORAL JOHANN GEORG SARING, 12TH COMPANY

MAJOR-GENERAL FRANZ SAMUEL LUDWIG FRANCKE,
REGIMENTAL COMMANDER,  INFANTRY REGIMENT NO. 182

  • In the investigation concerning the violation of international law committed against the German troops, there appeared as witness Corporal Saring, who, after reference to the significance of the oath, was examined as follows :

    My name is Johann Georg Saring. I am 22 years of age ; Protestant ; locksmith by trade ; corporal, 12th Company, Infantry Regiment No. 182.

    On the afternoon of Sunday the 23rd August, 1914, I saw in Dinant the arm of a man ... This man was taken to Colonel Francke, whilst the other civilians were detained in the corner of a house ...

    Signed: Johann Georg Saring ...

AUGUST 23, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

CAPTAIN PECHWELL 

  • The commander of the detachment asked for companies from Captain Pechwell, 3rd Company, Infantry Regiment No. 182, and proceeded with these to the position ordered ...

AUGUST 23, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

  • On the same day, according to his statement, a further batch of four civilians were shot because they had attacked a sentry of Infantry Regiment No. 182 ...

AUGUST 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

  • The company advanced with the pontoon waggons on the steep, narrow road into Dinant behind Rifle (Fusilier) Regiment No. 108 and Infantry Regiment No. 182 ...

AUGUST 23, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

  • We entered the house. In the room on the right there lay an officer—a lieutenant of Infantry Regiment No. 182—a sofa-cushion under his head ; his head and a part of his chest were covered with a white cloth. All three civilians wore the uniform of Infantry Regiment No. 182. In the adjoining room there lay stretched out dead a non-commissioned officer and five privates of the same regiment.

I lifted up the cloth covering the lieutenant and saw that he had received a shot in the head. I did not see any further injuries to the officer.

One of the privates who lay beside the lieutenant had his trousers unbuttoned in front so that one could see his body. This soldier had a shot in the lower part of the body. Extending from the larynx to at least 10 cm. to the left was a cut which was bloody and the edges were probably 1 cm. apart. The blood had flowed down towards the side. I am convinced that it could only have been a wound from a cut.

In the other room the trousers of one of the soldiers were unbuttoned so that one could see the body. This man had a cut or stab wound in the lower body about 3 cm. wide. The clothing of the remaining soldiers showed no disarrangement, they all bore shot-wounds.

The scene conveyed the impression that the officer, the non-commissioned officer and the men had been attacked in their sleep by the inhabitants in that quarter. I infer this from the fact that the officer had a sofa-cushion and the others either a cloth or a knapsack under their heads. The rifles stood in a corner ...

 

August 23, 1914 - IR 182

 

DATE?

  • The soldier was from the 12th Jäger Battalion ....

  • The men on whose evidence Loutalot based his story were Delling, IR 103 and Bieler, 12th Jäger Battalion ...

John N. Horne, Alan Kramer, German Atrocities 1914: A History Of Denial, 2001, p. ?

SUNDAY, AUGUST 23

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

DINANT

L'INVASION ALLEMANDE DANS LES PROVINCES
DE NAMUR ET DE LUXEMBOURG, 1921, LE COMBAT DE DINANT, p. 13

https://bel-memorial.org/books/04_quatrieme_partie_partie_1.pdf

MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1914

  • On 24 August, the area of Dinant south of the bridge, which had not been attacked on 23 August, was systematically burned down by the Germans.[20] Dinant was looted and German troops destroyed public and historic buildings, including the collegial church and the town hall. When IR 178 crossed the Meuse to Bouvignes, 31 villagers were killed and south of Dinant at Hastière-par-delà and Hastière-Lavaux, civilians were caught between Infantry Regiment 104 and Infantry Regiment 133 as they tried to cross the Meuse and French troops on the west bank. The Germans claimed that the civilians helped the French and 19 people, including two ten-year-olds from Hastière-par-delà, were killed and the village burned.[21] By 24 August, when the German advance resumed, the French had gone.[11][25] ...

  • The killings continued on 24 August, houses burned for days and lit up the countryside. A stench of corpses polluted the air as they decomposed in the sun.[20] ...

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AUGUST 30, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

VEDANCOURT [VADENCOURT]

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg 

REPORT OF OCTOBER 7, 1914

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

  • VEDANCOURT, 30 AUGUST, 1914 [Vadencourt- Aisne]

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/258705  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 7, 1914, Page 962, Edition 83

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  • Formed in October 1912 and garrisoned at Freiberg, it [Kgl. Sächs. 16. Infanterie-Regiment Nr.182, Germany's youngest peacetime infantry regiment] fought in 1914 with 23. Infanterie-Division / XII. Armeekorps on the Marne and subsequently held the line north of Reims ...

http://www.royalsaxonarmy.co.uk/royalsaxonarmy/index.php/
articles/26-a-teacher-in-the-trenches-ir-182-at-wytschaete-january-1916
A Teacher in the Trenches

SEPTEMBER 3, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

MOURMELON

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 7, 1914

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

  • MOURMELON [Marne - Southeast of Reims], 3 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/254308  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 7, 1914, Page 962, Edition 83

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SEPTEMBER 3, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

MOURMELON

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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SEPTEMBER 3, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

CHALONS

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 7, 1914

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

  • CHALONS [Marne - Southeast of Reims] (TRUPPENÜBUNGSPLATZ - PARADE GROUND), 3 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/254308  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 7, 1914, Page 962, Edition 83

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FRANCE: BATTLE OF THE MARNE

(September 5 - September 10, 1914)

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23  INFANTRY DIVISION

  • MARNE.

[1914]

... crossed the Meuse on the 24th, entered France on the 26th, went to the west of Chalons and took part in the battle of the Marne on September 7 at Sompuis (west of Vitry 'le Francois) ...

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 333-336. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up  

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AUGUST 23, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

DINANT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER  6, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • DINANT [Belgium] 23 AUGUST 1914 [Machine Gun Company]

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/221653 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 6, 1914, Page 908, Edition 78.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/221832 -  DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 6, 1914, Page 909, Edition 78.

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AUGUST 24, 1914 - AUGUST 27, 1914

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

23. INFANTERIE-DIVISION (Sächsisch)

INTERVENTION

24.08.–27.08.1914

 

 Eingreifen der 3. Armee in den Kampf der 2. Armee bei Namur in Richtung Mettet-Philippeville und anschließende Verfolgung in südwestlicher und südlicher Richtung bis an die Sormonne

[AUGUST 24, 1914 - AUGUST 27, 1914: Intervention of third Army in the battle of the second Army at Namur towards Mettet-Philippe Ville and subsequent persecution in a southwesterly and southerly direction up to the Sormonne]
24.08.1914 Rosée; Onhaye

[AUGUST 24, 1914: Rosée; Onhaye]
25.08.1914 Villers en Fagne, Fagnolie, Nismes

[AUGUST 25, 1914: Villers en Fagne, Fagnolie, Nismes]
26.08.1914 Rocroi, Rimogne, La Tremblois

[AUGUST 26, 1914: Rocroi, Rimogne, La Tremblois]

http://www.militaerpass.net/23id.htm -
German infantry divisions 1914–1918 at http://www.militaerpass.net/inf_div.htm

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AUGUST 27, 1914 - AUGUST 30, 1914

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

23. INFANTERIE-DIVISION (Sächsisch)

BATTLE OF THE MEUSE

27.08.–30.08.1914 Schlacht an der Maas und Verfolgung bis an die Aisne

[AUGUST 27, 1914 - AUGUST 30, 1914: Battle of the Meuse and tracking up to the Aisne]

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AUGUST 27, 1914

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

23. INFANTERIE-DIVISION (Sächsisch)

BATTLE OF THE MEUSE

LA TREMBLOIS, BLOMBAY, L'ECHELLE

27.08.1914 La Tremblois, Blombay, l'Echelle

[AUGUST 27, 1914: La Tremblois, Blombay, l'Echelle]

http://www.militaerpass.net/23id.htm -
German infantry divisions 1914–1918 at http://www.militaerpass.net/inf_div.htm

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AUGUST 29, 1914

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

23. INFANTERIE-DIVISION (Sächsisch)

BATTLE OF THE MEUSE

29.08.1914 Vieil-St. Remy, Novion-Porcien

[AUGUST 29, 1914: Vieil-St. Remy, Novion-Porcien]

http://www.militaerpass.net/23id.htm -
German infantry divisions 1914–1918 at http://www.militaerpass.net/inf_div.htm

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AUGUST 30, 1914

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

23. INFANTERIE-DIVISION (Sächsisch)

BATTLE OF THE MEUSE

30.08.1914 Rethel und Bertoncourt

[AUGUST 30, 1914: Rethel und Bertoncourt]

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AUGUST 30, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

RETHEL

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 17, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182 Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • RETHEL [Champagne-Ardenne - North East of Reims], 30 August, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/361527 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1439, Edition 116.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/364519  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1440, Edition 116

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/362995  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1441, Edition 116

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AUGUST 31, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 5, 1914

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

23. INFANTERIE-DIVISION (Sächsisch)

BATTLE OF THE AISNE

31.08.–05.09.1914 Schlacht an der Aisne und Verfolgung bis über die Marne

[AUGUST 31, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 5, 1914: Battle of the Aisne and tracking to over the Marne]

http://www.militaerpass.net/23id.htm -
German infantry divisions 1914–1918 at http://www.militaerpass.net/inf_div.htm

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AUGUST 31, 1914

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

23. INFANTERIE-DIVISION (Sächsisch)

BATTLE OF THE AISNE

31.08.1914 Biermes, Ménil-Annelles

[AUGUST 31, 1914: Biermes, Ménil-Annelles]

http://www.militaerpass.net/23id.htm -
German infantry divisions 1914–1918 at http://www.militaerpass.net/inf_div.htm

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AUGUST 31, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

SEUNEY

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 10, 1914

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

  • SEUNEY, 31 AUGUST, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/254308  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 10, 1914, Page 1111, Edition 93

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[SEPTEMBER ?], 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

SOMPUIS

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 17, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182 Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • SOMPUIS [Marne - South of Reims]

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/361527 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1439, Edition 116.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/364519  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1440, Edition 116

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/362995  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1441, Edition 116

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SEPTEMBER ?, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 17, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182 Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims]

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/361527 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1439, Edition 116.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/364519  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1440, Edition 116

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/362995  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1441, Edition 116

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SEPTEMBER 1, 1914

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

23. INFANTERIE-DIVISION (Sächsisch)

BATTLE OF THE AISNE

01.09.1914 Annelles, Ménil-Annelles, Pauvres

[SEPTEMBER 1, 1914: Annelles, Ménil-Annelles, Pauvres]

http://www.militaerpass.net/23id.htm -
German infantry divisions 1914–1918 at http://www.militaerpass.net/inf_div.htm

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SEPTEMBER 1 , 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

ANNELLES

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 23, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • ANNELLES [Ardennes - Champagne-Ardenne - Southeast of Reims], 1 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/447193 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1743, Edition 137

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/448005  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1744, Edition 137

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SEPTEMBER 2, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 3, 1914

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

23. INFANTERIE-DIVISION (Sächsisch)

BATTLE OF THE AISNE

02.09.–03.09.1914 Moronvilliers (Abteilung Franke der 23. Infanterie-Division)

[SEPTEMBER 2, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 3, 1914: Moronvilliers (Department Franke of the 23th Infantry Division)]

http://www.militaerpass.net/23id.htm -
German infantry divisions 1914–1918 at http://www.militaerpass.net/inf_div.htm

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SEPTEMBER 3, 1914

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

23. INFANTERIE-DIVISION (Sächsisch)

BATTLE OF THE AISNE

03.09.1914 Mourmelon (Abteilung Arnim der 23. Infanterie-Division)

[SEPTEMBER 3, 1914: Mourmelon (Department Arnim of the 23th Infantry Division]

http://www.militaerpass.net/23id.htm -
German infantry divisions 1914–1918 at http://www.militaerpass.net/inf_div.htm

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SEPTEMBER 3, 1914

BATTLE OF THE AISNE

MOURLMELON-LE-GRAND

 XIX. Armeekorps

KÖNIGLICHES SACHSISCHES 1. JAGER-BATAILLON NR. 12

  • Im kleinen Ort Mourmelon-le-Grand geriet das Bataillon in einen Hinterhalt, und der Vormarsch geriet ins Stocken. Unter erheblichen Verlusten wurde das Dorf eingenommen und gehalten. Nach Unterstützung durch die Kavallerie wurde die französischen Truppen zurückgedrängt. Der Vormarsch und die Vorbereitungen zur Marneschlacht gingen weiter. Am 26. September 1914 betrug die Gefechtsstärke des Bataillons nur noch 17 Offiziere und insgesamt 762 Unteroffiziere und Mannschaften. Die 2. Kompanie wurde abgezogen und als Vortrupp der Division nach Mourmelon gesandt ...
     

    • In the small town Mourmelon-le-Grand [Battle:September 3, 1914], the battalion fell into an ambush , and the advance came to a standstill . Under considerable losses the village was taken and held. After the support of the cavalry , the French troops were pushed back. The advance and the preparations for the Battle of the Marne went on. On 26 September 1914 was the combat strength of the battalion only 17 officers and 762 NCOs and men . The second Company was withdrawn and sent as a vanguard of the division after Mourmelon [Battle:September 3, 1914]

    • http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/1._K%C3%B6niglich_S%C3%A4chsisches_J%C3%A4ger-Bataillon_Nr._12

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SEPTEMBER 3, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 4, 1914

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

23. INFANTERIE-DIVISION (Sächsisch)

BATTLE OF THE AISNE

03.09.–04.09.1914 Livry

[SEPTEMBER 3, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 4, 1914: Livry]

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SEPTEMBER 6, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 10, 1914

THIRD ARMY

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

46TH BRIGADE

182 INFANTRY REGIMENT

BATTLE OF THE MARNE

http://www.militaerpass.net/23id.htm -
German infantry divisions 1914–1918 at http://www.militaerpass.net/inf_div.htm

  • Third Army: Generaloberst Max von Hausen

    • XII. Corps: Gen.d.Inf. Karl Ludwig d'Elsa

http://home.comcast.net/~jcviser/battles/ww1marne.htm

 

Max von Hausen's Third Army Hausen's Third Army corps commanders were: d'Elsa (XII) ...

http://home.comcast.net/~jcviser/battles/mediabattles/mapmarne.jpg

German 3rd Army
Battle by Fère - Champenoise
6 - 10 September 1914

XII Corps : General of Infantry d'Elsa

23rd Division : Generalleutnant Freinehrr von Lindenau

45th Brigade : Generalmajor Lucius

1/,2/,3/100th Grenadier Regiment

1/,2/,3/101st Grenadier Regiment

46th Brigade : Generalmajor von Watzdorff

1/,2/,3/108th Fusilier Regiment

1/,2/,3/182nd Infantry Regiment

Attached

12th Jäger Battalion

Cavalry :

1/,2/,4/,5/20t h Hussar Regiment

23rd Artillery Brigade : Generalmajor Zincke

1/12th Field Artillery Regiment (3 btrys, 4 - 77mm guns ea)

2/12th Field Artillery Regiment (3 btrys, 4 - 77mm guns ea)

1/48th Fiel d Artillery Regiment (3 btrys, 4 - 77mm guns ea)

2/48th Field Artillery Regiment (3 btrys, 4 - 105mm howitzers ea)

4 Light Munition Columns

Support Troops

1st Company, 12th Pioneer Battalion

1st & 3rd Medical Compaines

23rd Divisional Bridging Train

http://www.cgsc.edu/CARL/nafziger/914GIAG.pdf

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SEPTEMBER 6, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 11, 1914

BATTLE OF THE MARNE

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

23. INFANTERIE-DIVISION (Sächsisch)

06.09.–11.09.1914 Schlacht an der Marne

[SEPTEMBER 6, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 11, 1914: Battle of the Marne]

http://www.militaerpass.net/23id.htm -
German infantry divisions 1914–1918 at http://www.militaerpass.net/inf_div.htm

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SEPTEMBER 6 - SEPTEMBER 19, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

VITRY-LE-FRANCOIS

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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SEPTEMBER 7, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

VITRY-LE-FRANCOIS

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 11, 1914

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 SEPTEMBER 7, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

  • VITRY-LE-FRANCOIS [Marne] 7 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/281979  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 11, 1914, Page 1173, Edition 97 [Page 1174 does not list further companies]

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SEPTEMBER 7, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

VITRY-LE-FRANCOIS

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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SEPTEMBER 7 - 10, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

SOMPUIS

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER  6, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • SOMPUIS [Marne - South of Reims] - 7 to 10 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/222198  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 6, 1914, Page 908, Edition 79.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/221877 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 6, 1914, Page 909, Edition 79.

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SEPTEMBER 7 - 10, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

SOMPUIS

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER  6, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • SOMPUIS [Marne - South of Reims], 7 TO 10 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/221653 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 6, 1914, Page 908, Edition 78.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/221832 -  DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 6, 1914, Page 909, Edition 78.

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SEPTEMBER 7 - 10, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

SOMPUIS

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER  25, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • SOMPUIS [Marne - South of Reims] - 7, 9 AND 10 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/485669 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 25, 1914, Page 1846, Edition 144.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/509414  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 25, 1914, Page 1847, Edition 144.

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SEPTEMBER 7 and 10, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

VITRY-LE-FRANCOIS

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 10, 1914

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

  • VITRY-LE-FRANCOIS [Marne], 7 AND 10 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/254308  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 10, 1914, Page 1111, Edition 93

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SEPTEMBER 8, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

SOMPUIS

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF JANUARY 27, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

  • SOMPUIS  [Marne - South of Reims] - 8 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1357122 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, January 27, 1915, Page 4545, S. 99, Edition 344

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1356519 DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, January 27, 1915, Page 4546, S. 99, Edition 344

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SEPTEMBER 8, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

MOURMELON

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 21, 1914

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

  • MOURMELON [Marne - Southeast of Reims] 8 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/456846 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 21, 1914, Page 1626, Edition 129

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/425584 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 21, 1914, Page 1626, Edition 129

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SEPTEMBER 8 - 9, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

SOMPUIS

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF FEBRUARY 3, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

  • SOMPUIS [Marne - South of Reims] - SEPTEMBER 8 - 9, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1390508 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, February 3, 1915, Page 4667, S. 102, Edition 352

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SEPTEMBER 9, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 10, 1914

BATTLE OF THE MARNE

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

23. INFANTERIE-DIVISION (Sächsisch)

06.09.–10.09.1914 Maisons en Champagne westlich Vitry le François

[SEPTEMBER 9, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 10, 1914:Maisons en Champagne westlich Vitry le François

http://www.militaerpass.net/23id.htm -
German infantry divisions 1914–1918 at http://www.militaerpass.net/inf_div.htm

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SEPTEMBER 9, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

SOMPUIS

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 23, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • SOMPUIS [Marne - South of Reims], 9 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/447193 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1743, Edition 137

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/448005  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1744, Edition 137

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SEPTEMBER 9, 1914

SOMPUIS

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF JANUARY 23, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

  • SOMPUIS [Marne - South of Reims] - SEPTEMBER 9, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/439060 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, January 23, 1915, Page 4469, B. 141 - S. 97, Edition 338

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SEPTEMBER 10, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

SOMPUIS

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 23, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • SOMPUIS [Marne - South of Reims], 10 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/447193 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1743, Edition 137

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/448005  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1744, Edition 137

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SEPTEMBER 10, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

SOMPUIS

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF JANUARY 23, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

  • SOMPUIS [Marne - South of Reims] - SEPTEMBER 10, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/439060 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, January 23, 1915, Page 4469, B. 141 - S. 97, Edition 338

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SEPTEMBER 10, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

SOMPUIS

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 17, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182 Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • SOMPUIS [Marne - South of Reims], 10 September, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/361527 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1439, Edition 116.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/364519  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1440, Edition 116

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/362995  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1441, Edition 116

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SEPTEMBER 11, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

LE PIN

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 21, 1914

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

  • LEPIN [LE PIN] 11 SEPTEMBER, 1914 [Cyclist Company]

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/456846 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 21, 1914, Page 1626, Edition 129

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/425584 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 21, 1914, Page 1626, Edition 129

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 SEPTEMBER 11 - 12, 20, 26 AND 30, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

AUBERIVE SUR SUIPPES

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 21, 1914

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

  • AUBERIVE (Haute-Marne) SUR SUPPES [Suippes - Marne] 11, 12, 20, 26 AND 30 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/456846 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 21, 1914, Page 1626, Edition 129

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/425584 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 21, 1914, Page 1626, Edition 129

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 SEPTEMBER 12, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

ST HILAIRE

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 21, 1914

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

  • ST. HILAIRE [Aude] 12 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/456846 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 21, 1914, Page 1626, Edition 129

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/425584 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 21, 1914, Page 1626, Edition 129

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SEPTEMBER 12, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

MOURMĖLON

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF JANUARY 23, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

  • MOURMĖLON [Marme - Southeast of Reims]- SEPTEMBER 12, 1914 [Machine Gun Company]

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/439060 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, January 23, 1915, Page 4469, B. 141 - S. 97, Edition 338

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 SEPTEMBER 12, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

ST. HILAIRE-LE-GRAND

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 10, 1914

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

  • ST. HILAIRE-LE-GRAND  [Marne], 12 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/254308  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 10, 1914, Page 1111, Edition 93

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SEPTEMBER 12, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

ST. HILAIRE-LE-GRAND

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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SEPTEMBER 12, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

VITRY-LE-FRANCOIS

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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SEPTEMBER 12, 15 - 20, AND 26 , 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

SOMPUIS

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 17, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182 Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • SOMPUIS [Marne - South of Reims], 12, 15 to 20, and 26 September, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/361527 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1439, Edition 116.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/364519  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1440, Edition 116

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/362995  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1441, Edition 116

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(III)

FRANCE: THE FIRST BATTLE OF THE AISNE

(September 14 - September 27, 1914)

Return To Index

23  DIVISION

  • AINSE. [September 14, 1914 - September 27, 1914]

[1914]

3. The 23d Division, with the 2d [XII?] Army Corps, established itself in the area north-west of Rheims

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 333-336. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up 

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SEPTEMBER 14, 1914 - OCTOBER 16, 1915

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF MARCH 15, 1916

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1555012  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, March 15, 1916, Page 11637, S. 262 - w. 356, Edition 907

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SEPTEMBER 14, 17 - 18 AND 20, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

VITRY-LE-FRANCOIS

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 11, 1914

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

  • VITRY-LE-FRANCOIS [Marne] 7 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/281979  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 11, 1914, Page 1173, Edition 97 [Page 1174 does not list further companies]

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SEPTEMBER 14, 16, 18 - 19, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

AUBERIVE

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 10, 1914

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

  • AUBERIVE (Haute-Marne), 14, 16, 18 TO 19 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/254308  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 10, 1914, Page 1111, Edition 93

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SEPTEMBER 14, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 27, 1914

FIRST AISNE

XII CORPS

VII ARMY

  • Seventh Army: Generaloberst Josias von Heeringen

    • XII. Corps: Gen.d.Inf. Karl d'Elsa (from Third Army)

 http://home.comcast.net/~jcviser/battles/ww1aisne1.htm

http://home.comcast.net/~jcviser/battles/ww1aisne1.htm

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SEPTEMBER 15, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 28, 1914

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

23. INFANTERIE-DIVISION (Sächsisch)

FIGHTING ON THE AISNE

15.09.1914–28.08.1916 [sic] Kämpfe an der Aisne

[SEPTEMBER 15, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 28, 1914: Fighting on the Aisne]

http://www.militaerpass.net/23id.htm -
German infantry divisions 1914–1918 at http://www.militaerpass.net/inf_div.htm

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SEPTEMBER 15

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

23. INFANTERIE-DIVISION (Sächsisch)

BATTLE OF JUVINCOURT

15.09.–22.09.1914 Schlacht bei Juvincourt

[SEPTEMBER 15, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 22, 1914: Battle of Juvincourt]

http://www.militaerpass.net/23id.htm -
German infantry divisions 1914–1918 at http://www.militaerpass.net/inf_div.htm

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SEPTEMBER 15 - 16, 18 - 19, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER  6, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims], 15 TO 16, 18 TO 19 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/221653 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 6, 1914, Page 908, Edition 78.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/221832 -  DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 6, 1914, Page 909, Edition 78.

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SEPTEMBER 15 - 16, 18 - 19, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER  6, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims]- 15 TO 16, 18 TO 19 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/222198  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 6, 1914, Page 908, Edition 79.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/221877 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 6, 1914, Page 909, Edition 79.

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German Guard Corps
3rd Army
End of the Battle of the Marne
16 September 1914

XII Corps: General of Infantry d'Elsa

23rd Division: Generalleutnant Freinehrr von Lindenau

45th Brigade: Generalmajor Lucius

1/,2/,3/100th Grenadier Regiment

1/,2/,3/101st Grenadier Regiment

46th Brigade: Generalmajor von Watzdorff

1/,2/,3/108th Fusilier Regiment

1/,2/,3/182nd Infantry Regiment

Attached

12th Jäger Battalion

Cavalry:

1/,2/,4/,5/20th Hussar Regiment

23rd Artillery Brigade: Generalmajor Zincke

1/12th Field Artillery Regiment (3 btrys, 4-77mm guns ea)

2/12th Field Artillery Regiment (3 btrys, 4-77mm guns ea)

1/48th Field Artillery Regiment (3 btrys, 4-77mm guns ea)

2/48th Field Artillery Regiment (3 btrys, 4-105mm howitzers ea)

4 Light Munition Columns

Support Troops

1st Company, 12th Pioneer Battalion

1st & 3rd Medical Compaines

23rd Divisional Bridging Train

http://www.cgsc.edu/CARL/nafziger/914GIAC.pdf

 

SEPTEMBER 16 - 17, 21 - 23, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 17, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182 Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims], 16, 17, 21 to 23 September, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/361527 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1439, Edition 116.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/364519  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1440, Edition 116

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/362995  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1441, Edition 116

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SEPTEMBER 16, 20, 23 - 24, 1914 AND OCTOBER 1, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER  25, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims] - 16, 20 23 AND 24 SEPTEMBER AND 1 OCTOBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/485669 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 25, 1914, Page 1846, Edition 144.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/509414  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 25, 1914, Page 1847, Edition 144.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 1914

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

23. INFANTERIE-DIVISION (Sächsisch)

17.09.1914 Eroberung von La Ville aux Bois

[SEPTEMBER 17, 1914: Conquest of La Ville aux Bois]

http://www.militaerpass.net/23id.htm -
German infantry divisions 1914–1918 at http://www.militaerpass.net/inf_div.htm

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SEPTEMBER 17 - 18, 21 - 25 AND OCTOBER 4, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 23, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • 17 -18, 21 TO 25 SEPTEMBER AND 4 OCTOBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/447193 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1743, Edition 137

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/448005  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1744, Edition 137

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SEPTEMBER 17 - 18, 21, AND 27, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 17, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182 Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims], 17, 18, 21 and 27 September, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/361527 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1439, Edition 116.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/364519  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1440, Edition 116

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/362995  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1441, Edition 116

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SEPTEMBER 17, 19 - 20, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 17, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182 Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims], 17, 19 and 20 September, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/361527 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1439, Edition 116.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/364519  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1440, Edition 116

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/362995  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1441, Edition 116

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SEPTEMBER 17, 21 SEPTEMBER, 1914 AND 6 AND 8 OCTOBER, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER  25, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims] - 17, 21 SEPTEMBER, 6 AND 8 OCTOBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/485669 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 25, 1914, Page 1846, Edition 144.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/509414  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 25, 1914, Page 1847, Edition 144.

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SEPTEMBER 17 - 19, 23 - 24, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 17, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182 Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims], 17 to 19, 23 and 24 September, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/361527 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1439, Edition 116.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/364519  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1440, Edition 116

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/362995  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1441, Edition 116

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SEPTEMBER 17, 21 AND 26, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 17, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182 Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims], 17, 21, und 26 September, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/361527 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1439, Edition 116.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/364519  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1440, Edition 116

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/362995  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1441, Edition 116

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SEPTEMBER 17 - 26, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 17, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182 Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims], 17 to 26 September, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/361527 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1439, Edition 116.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/364519  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1440, Edition 116

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/362995  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1441, Edition 116

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SEPTEMBER 17 AND 26, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 17, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182 Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims], 17 and 26 September, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/361527 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1439, Edition 116.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/364519  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1440, Edition 116

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/362995  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1441, Edition 116

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SEPTEMBER 18, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

AUBĖRIVE

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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SEPTEMBER 19, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

AUBĖRIVE

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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SEPTEMBER 19, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

SOMPUIS

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 23, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • SOMPUIS [Marne - South of Reims], 19 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/447193 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1743, Edition 137

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/448005  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1744, Edition 137

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SEPTEMBER 19, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF SEPTEMBER 19, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/233772 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, September 19, 1914, Page 270, Edition 33

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/30650  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, September 19, 1914, Page 271, Edition 33

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SEPTEMBER 20. 26 - 27 AND 30, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

AUBERIVE

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 21, 1914

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

  • AUBERIVE (Haute-Marne) 20, 26, 27  und 30 SEPTEMBER. 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/456846 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 21, 1914, Page 1626, Edition 129

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/425584 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 21, 1914, Page 1626, Edition 129

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SEPTEMBER 21 AND 24 SEPTEMBER, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

SOUAIN

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 17, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182 Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • SOUAIN [Champagne-Ardenne - South East of Reims], 21 AND 24 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/361527 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1439, Edition 116.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/364519  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1440, Edition 116

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/362995  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1441, Edition 116

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 SEPTEMBER 21 AND 26, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

AUBERIVE

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 21, 1914

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

  • AUBERIVE (Haute-Marne), 21 AND 26 SEPTEMBER, 1914 [Cyclist Company]

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/456846 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 21, 1914, Page 1626, Edition 129

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/425584 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 21, 1914, Page 1626, Edition 129

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SEPTEMBER 22, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

AUBĖRIVE

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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 SEPTEMBER 22, 24 - 26, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 21, 1914

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

  • VITRY-LE-FRANCOIS [Marne] 22, 24, 25 AND 26 SEPTEMBER, 1914?]

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/456846 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 21, 1914, Page 1626, Edition 129

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/425584 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 21, 1914, Page 1626, Edition 129

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 SEPTEMBER 22, 24 - 26, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

AUBERIVE

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 21, 1914

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

  • AUBERIVE (Haute-Marne) 22, 24, 25 AND 26 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/456846 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 21, 1914, Page 1626, Edition 129

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/425584 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 21, 1914, Page 1626, Edition 129

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SEPTEMBER 24, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

AUBĖRIVE

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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 SEPTEMBER 24 AND 26, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

AUBERIVE

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 21, 1914

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

  • AUBERIVE (Haute-Marne) 24 AND 26 SEPTEMBER, 1914 [Cyclist Company]

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/456846 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 21, 1914, Page 1626, Edition 129

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/425584 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 21, 1914, Page 1626, Edition 129

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SEPTEMBER 26, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

LA TEMPLE-FERME

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF JANUARY 23, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

  • LA TEMPLE-FERME - SEPTEMBER 26, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/439060 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, January 23, 1915, Page 4469, B. 141 - S. 97, Edition 338

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SEPTEMBER 26, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

LA TEMPLE-FERME

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 17, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182 Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • LA TEMPLE-FERME, 26 September, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/361527 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1439, Edition 116.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/364519  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1440, Edition 116

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/362995  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1441, Edition 116

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SEPTEMBER 26, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

SOLDAT FRIEDRICH BÖHME - 8 KOMPAGNIE

LE TEMPLE FERME

Foto

Dienstgrad

Name

Vorname

Geburtsdatum & Ort

Todesdatum & Ort

Einheit

Bemerkungen

Persönliche Angaben
  Musketier BÖHME Friedrich 06.06.1893 Eisenach Fiel am 26.09.1914 im Gefecht bei Le Temple ferme.

[Fell on 26.09.1914 in the Battle of Le Temple ferme.]

 IR 182, 2.Ba   Dekorationsmaler, Sohn des Töpfers Wilhelm Böhme – Dohna bei Pirna

[Decorative painter, son of the potter Wilhelm Böhme - Dohna near Pirna]

 

http://www.denkmalprojekt.org/2010/eisenach_gb_wk1_A-G_thuer.htm

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/448005  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1744, Edition 137

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SEPTEMBER 26, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 17, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182 Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims], 26 September, 1914 [Machine Gun Company]

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/361527 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1439, Edition 116.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/364519  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1440, Edition 116

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/362995  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1441, Edition 116

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SEPTEMBER 26, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 23, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims], 26 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/447193 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1743, Edition 137

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/448005  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1744, Edition 137

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SEPTEMBER 26, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 23, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • 26 SEPTEMBER AND 3 OCTOBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/447193 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1743, Edition 137

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/448005  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1744, Edition 137

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SEPTEMBER 26, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

LA VILLE-AUX-BOIS

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER  25, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • LA VILLE-AUX-BOIS [Aisne, Picardie - South-East of Reims] - 26 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/485669 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 25, 1914, Page 1846, Edition 144.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/509414  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 25, 1914, Page 1847, Edition 144.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

AUBERIVE

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER  25, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg

  • AUBERIVE [Champagne-Ardenne - North of Dijon] - 26 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/509414  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 25, 1914, Page 1847, Edition 144.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

AUBĖRIVE

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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SEPTEMBER 26 - 27, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 23, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims], 26-27 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/447193 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1743, Edition 137

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/448005  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1744, Edition 137

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SEPTEMBER 26 AND 30, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

AUBERIVE

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 21, 1914

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

  • AUBERIVE (Haute-Marne), 26 AND 30 SEPTEMBER, 1914 [Machine Gun Company]

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/456846 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 21, 1914, Page 1626, Edition 129

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/425584 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 21, 1914, Page 1626, Edition 129

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 SEPTEMBER 26 and 30, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

AUBERIVE

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 21, 1914

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

  • AUBERIVE (Haute-Marne) 26 AND 30 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/456846 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 21, 1914, Page 1626, Edition 129

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/425584 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 21, 1914, Page 1626, Edition 129

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SEPTEMBER 26 AND OCTOBER 1, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 23, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims], 26 SEPTEMBER, 1 OCTOBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/447193 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1743, Edition 137

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/448005  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1744, Edition 137

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SEPTEMBER 26 AND OCTOBER 3, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 23, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • 26 SEPTEMBER AND 3 OCTOBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/447193 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1743, Edition 137

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/448005  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1744, Edition 137

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SEPTEMBER 27, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER  25, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims] - 27 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/485669 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 25, 1914, Page 1846, Edition 144.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/509414  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 25, 1914, Page 1847, Edition 144.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

AUBĖRIVE

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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SEPTEMBER 29, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

AUBĖRIVE

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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SEPTEMBER - DECEMBER

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

DECEMBER 13, 1914

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF DECEMBER  13, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg Und Trupp. üb. Blatz [Truppenübungsplatz]

  • SOMPUIS [Marne - South of Reims] - SEPTEMBER 10, 1914

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims] - DECEMBER 26, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1049393 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, December 13, 1914, Page 3628, S. 74, Edition 272

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1914

OCTOBER

THE BATTLE OF THE YSER

The Royal Saxon Jäger Battalion Nr. 12 was
engaged in bitter warfare over the Yser canal
  https://www.flickriver.com/photos/paranoid_womb/tags/j%C3%A4ger/

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1914

OCTOBER 31

POSSIBILITY THAT THIS IS F W KRAUSE

IR 182, IErsBati Oct 1914

1914 - 1916

POSSIBILITY THAT THIS IS F W KRAUSE: SECOND FROM RIGHT

Albert Schreiner: Middle Figure

On 2018-10-15 12:21:52 PM, Cole Henley .... wrote:

  • Hi Eric

    I was pointed in the direction of your research/website after correspondence with Andi Lucas. I am researching my great-grandfather who was in the 182 Infantry Regiment during the First World War until his injury late in 1916. His name was Albert Schreiner and I was wondering whether you had come across him in your research at all?

    From his lebenslauf he was in "Mach. Gen. Kom. Inf. Regt. 182, Freiberg" and achieved the rank of Offizierstellung in 1916 (although I gather this is technically not a rank as such). After recovery from his injury (Kieferdurchschuss - shot in the jaw), he apparently returned to the Western Front in the summer of 1918 with Inf. Regt. 101. In September 1918 he deserted from leave at Königsburck / Sa to return to Stuttgart and prepare for the Revolutions that took place across Germany on November 9th. After the revolution, he became Minister for War of the Free People's Republic of Wurttemberg and leader of the Soldier's Council there. He went on to become a prominent member of the KPD until fleeing Germany with his family in 1933.

    I have no records of his time in the military but do have a photo of him from the war (attached). I look forward to hearing if you had any further information on the regiment that might be of interest.

    Kind regards,

    Cole Henley

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    ALBERT H SCHREINER
    (August 7, 1892, Aglasterhausen, Mosbach (Baden) - August 4, 1979, Birlin)

     

  • Albert H. Schreiner                   Berlin, im Januar 1978
    1157 Berlin
    Rud. Große Str. 16

Lebenslauf
 

Herkommen: Am 7. August 1892 wurde ich in Aglasterhausen, Kreis Mosbach (Baden) geboren als viertes Kind von Franz Hermann Schreiner (6. 3. 1867 - Sept 1927) und Sophie Schreiner, geb. Merlock (27. 4. 1865 - 1940). ....
 
[p. 4]
 
Gesellenzeit und Militärjahre: ....
 
Im Oktober 1912 wurde ich zum Militärdienet eingezogen (Masch. Gew. Komp. inf. Regt. 182. Freiberg). Wenige Wochen vor Beendigung der aktiven Dienstzeit, im August 1914 wurden wir an die Westfront geschicht. Dort war ich bis 1917 im Frontdienst [p. 5] (einmal verwundet): 1917 - 1918 krank, Sommer 1918 noch einmal kurzer Fronteinsatzin Westen (Inf. Reg. 101) dienstgrad seit 1916 Offizier-Stellvertretor. .... Im September 1918 benutzte ich einen Urlaub von meinem GarnisonTruppenteil (Königebrück/Sa.) um nich endgültig von der Truppe zu entfernen .....

https://github.com/cole007/schreiner/blob/master/assets/schreiner.pdf , pp. 1, 4-5

  • Im Oktober 1912 zur Infanterie nach Freiberg eingezogen, erlebte Schreiner den Beginn des Ersten Weltkrieges als Soldat. Im August 1914 kam er an die Westfront und war bis 1917 im Frontdienst, seit 1916 als Offiziersstellvertreter. Im September 1918 verwundet, benutzte er seinen Urlaub, um sich von der Truppe zu entfernen. Am 13. September 1918 heiratete er Emma Hermann (1892-1973).

Ende Oktober 1918 wurde Schreiner Mitglied des Stuttgarter Arbeiter- und Soldatenrates. Am 5. November 1918 gab er dessen Zeitung heraus, die den Titel „Die Rote Fahne“ trug. ...

Mit Ausbruch der Revolution wurde Albert Schreiner Vorsitzender des Stuttgarter Arbeiter-und Soldatenrates, der ihn Ende November 1918 als Kriegsminister in die erste württembergische Revolutionsregierung berief. Er übte diese Funktion aber nur einen Tag aus. Im Dezember nahm er am ersten Reichsrätekongreß in Berlin teil und wurde Mitbegründer der KPD in Württemberg .....

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ALBERT SCHREINER

JANUARY 26, 1917

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg
[They appeared as an appendix to the Army Gazette
and were also published in the German Empire Gazette as well as the Prussian State Gazette]

REPORT OF JANUARY 26, 1917

DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE

  • Page Number 17340
    Ausgabe 1354
    Datum 1917-01-26
    Last name Schreiner
    First name Albert
    Ort Aglasterhausen, Baden
    Liste Sachsen 378

[Birth: 7.8.92; schwer verwundet - severely wounded; Offz. Stellv= Offizier Stellvertreter = Acting Officer]

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/5364217

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OCTOBER 1 , 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

LA VILLE-AUX-BOIS

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 23, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • LA VILLE-AUX-BOIS [Aisne, Picardie - South-East of Reims], 1 OCTOBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/447193 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1743, Edition 137

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/448005  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1744, Edition 137

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OCTOBER 1, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

AUBERIVE

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER  25, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg

  • AUBERVE [Champagne-Ardenne - North of Dijon] FOR SUIPPES [Marne - East of Reims] - 1 OCTOBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/509414  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 25, 1914, Page 1847, Edition 144.

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OCTOBER 2, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 23, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims], 2 OCTOBER, 1914

Page 1743, Edition 137

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/448005  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1744, Edition 137

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OCTOBER 4, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

AUBERIVE

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER  25, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg

  • AUBERIVE [Champagne-Ardenne - North of Dijon] - 4 OCTOBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/509414  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 25, 1914, Page 1847, Edition 144.

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OCTOBER 8 - 10, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

LA VILLE-AUX-BOIS

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER  25, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • LA VILLE-AUX-BOIS [Aisne, Picardie - South-East of Reims] - 8 AND 9 OCTOBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/485669 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 25, 1914, Page 1846, Edition 144.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/509414  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 25, 1914, Page 1847, Edition 144.

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NOVEMBER 6, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF NOVEMBER  6, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/124178 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, November 6, 1914, Page 2342, W. 52, Edition 178

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NOVEMBER 12, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

ST. ETIENNE

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF DECEMBER 2, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg

  • ST. ETIENNE [Massif Central - Southwest of Lyon] - 12 NOVEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1135607 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, December 2, 1914, Page 3231, S. 67, Edition 244.

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NOVEMBER, 15 - 16, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

AUBERIVE

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF DECEMBER 2, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg

  • AUBERIVE [Champagne-Ardenne - North of Dijon] -15 AND 16 NOVEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1135607 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, December 2, 1914, Page 3231, S. 67, Edition 244.

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NOVEMBER 17, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

AUBERIVE

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF DECEMBER 2, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg

  • AUBERIVE [Champagne-Ardenne - North of Dijon] -17 NOVEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1135607 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, December 2, 1914, Page 3231, S. 67, Edition 244.

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NOVEMBER 20, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF NOVEMBER 20, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

Berichtigungen Früherer Angaben

CORRECTIONS

  • 4. Kompagnie

    • names listed

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/767213 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, November 20, 1914, Page 2768, S. 58, Edition 210.

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NOVEMBER  24, 1914 TO DECEMBER 4, 1914

BISCHOFSWERDA AND FREIWALDAU

FRIEDRICH WILHELM KRAUSE

24/11/1914 - 30/11/1914 1. Ersatz-Batl. 16. Inf.- Regt. No. 182 1. Garn.-Komp: On Leave (beurlaubt) from November 24, 1914 to November 30, 1914, Bischofswerda
02/12/1914 - 04-12/1914 1. Ersatz-Batl. 16. Inf.- Regt. No. 182 1. Garn.-Komp: Home - Furlough from December 2 to December 4, Bischofswerda and  Freiwaldau

Note re Freiwaldau: Perhaps visiting his Grandmother, Maria Luise Krause (September 23, 1849 - September 3, 1932).

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DECEMBER 2, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 23, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims] - 2 DECEMBER, 1914 [Machine Gun Company]

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/447193 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1743, Edition 137

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/448005  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1744, Edition 137

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DECEMBER 10 - 16, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF JANUARY 7, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182. Freiberg und Truppenübungsplatz Königsbrück

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims] - DECEMBER 10 to 16, 1914

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims] - DECEMBER 10 to 16, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1181325 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, January 7, 1915, Page 4091, S. 87, Edition 308

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DECEMBER 12, 1914

        LIEUTENANT HANS WOLFGANG REINHARD [11 December 1888 – 6 October 1950]

  • 12.12.1914 Kompanie-Führer im Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182

    • Company leader in the Infantry Regiment No. 182

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DECEMBER 15 - 21, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF JANUARY 7, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182. Freiberg und Truppenübungsplatz Königsbrück

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims] - DECEMBER 15 to 21, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1181325 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, January 7, 1915, Page 4091, S. 87, Edition 308

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DECEMBER 21, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF JANUARY 7, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182. Freiberg und Truppenübungsplatz Königsbrück

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims] - DECEMBER 21, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1181325 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, January 7, 1915, Page 4091, S. 87, Edition 308

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DECEMBER 22, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

ST. ETIENNE ?

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF JANUARY 7, 1915

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

ST. ETIENNE ? [Massif Central - Southwest of Lyon]  - 22 DECEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1188281  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, January 7, 1915, Page 4094, S. 88, Edition 308

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1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

ROYAL SAXON, 16TH INFANTRY REGIMENT 182, 12TH COMPANY

1915

FRANCE (VERNON [?])

Fritz Gebelein

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JANUARY 1, 1915 - JULY, 1916

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

CRAONNE-BERRY AU BAC

  • AINSE. [1915 - July, 1916]

1. The division held the front from Craonne-Berry au Bac until July, 1916. In this sector the losses were very slight ...

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 333-336. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up  

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JANUARY 3, 1915

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF JANUARY 3, 1915

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/628320 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, January 3, 1915, Page 3985, S. 85 - W. 88, Edition 300

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JANUARY 6, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF JANUARY 23, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims] - JANUARY 6, 1915

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/439060 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, January 23, 1915, Page 4469, B. 141 - S. 97, Edition 338

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JANUARY 7, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

LA VILLE-AUX-BOIS

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF JANUARY 23, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

  • LA VILLE-AUX-BOIS [Aisne, Picardie - South-East of Reims] - JANUARY 7, 1915 [Machine Gun Company]

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/439060 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, January 23, 1915, Page 4469, B. 141 - S. 97, Edition 338

JANUARY 9, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF JANUARY 23, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims] - JANUARY 9, 1915

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/439060 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, January 23, 1915, Page 4469, B. 141 - S. 97, Edition 338

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JANUARY 16, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF FEBRUARY 3, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims] - JANUARY 16, 1915

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1390508 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, February 3, 1915, Page 4667, S. 102, Edition 352

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JANUARY 18, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

LA VILLE-AUX-BOIS

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF FEBRUARY 3, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

  • LA VILLE-AUX-BOIS  [Aisne, Picardie - South-East of Reims] - JANUARY 18, 1915

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1390508 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, February 3, 1915, Page 4667, S. 102, Edition 352

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JANUARY 20 - 21, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF FEBRUARY 3, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims] - JANUARY 20 - 21, 1915

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1390508 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, February 3, 1915, Page 4667, S. 102, Edition 352

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JANUARY 25-26, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

HURTEBISE

CHEMIN DES DAMES

Mais les combats des 25 et 26 janvier 1915 ont été particulièrement meurtriers : plus de 2 000 tués (au moins 850 Allemands, 1 000 à 1 500 Français, en comptant les blessés qui n’ont pas survécu à leurs blessures). De source allemande, 1 100 Français ont été faits prisonniers ...

Saxon troops belonging at the 32nd division of the Twelfth army ... I.R. 159 ... I.R. 182 ... Chemin des Dames ...

[NOTE: The 23rd Division, on mobilization, was a part of the 12th Army Corps with the 32d Division (2d Army,Von Hausen)]

http://www.chemindesdames.fr/photos_ftp/contenus/lettre_6.pdf

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JANUARY 25, 1915 - JANUARY 27, 1915

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

23. INFANTERIE-DIVISION (Sächsisch)

25.01.–27.01.1915 Gefecht bei Hurtebise

[JANUARY 25, 1915 - JANUARY 27, 1915: Battle of Hurtebise]

http://www.militaerpass.net/23id.htm -
German infantry divisions 1914–1918 at http://www.militaerpass.net/inf_div.htm

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FEBRUARY ?, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

BATTLE

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF MARCH 2, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

  • BATTLE - ?

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1563717 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, March 2, 1915, Page 5077, S. 114, Edition 383

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FEBRUARY 8, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

BATTLE

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF MARCH 2, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

  • BATTLE - February 8, 1915

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1563717 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, March 2, 1915, Page 5077, S. 114, Edition 383

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FEBRUARY 9 TO 7, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

BATTLE

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF MARCH 2, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

  • BATTLE - February 9 to 17, 1915

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1563717 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, March 2, 1915, Page 5077, S. 114, Edition 383

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FEBRUARY 11, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

BATTLE

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF MARCH 2, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

  • BATTLE - February 11, 1915

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1563717 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, March 2, 1915, Page 5077, S. 114, Edition 383

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FEBRUARY 15, 1915

        LIEUTENANT HANS WOLFGANG REINHARD [11 December 1888 – 6 October 1950]

  • 15.02.1915 Bataillons-Adjutant im Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182

    • Battalion adjutant in the Infantry Regiment No. 182

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FEBRUARY 24, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

BATTLE

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF MARCH 13, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

  • Gefecht 24. II 15. - BATTLE - FEBRUARY 24, 1915

  • Gestorben Infolge Krankheit - DIED DUE TO ILLNESS

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1682334 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, March 13, 1915, Page 5264, S. 119, Edition 400

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FEBRUARY 25, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

BATTLE

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF MARCH 2, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

  • BATTLE - February 25, 1915

  • BATTLE - February 25, 1915

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1563717 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, March 2, 1915, Page 5077, S. 114, Edition 383

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MARCH, 1915

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

RICHARD PAUL BEHR

BERRY-AU-BAC

(IV)

FRANCE: CHAMPAGNE

(March 1915 - c. September 1915)

Return To Index

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

182 INFANTRY REGIMENT

MARCH - 1915

CHAMPAGNE

AINSE

In March, 1915, some of its [23d Division] were in Champagne for a short time ....

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 333-336. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up  

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INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

APRIL 1, 1915 - JUNE 15, 1915:

245. Infanterie-Brigade / 123. Infanterie-Division

wiki-de.genealogy.net/IR_182

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INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUNE 15, 1915 - JUNE 25, 1915:

123. Infanterie-Division

wiki-de.genealogy.net/IR_182 

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INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUNE 26, 1915 - JULY 10, 1915:

245. Infanterie-Brigade / 117. Infanterie-Division

wiki-de.genealogy.net/IR_182

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INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JULY 11, 1915 - SEPTEMBER 8, 1916:

245. Infanterie-Brigade / 123. Infanterie-Division

wiki-de.genealogy.net/IR_182

AND

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

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123 DIVISION

123d DIVISION (1915 - 1916)

(INDEPENDENT DIVISION)

123 INFANTRY DIVISION (SAXON),
245TH INFANTRY BRIGADE,
16 ROYAL SAXON, 182 INFANTRY REGIMENT

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 620-622  - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up

Grenadier for " Royal Saxon 16th Infantry Regiment No. 182 " , the so-called " Freiberger

1915 and 1916 Battle of the Somme (Lightly Wounded: August 8, 1916)

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1915 -1916

123 INFANTRY DIVISION, 182 INFANTRY REGIMENT, 345 [45?] INFANTRY BRIGADE, 

 

Company 9, 3 fer

Feldpostbrief S.B. VIII KOMP. 182

"Foto 1917 Musiker vom Kgl. Sächs. 16. Infanterie Regiment Nr. 182 im 1 WK" - Error: the 182 was no with the 123 in 1917
"Photo 1917 Musicians from the Kgl. Sachs. 16. Infantry Regiment No. 182 in the 1 WK"

http://www.ebay.pl/itm/Foto-1917-Musiker-vom-Kgl-Sachs-16-Infanterie-Regiment-Nr-182-im-1-WK-/152368187039?hash=item2379da069f:g:FroAAOSwiDFYPtm2

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APRIL, 1915

123 INFANTRY DIVISION

186 INFANTRY REGIMENT

[1915]

AINSE

In April, the 182d Infantry Regiment was taken [from the 23 Division] for the 123d Division (a new formation) ...

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 333-336. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up  

123 INFANTRY DIVISION

BRIGADE 245

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 620-622 http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up

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APRIL, 1915

123 INFANTRY DIVISION

182 INFANTRY INVASION

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 620-622 http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up

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APRIL 1, 1915

123 INFANTRY DIVISION

182 INFANTRY REGIMENT

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FIRST HALF OF APRIL, 1915

123 INFANTRY DIVISION

ROZOY-SUR-SERRE

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APRIL 1, 1915

123 INFANTRY DIVISION

245 INFANTRY BRIGADE

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

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MID-APRIL, 1915

123 INFANTRY DIVISION

245 INFANTRY BRIGADE

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

AISNE REGION

APRIL 20, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

BATTLE

MAY 15, 1915

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF MAY 15, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182

  • BATTLE - APRIL 20, 1915

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1918915 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, May 15, 1915, Page 6379, S. 146, Edition 489

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APRIL 27, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

BATTLE

MAY 15, 1915

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF MAY 15, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182

  • BATTLE - APRIL 27

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1918915 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, May 15, 1915, Page 6379, S. 146, Edition 489

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APRIL 27, 1915

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

BERRY AU BEC

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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MAY, 1915

123 INFANTRY DIVISION

CHAMPAGNE

RHEIMS

CHAMPAGNE

1. In May, 1915, the 123d Division occupied the region northwest of Rheims ...

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 620-622 http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up

MAY 1, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

BATTLE

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF MAY 15, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182

  • BATTLE - I MAY, 1915

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1918915 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, May 15, 1915, Page 6379, S. 146, Edition 489

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MAY 1, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF MAY 1, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182. Berichtigung, Früherer Angaben

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1820939 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, May 1, 1915, Page 6180, S. 141, Edition 474

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END OF MAY MAY, 1915

123 INFANTRY DIVISION

LILLE

2. At the end of May it was transported to Lille, where it seems to have been transferred as a reserve ...

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 620-622 http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up

  • 123.ID soon moved to the Lille area in OHL reserve ....

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APRIL 27, 1915

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

BERRY AU BEC

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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MAY 30, 1915

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

BERRY AU BEC

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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MAY 31, 1915

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

BERRY AU BEC

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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 JUNE 8, 1915

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

BERRY AU BEC

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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MIDDLE OF JUNE, 1915

123 INFANTRY DIVISION

ARRAS

2. At the end of May it was transported to Lille, where it seems to have been transferred as a reserve; in the middle of June it was in the vicinity of Arras ...

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 620-622 http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up

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JUNE 23, 1915

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

BERRY AU BEC

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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JULY 6, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF JULY 6, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/2289047 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, July 6, 1915, Page 7434, B. 199 - S. 166, Edition 574

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JULY 17, 1915

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF JULY 17, 1915

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/2386881 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, July 17, 1915, Page 7675, B. 202 - S. 171, Edition 593

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/2414494  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, July 17, 1915, Page 7676, B. 202 - S. 171, Edition 593

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JULY 25, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF JULY 25, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/2517403 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, July 25, 1915, Page 7816, S. 174, Edition 605

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JULY 27, 1915

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

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REPORT OF JULY 27, 1915

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/2505397 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, July 27, 1915, Page 7860, S. 175, Edition 609

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AUGUST 5, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF AUGUST 5, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/499493 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, August 5, 1915, Page 8028, S. 178 - W. 235, Edition 623

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AUGUST 5, 1915

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

BERRY AU BEC

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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AUGUST 18 - AUGUST 19, 1915

182 INFANTRY REGIMENT

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AUGUST 27, 1915

123 INFANTRY DIVISION

182 INFANTRY REGIMENT

ARTOIS

 LENS (LORETTOHÖHE - LORETTO HEIGHTS)

West of Lens

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_I_memorials_and_cemeteries_in_Artois

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SEPTEMBER 11, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

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REPORT OF SEPTEMBER 11, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/2773597 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, September 11, 1915, Page 8713, S. 198, Edition 681

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SEPTEMBER 27, 1915

        LIEUTENANT HANS WOLFGANG REINHARD [11 December 1888 – 6 October 1950]

  • 27.09.1915 verwundet

    • wounded

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SEPTEMBER 28, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF SEPTEMBER 28, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/2580002 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, September 28, 1915, S. 199, Page 9063, Edition 709

SEPTEMBER 29, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

FRANCE: BATTLE OF SECOND ARTOIS

(c. September, 1915 - mid-October, 1915)

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123 INFANTRY DIVISION

3. It next occupied different sectors in Artois.
4. In September it held the Souchez front ... and left Artois in the middle of that month ...

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 620-622 http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up  

Fighting the Kaiser's War: The Saxons in Flanders 1914-1918, By Andrew Lucas, Jurgen Schmieschek, p. 89 - Souchez, September 1915

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Jäger Friedrich Wilhelm Krause
(By October 1, 1915 - c. December 21, 1917/February 11, 1918)

1915

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON

Taken sometime in 1915
Am 1.8.1916 aufgelöst.

Kgl. Sächs. 1. Jäger-Bataillon Nr.12
Divided reverse. No correspondence. Photogr. Max Seifert, Freiberg i/Sa.

During the Great War, the battalion suffered the following losses:

Officers: Killed / wounded: 19 / 35 Missing: 3 POW: 2

NCOs Killed / wounded: 105 / 250 Missing 10 POW:10

Jäger Killed / wounded: 775 / 2081 Missing 134 POW: 103

https://www.flickr.com/photos/drakegoodman/5750032383

The Saxon Jäger had a number of dress distinctions –
notably tunics of a darker green than the Prussian colour,
black facings instead of red and a black buffalo-hair plume buckled to the side of the shako.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/drakegoodman/6122227547

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OCTOBER 3, 1915

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

BERRY AU BEC

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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FRANCE: BATTLE OF LOOS

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Autumn, 1915

  • FAR 245 (123.ID), a unit known to have shelled the 9th East Surreys at St. Eloi in autumn 1915. This regiment was raised from the depots of my great-grandad’s FAR 48 in Dresden, and my display included the Militärpass of a fellow who served (among others) both with FAR 48 and with FAR 245 - including the period in question at St. Eloi ..

[123.ID ... was committed ... to] the murderous Souchez sector facing Notre Dame de Lorette and bore the brunt of the French offensive there on 25 September. Within four days IR 182 alone lost 39 officers and 1,250 NCOs and men killed, wounded or missing. Although himself wounded, Pache remained in action and became a company commander on 29 September as replacement for the slain Oltn. von Mücke of 8./182. From 30 September to 14 October his regiment was in Bereitschaft (immediate reserve) at Wingles, where it received large replacement drafts and began rebuilding. It then returned to Wytschaete, initially (like IR 178 and RIR 106) holding exactly the same sector as in July....

The small wood north of Wytschaete known to Pache as Bayernwald had many names. To the Flemish it was Kroonaard- or Croonaertbos, and accordingly Croonaert Wood to the British. They also knew it as Wood 40, referring like the French Bois Quarante to the height above sea level from which it dominated the terrain to the north and west ...

[Battle of Loos, September 25, 1915- October 14, 1915]

HILL 70

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Jagger_Cambrai.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Loos

OCTOBER

OCTOBER 8, 1915

123 INFANTRY DIVISION

OCTOBER 8, 1915

123 INFANTRY DIVISION

182 INFANTRY REGIMENT

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245 INFANTRY BRIGADE (Morgenstern–Döring)

This series of articles grew from material collected for two chapters, regarding a Saxon division which opposed the British 24th Division both at the Battle of Loos and subsequently at St Eloi in the Ypres Salient. Jürgen and I share a particular interest in the Royal Saxon Army, and we were able to provide additional insight from unpublished sources, including personal diaries and correspondence ...

After some thought, it was decided that the most immediately promising subject was the Royal Saxon 123rd Infantry Division (123 Inf Div). In Autumn 1915, two of its battalions played a critical part in the Battle of Loos, where they participated in the recapture of Hill 70 and the bloody repulse of the British 24th Division's assault (during which 9/East Surrey, on the British right flank, passed directly across their frontage);...

Several derive from an album (in Jürgen's collection) of over 200 photos by members of IR 178, covering the whole of 1915 and compiled with the approval of the regimental commander; with the exception of fifteen specifically censored pictures (depicting front–line positions, POWs, aircraft and artillery) the remainder were offered as postcards by a Dresden publisher for fifteen pfennigs each

This article then – the first in a series of three concerning 123 Inf Div on the Western Front in 1915 – briefly introduces the Royal Saxon Army and concisely describes the experiences of the division from its formation in April 1915 until the eve of the Anglo–French offensive on 25 September ...

'Triangularisation'
 
In Spring 1915, the Germans were reorganising their divisions on the basis of a single brigade of three infantry regiments (nine battalions) instead of the traditional two brigades of two regiments each (twelve battalions); establishments of battalions and companies remained initially unchanged, since many reserve divisions needed to be brought up to the 'active' standard of one machine-gun company per infantry regiment before any increase in that standard could be considered. This 'triangularisation' process produced a pool of 'surplus' regiments and brigade staffs, which were used to form the new (likewise 'triangular') divisions of the 'fifties' (50, 52, 54, 56 and 58) and 'hundreds' (101, 103, 105, 107–109, 113, 115, 117, 121 and 123) series. As far as artillery was concerned, the adoption, since December 1914, of the four–gun battery (instead of six) as standard in the field artillery provided a pool of men and materiel for the formation of one ('hundreds' series) or two ('fifties' series) new regiments (some highly heterogeneous) for each division.

In the Royal Saxon Army, this process produced 58 Infanterie–Division (from XIX Armeekorps and non–Saxon XIV Reservekorps) at the beginning of March, initially as a 'mixed' division containing Württemberg units but exclusively Saxon from January 1917. It was followed on 1 April by the purely Saxon 123 Infanterie-Division (from XII Armeekorps and XII Reservekorps). No further Saxon divisions would be formed until 1916; the under-trained 53 Reserve-Division and incomplete 19 Ersatz-Division would not be triangularised until 1917.

Formation
  
123 Infanterie–Division was assembled in the area around Rozoy-sur-Serre (17 miles northwest of Rethel) during the first half of April 1915. At its head was a newly-formed divisional staff under Generalmajor Karl Lucius, former commander of the elite 45 Infanterie-Brigade (Saxon Grenadiers) in 23 Infanterie–Division.

The 'new' 245 Infanterie-Brigade was headed by Generalmajor Max Morgenstern–Döring and his staff from the dissolved 64 Infanterie–Brigade, taken from 32 Inf Div together with 3 Kgl Sächs Infanterie-Regiment Nr 178 (IR 178), formed in April 1897 and garrisoned at Kamenz in north–eastern Saxony. The elite 23 Inf Div had donated its only line regiment, 16 Kgl Sächs Infanterie-Regiment Nr 182 (IR 182), the youngest and highest-numbered in the Prussian peacetime sequence, garrisoned since October 1912 at Freiberg in southern Saxony. Both regiments had been copiously replenished after severe losses in 1914 (which had seen IR 178 reduced to five officers and 493 ORs organised as two provisional companies), and had experienced no significant action since the German capture of Hurtebise and La Creute farms west of Craonne between 25 and 27 January. The 'new' brigade was completed by Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment Nr 106 (RIR 106), raised at mobilisation in the north–western towns of Glauchau, Wurzen and Borna and originally part of 24 Reserve-Division. They too had suffered heavily; on 26 September 1914 alone their 4 Kompanie lost all of its officers, whilst on the following day the regimental commander Oberstlt Graf von Mandesloh was shot through the arm and rendered hors de combat until November. Hundreds of replacements had arrived since October, but the arrival of 400 more as late as 6 May 1915 suggests that RIR 106 was still rebuilding when it joined the new division. Consequently the original differences between the two active regiments (mainly young conscripts and full–time soldiers) and the reserve regiment (overwhelmingly reservists in their late 20s or 30s) were already increasingly blurred, and would later disappear completely.

Upon arrival in the concentration area, all three regiments were dismayed to be rearmed with old 1888 commission rifles in place of the trusty 1898 Mausers they had left with their old divisions. The following week was spent in re-familiarisation and practice with the 'new' weapon; although normally serviceable, its Mannlicher–derived action would prove insufficiently robust in the appalling conditions at Souchez that autumn.

Initially the division possessed only one regiment of field artillery, Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr 245 (FAR 245), comprising one Abteilung each from Reserve-Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr 23 and 24 (XII Reservekorps); each Abteilung consisted of three, four-gun batteries, all with the standard 7.7 cm field gun. By Autumn 1915 this rather meagre force would gradually increase to a brigade of two regiments, including several 10.5 cm light field howitzer batteries. Like the rest of the 'independent' divisions of the 'fifties' and 'hundreds' series 123 Inf Div was also formed with organic heavy artillery (ordinarily a corps asset), specifically a battery of four 15 cm howitzers. This was 3 Battr/ Reserve-Fußartillerie-Bataillon Nr 19, the only divisional element taken from the Eastern Front (where its parent battalion was still engaged); in autumn 1915 it was redesignated Fußartillerie-Batterie Nr 123.

With the exception of the two squadrons of Kavallerie-Abteilung 123 (1 Eskadron/Kgl Sächs 1 Husaren–Regiment 'König Albert' Nr 18 and 5 Eskadron/Kgl Sächs 3 Husaren-Regiment Nr 20, both from XII Armeekorps), the division's remaining units all had new numbers. However the medical (Sanitäts) and supply (Train) formations were simply existing units renumbered. Engineering assets were limited, comprising a single field company (Pionier–Kompagnie Nr 245) and a searchlight platoon (Scheinwerferzug Nr 123); a second field company would be added in the Autumn.

Into the line

The new division first went into the line in mid-April to the left of XII Armeekorps, holding the still largely intact villages of Loivre and Courcy on the west bank of the Aisne-Marne Canal, two to three miles north of Reims. With observation from Fort de Brimont and the adjacent Batterie de Loivre, the German artillery was dominant; according to the regimental history of RIR 106, 'a couple of 21 cm howitzer rounds', fired at Reims sufficed to halt any French shelling, ensuring that this remained an extremely quiet sector. Regimental histories, photos and correspondence all depict this as an idyllic period, punctuated by bathing in the canal and inter–company football tournaments. Nevertheless, the regimental history of IR 178 lists fourteen dead for this tour, including illness and accidents; IR 182 lost three men dead, one officer and eight men wounded and one man with 'nervous shock'.

On 18-19 May 1915 this comfortable existence came to an abrupt end with designation as a 'fliegende division' and transportation to the Lille area, there to form a reserve for reinforcements and reliefs on the Flanders and Artois fronts. Here too life was still quite pleasant, with opportunities to catch up with family and friends in XIX Armeekorps. It was expected that, as part of the meagre German reserve in the West (efforts then being focused in the East), 123 Inf Div would be an object of major interest for Entente espionage. Consequently the regimental history of IR 178 – quartered in the suburb of Hellemes – describes numerous railway embarkation exercises leading to 'day trips' for training in the countryside, also intended to keep any spies guessing. For similar reasons there were frequent parades through the centre of Lille, with the regimental band playing and battalion flags flying. This was useful practice for the formal celebration of the King of Saxony's birthday on 25 May, and for an even grander exhibition of Saxon military pageantry on 12 June when the amiable monarch visited the city. In a contrastingly modern addition to the traditional pomp, the leading Saxon aviator Oberlt Max Immelmann gave an aerobatic display. At this time the future ace was still flying two-seaters, and had narrowly survived being shot down behind German lines on 3 June; by the end of 1915 he would gain fame flying the Fokker Eindecker as the 'Eagle of Lille'. Barely a year later he would be shot down and killed at Sallaumines on 18 June 1916, aged 25.

This parade also marked the end of the first period at Lille for IR 178. On 13 June it was transported to Loison near Lens, where RIR 106 had arrived the previous day. IR 182 and half of FAR 245 had already left the Lille area on the night of 6-7 June, but had travelled further south to Chauny as reinforcements for IX Armeekorps. The division would not be reunited until mid-July.

Facing the British

IR 178 and RIR 106 were now temporarily subordinated to the Silesian 117 Inf Div as relief for its own infantry, all 'fought out' as reinforcements in the major battle still raging on Vimy Ridge. Consequently the Saxons now held the front where the British would overrun the luckless Silesians on 25 September. IR 178 was on the left at Cité St Pierre holding the Double Crassier, and RIR 106 in the centre to the west and northwest of Loos. Following a brief rest at Lille from 23-25 June after their deployment at Chauny, which had cost them Fähnrich Jungandreas and 20 men dead, plus 65 wounded, IR 182 joined them on 26 June, to the right of RIR 106. [Note: On this date IR 182 joined Silesian 117 Inf Div until July 10, 1915]

This experience would later prove invaluable to the Saxons during the Battle of Loos. They now faced the British for the first time, although evidently seeing very little of them. In the front line they found 'model' trenches as yet unaffected by any experience of major fighting:

The position was well excavated in chalky soil, the trench walls extensively faced with wood; this later proved to result in the blocking of all traffic through the trenches when under heavy bombardment. In every platoon sector stood a basin of lime solution, in which the protective pad worn on the left shoulder was to be dipped in the event of an enemy gas attack. (2)

This rudimentary pad mask and (chlorine–neutralising) hyposulphite solution were still in front-line use at the Battle of Loos; despite the numerous shortcomings of their PH 'smoke helmets', the British would actually enjoy superior protection for their first gas attack. Issue of the advanced Gummimaske began in September, but was not complete on the Western Front until the winter.

In June 1915 the future battlefield was still quiet. For the first few days the Second Battle of Artois was still audibly and visibly raging on the heights further south. The only direct consequence in the Loos area was a modest increase in artillery fire when the French resumed their offensive on 16 June. After the unsuccessful attack at Aubers Ridge in May, the British gunners could ill afford to be lavish with ammunition, and little damage was inflicted.

The three Saxon regiments were relieved over the successive nights of 8-11 July by the Silesians and returned to Lille; the 123 Inf Div would now be deployed at the front together for the first time in two months. In the interim, the divisional artillery had been significantly reinforced. On 31 May Hptm Faber had arrived from the Saxon training ground at Königsbrück with a new III Abteilung for FAR 245, comprising two batteries (7 and 8) of 10.5 cm howitzers. However, until 23 July, when the I Abteilung and 8 Batterie returned from Chauny, the division remained badly under-gunned.

Over the successive nights of 13-16 July, the three infantry regiments replaced fellow Saxons of 53 Reserve-Division at St Eloi, where the latter had spent the past month anxiously awaiting a British attack which never came; they now returned to their usual sectors north of the Menin Road. First to arrive was IR 178 in the centre, followed by IR 182 on the left at Wytschaete and finally RIR 106 on the right at the Ypres-Comines Canal. 123 Inf Div now formed the extreme right flank of 6 Armee, facing the British for the second time; within a week it was relieved by Bavarians. This brief tour was chiefly memorable for a German mine detonation on 17 July; it is unlikely that the divisional engineers were seriously involved. The division would return to St Eloi after the Battle of Loos, when the three regiments would occupy exactly the same sub–sectors.

For the rest of the summer 123 Inf Div remained in OHL reserve in the Lille-Roubaix area, where the troops were kept busy with tactical exercises and working parties, resulting in a steady trickle of casualties, ten dead and thirty–nine wounded from IR 182 alone. These tasks took individual units further afield than in May, with IR 178 detached from 6-11 August to work on the defences as far south as Arras. However, there were also welcome opportunities for open-air bathing and sightseeing in the pretty Flemish towns in the rear areas. Best of all, home leave was finally granted to those who had been longest in the field – for the first time, at least in IR 178.

Wretched conditions

As noted earlier, the division suffered from a shortage of engineers, an endemic problem on the Western Front even before its formation. Since the onset of trench warfare the services of the Pioniere had been in unprecedented and overwhelming demand, and measures taken to address this in 123 Inf Div were typical. During the summer each infantry regiment sent a contingent (from IR 178: 3 officers and 125 ORs) to Hem for a three-week training course conducted by Pionier-Kompagnie 245. Upon their return each contingent formed a quasi–official regimental 'Infanterie Pionier Kompagnie', semi-skilled 'pioneers' (in the British sense) who worked under Pionier (engineer) direction. This stop-gap system would be phased out in the first half of 1916 – by which time such formerly specialist skills as construction of field fortifications and use of hand grenades had been promulgated throughout the infantry, whilst provision of actual Pioniere and of unarmed labour units had greatly increased.

During the night of 11-12 August, RIR 106 temporarily held the devastated Vimy sector opposite Neuville St Vaast, where the French onslaught had ground to a bloody halt in late July; it relieved Saxon IR 134 'borrowed' from XIX Armeekorps earlier that summer. During the night of 18-19 August, RIR 106 was relieved by IR 182, in turn relieved during the night of 23-24 August, and returned to Roubaix; for two days (24-25 August) IR 178 was also attached to 11 Inf Div/VI Armeekorps near Vimy.

On 26 August, the entire division was assembled at Lens, where it was subordinated to the Prussian IV Armeekorps from 'Prussian Saxony', mostly former Saxon territory annexed after the Napoleonic Wars. At this time IV Armeekorps held the front from Souchez in the south to Hulluch in the north, with (south to north) its own 8 and 7 Inf Div and the aforementioned 117 Inf Div. Heavily engaged against the final French push in late July, 8 Inf Div was in serious need of rest and was relieved by the Saxons during the course of 26-27 August, it replaced them as OHL reserve at Douai. The resulting divisional dispositions remained unchanged until the Battle of Loos.

123 Inf Div had seen virtually no action since its formation, and many of the men had never fought in an actual battle; the regimental history of IR 178 lists a total of 'only' twenty dead for the entire period between 1 April and 26 August 1915. Now their luck had run out, for the new sector would have been one of the worst on the Western Front even without the threat of an impending offensive. The loss of Ablain and Carency to the French in the previous battle meant that the front line around Souchez now constituted a precarious salient on dangerously low ground, under clear observation from multiple sides – most acutely, from the commanding heights of the Lorettohöhe, better known perhaps as Notre Dame de Lorette. This tenuous position was anchored by German possession of the Giesslerhöhe, a long wooded hill between Souchez and Givenchy which constituted the only remaining high ground between the front and the vital communications hub of Lens, where corps and divisional headquarters were located. Thus there was no question of voluntarily ceding any ground here, even though traffic between front and rear was suicidal by day and fraught with peril by night; the approach routes for all regimental sectors ran along the valley of the Souchez stream from Angres, clearly overlooked from the heights to the southwest. This ran diagonal or roughly parallel to the front, so that IR 178 (in the centre) and IR 182 (on the left) had to pass uncomfortably close behind their neighbour's front line – often over open ground – to reach their own. The trenches had been hastily constructed in battle and maintained with extreme difficulty under constant artillery harassment, so that there was no proper system of successive defensive lines and not even one continuous line along the entire divisional frontage. Only a proportion of the wretched dug-outs were proof against the lightest artillery fire, and many trenches lacked even the basic protection of traverses; effective wire obstacles were largely absent.

The divisional front was narrow, with each regimental sector held by a single battalion; regiments operated a three-day cycle of battalion reliefs between the front line, support and rest in the Lens area. RIR 106 on the right was in the least invidious position; as well as the safest approach route to their rear, they had the widest stretch of no man's land to their front and the 'luxury' of telephone cables that ran as far as the front line. In the centre IR 178, holding the Hexenkessel ('witches' cauldron', the name of several dangerous spots on the Western Front) and the Torgauer Graben, was mostly 80-150 metres from the enemy, dwindling to as little as 30 metres at two places marked by incessant hand grenade exchanges. By far the worst off was IR 182 on the western edge of the ruins of Souchez; the opposing lines were uncomfortably close and the ground especially wet, tending towards outright swamp in the south. A front-line tour here was a scarcely imaginable 72-hour ordeal, standing in waist–high water or crouching on sandbag islands, constantly tormented by the merciless attentions of bombing parties, snipers and artillery observers.

The Saxons knew that a major offensive was imminent, and that the armies in the west would have to withstand it with minimal reserves. From mid-September the French bombardment steadily increased, while aircraft roamed largely unmolested over the German hinterland directing artillery and dropping bombs. Consequently the division worked feverishly to improve inadequate defences with vast numbers of sandbags brought up nightly from the Pionierpark at the Angres crossroads. A major construction effort was required every night merely to rectify the damage inflicted during the day; somehow, however, a continuous front line was established, except in the swamp on the far left.

The main Allied bombardment began on 20 September, increasing to overwhelming 'drum fire' on 24 September. By this time the date of the offensive had been discovered from a deserter and, in accordance with contemporary doctrine, the front line packed with troops; probing attacks on 24 September were easily repelled. Little did the Saxons suspect that the following day would bring not only the anticipated frontal assault, but also a breakthrough further north which would threaten their rear in Lens – and pit them simultaneously against the British and French Armies ...

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Bibliography Unpublished Sources ...

Pache Oberleutnant d.R. a.D. Alexander Das Kgl. Sächs. 16. Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182 ...Pache: History Infantry Regiment 182 pp 101–102 [Prof. Dr. phil. Alexander Pache, also known as Alfred was born on 31st December 1878 in Steinigtwolmsdorf near Bautzen.]

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OCTOBER 19, 1915

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1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

BERRY AU BEC

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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BELGIUM: FLANDERS

(November, 1915 - July 5, 1916)

Return To Index

5. ... the division went to Flanders (November), where it held a sector south of the canal from Ypres to Comines ...

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 620-622 http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up \

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NOVEMBER, 1915

123 INFANTRY REGIMENT

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NOVEMBER 10, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF NOVEMBER 10, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1458344 -  DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, November 10, 1915, Page 10029, S. 223 - W. 296, Edition 780

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NOVEMBER 11, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF NOVEMBER 11, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/2963435 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, November 11, 1915, Nr. 377 - S. 223, Page 10061, Edition 782.

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November 18, 1915

Namen der Gefallenen:

1. Weltkrieg:

Dienstgrad

Name

Vorname

Todesdatum & Ort

Einheit

Bemerkungen
Soldat SPARSCHUH Kurt Erich 18.11.1915 Comines in Belgien 16. IR 182 Artillerietreffer in Unterkunft

Limbach-Oberfrohna (OT Kändler), Landkreis Zwickau, Sachsen: - http://www.denkmalprojekt.org/dkm_deutschland/limbach-oberfrohna_
kaendler_7jk_1870-71_wk1_sachs.htm

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NOVEMBER 23, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF NOVEMBER 23, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/3374261 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, November 23, 1915, Page 10329, S. 288, Edition 802.

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NOVEMBER 28, 1915

        LIEUTENANT HANS WOLFGANG REINHARD [11 December 1888 – 6 October 1950]

 

DECEMBER 6, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF DECEMBER 6, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182 [12 Company - complete?]

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/2923521 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, December 6, 1915, Page 10577, B 239 - S 233, Edition 822

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DECEMBER 18, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF DECEMBER 6, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182 [12 Company - complete?]

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/3332563 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, December 18, 1915, Page 10762, S. 238, Edition 835.

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WYTSCHAETE

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Above: A cramped dugout entrance in the IR 182 trenches.
Note the use of sandbags made from patterned civilian fabrics, common in the first winter in the trenches but far less so by the end of 1915.

Above: British Blindgänger (duds) collected in the IR 182 trenches in winter 1915-16.
[Person with beard possibly same one standing next to F W Krause, later, in 1918]

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1916

Soldaten Infanterie Regiment 182 Freiberg mit Offiziere, Handgranaten 1916

https://picclick.de/Soldaten-Infanterie-Regiment-182-Freiberg-
mit-Offiziere-Handgranaten-362415134474.html

123 INFANTRY DIVISION

BRIGADE 245

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 620-622 http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up

1916

JANUARY

 

  • Above: Trench map of Wytschaete from the regimental history of Saxon IR 179 (24.ID), which took over the marked sector in November 1916. In January 1916 the sector assigned to IR 182 extended from the red dot-dash line at the western end of Bayernald southwards and westwards as far as Dingelreiterhof and Markwald (Petit Bois, hidden under the map key). This line was held by two battalions abreast, each with three companies in line and one in immediate reserve. After IR 182 left in March ....

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German 2nd army
1 July 1916

245th Brigade
          178th Infantry Regiment
                    1 Machine Regiment

182nd Infantry Regiment
           1 Machine Gun Company
           195th Machine Gun Sharpshooter Troop

106th Reserve Regiment
          1 Machine Gun Company

Organization of German Divisions 1916, p. 63 - http://carl.army.mil/nafziger/916GXIA.pdf

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JANUARY 15, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF JANUARY 15, 1916

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/3400044 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, January 15, 1916, Page 11026, S. 244, Edition 857

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JANUARY 18, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

BERRY AU BEC

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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JANUARY 28, 1916

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JANUARY 31, 1916

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF JANUARY 31, 1916

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/3570176 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, January 31, 1916, Page 11168, S. 249, Edition 869

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FEBRUARY 10, 1916

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF FEBRUARY 10, 1916

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/2760761 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, February 10, 1916, Page 11280, S. 252, Edition 878

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1538830 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, February 10, 1916, Page 11281, S. 252, Edition 878

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FEBRUARY 15, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF FEBRUARY 15, 1916

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/3449687  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, February 15, 1916, Page 11326, S. 253, Edition 882

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FEBRUARY 19, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF FBRUARY 19, 1916

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/3470078 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, February 19, 1916, Page 11372, S. 255, Edition 886

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FEBRUARY 27, 1916

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

NOTE ACCORDING TO THE BOOK:  Teacher In The Trenches

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/3463479

Above: Field Kitchen (Feldkuche or colloquially Gulaschkanone) of IR 182
on an unknown front, taken from the same photo group as the preceding pictures from Messines.

1. In the middle of March, 1916, the 123d Division was put at rest near Bruges.
2. It was temporarily in line about April 9 at St. Eloi; then remained as a reserve to the armies in the vicinity of Menin and Courtrai until July 5 ...

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 620-622 http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up

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MARCH 2, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF MARCH 2, 1916

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12

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  • 1. Kompagnie

    • names listed

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1549042  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, March 2, 1916, Page 11498, S. 258 - W. 350, Edition 896

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MARCH 9, 1916

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF MARCH 9, 1916

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/3519437 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, March 9, 1916, Page 11570, S. 261, Edition 902

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MARCH 15, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF MARCH 15, 1916

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1555012  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, March 15, 1916, Page 11637, S. 262 - w. 356, Edition 907

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MARCH 17, 1916

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF MARCH 17, 1916

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF MARCH 28, 1916

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/3735031 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, March 28, 1916, Page 11785, Nr. 491 - S. 266, Edition 918

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APRIL=- MAY, 1916

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182

  • Meanwhile the infantry regiments of the 123. ID were in quarters south of Bruges in 4. Armee reserve; due to the attack their rifle companies were placed at the disposal of 46. Reserve-Division on 3 April and returned to their previous rear area. Here they were mainly employed for several weeks in constructing new defences behind the '1B' line, and incurred significant losses from artillery fire. II./IR 182 however was put back into the front line from 3 to 9 April; their commander Hptm. Max Bunde was awarded the MStHO(R) on 12 May, having remained at his post throughout although wounded. After the successful counter-attack at the craters on 6 April by RIR 216, RIR 106 was used to relieve RIR 215 in the left flank sector (8-25 April) and did not rejoin 123, ID until 22 May ... [MStHO(R) is the Military St. Henry Order or Militär-St. Heinrichs-Orden]

On 20 May, 4. Armee decreed that XXIII. RK would have continued use of one battalion from the division (II./IR 182, then I. and II./RIR 106) on a fortnightly relief cycle. From 25 May a further battalion (II./IR 178 until 5 June, then III./RIR 106 until 24 June) served in the front line with 4. Ersatz-Division, facing the inundations near Woumen south of Diksmuide (see map on p. 124). IR 178 was reunited at Kortriik on 5 June at the disposal  of XII. AK, leading to dangerous working parties on the Menin Road. During this period the elements in reserve south of Bruges were fully occupied with tactical exercises an the training of newly arrived placements ...

On 27 June the reassembled division was placed on alert to entrain at six hours' notice. The fateful order came on 5 July, and the division departed for Cambrai to take part in the Battle of the Somme ....

Yser, Dixmude, Woumen

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89
/Yser_inundations_and_western_approaches_to_Houthoulst_Forest%2C_1914.jpg

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APRIL 6, 1916

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF APRIL 6, 1916

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/3443377 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, April 6, 1916, Page 11929, S. 269, Edition 930

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APRIL 17, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF APRIL 17, 1916

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/3699091  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, April 17, 1916, Page 12094, S. 273, Edition 944

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APRIL 27, 1916

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

AGUILCOURT

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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MAY, 1916

RUDDERVOORDE

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1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

MAY, 1916

MARLE, AISNE, WEST FLANDERS

Eight Soldiers of the Jäger - Bataillon Nr. 12 (Saxon) are photographed
standing in front of the
Salle de lecture Librairie at Marle near Vervins, May 1916.

(Deutsche Lese Halle - German Reading Halle - A. Cury, Owner)

https://twitter.com/foxton44/status/1276590537743761408/photo/1

 

MAY 2, 1916

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF MAY 2, 1916

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/3827692 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, May 2, 1916, Page 12285, Br. 519 - S. 276, Edition 959

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MAY 8, 1916

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF MAY 8, 1916

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/3806786 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE. May 8, 1916, Page 12374, S. 278, Edition 966.

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MAY 16, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF MAY 16, 1916

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/3490385  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, May 16, 1916, Page 12525, B. 267 - S. 282, Edition 980

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JUNE 11, 1916

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182

WHITSUN

Pfingsten in Flanders 1916

A group of friends from Infanterie-Regiment 182 and an unidentified
non-Saxon unit celebrate Whitsun, which fell on 11 June 1916

Andrew Lucas, Jurgen Schmieschek, Fighting the Kaiser's War: The Saxons in Flanders 1914-1918, p. 99 - The Year 1916. 123. INFANTERIE-DIVISION - https://books.google.ca/books?isbn=1473848008

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JUNE 12, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

LA VILLE AUX BOIS

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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(VIII)

FRANCE: SOMME

(July 5, 1916 - July 22, 1916)

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SUMMER, 1916

JULY 5, 1916 - JULY 22, 1916

123 INFANTRY DIVISION

SOMME

TRÔNES WOOD

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_Montauban

[Trônes Wood lies to the north-east of Montauban]

Somme : la prise du Bois des Trônes

– Suite à la contre-attaque manquée de von Stein et von Kehl contre Montauban le 2 juillet, von Falkenhayn décide d’envoyer des renforts à la II. Armee afin de tenir le front de la Somme. Par conséquent, le Gossler-Gruppe (123. ID, avec des éléments des 11. et 12. RD) est envoyé d’urgence renforcer le secteur de Longueval.

At this date [July 5, 1916) it was transferred to the Somme and fought near Hardecourt and Maurepas until July 22, losing more than 6,000 men ...

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 620-622 http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up

JULY 5, 1916

123 INFANTRY DIVISION

BATTLE OF THE SOMME

JULY 7, 1916

JULY 8, 1916 - JULY 9, 1916

123 INFANTRY DIVISION

II BATTALION, INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

BATTLE OF THE SOMME

TRÔNES WOOD

« Z-Day ». Le 6 juillet, Henry Rawlinson et Emile Fayolle se retrouvent pour dresser les plans d’attaque. L’attaque doit donc s’effectuer le 8 juillet, en coopération avec le XXe Corps Français. Recevant ses ordres, Congreve ordonne à la 30th Division de Stanley, déjà éprouvée lors du « Z-Day », de s’emparer du Bois des Trônes. La 30th Divsion doit agir de concert avec la 39e DI française du Général Nourrisson, l’objectif et jointure des deux divisions étant la Ferme « Maltz Horn ». Du côté allemand, ce sont les RIR. Nr 38 et 51 (12. RD) et les restes de l’IR. Nr. 62. Et les premiers éléments de la 123. ID (Karl Lucius) arrivent dans le secteur de Guillemont dans la matinée du 8 juillet ...

Mais le II/Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 183 arrive en renfort depuis le secteur de Ginchy – ....

JULY 9, 1916

123 INFANTRY DIVISION

II BATTALION, INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

BATTLE OF THE SOMME

TRÔNES WOOD

JULY 9 - 16, 1916

  • Together with his company Ltn. Pache distinguished himself in the battle of the Somme by outstanding courage in the fierce, bloody fighting for the possession of Trônes Wood in the sector of 12. Reserve-Division during the days 10 to 16 July 1916. After II. Batl. / Inf.-Regt. 182 had taken the wood in a magnificent assault on 9 July, it had to repel an extremely strong English counterattack which was pressed home following the strongest drumfire. The Englishmen who broke into the wood were thrown out again by Ltn. Pache after heavy, dogged single combat. Numerous prisoners were taken and the entire position held. It is only thanks to the valiant conduct of him and his men, his vigilance and initiative, that this attack too - driven home by the English northwest of Combles with superior forces - entirely failed ....

JULY 10, 1916

123 INFANTRY DIVISION

II BATTALION, INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

BATTLE OF THE SOMME

TRÔNES WOOD

JULY 12, 1916

123 INFANTRY DIVISION

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

BATTLE OF THE SOMME

TRÔNES WOOD

JULY 18, 1916

123 INFANTRY DIVISION

BATTLE OF THE SOMME

Can you provide his name? I want to see if I have the Verlustlisten for this period and regiment, thanks ....

THE PICTURE WAS UNAVAILABLE

Typical Iron Cross

Iron Cross, Ist Class, received in 1918.
Awarded, on August 17, 1916, to Lieutenant Theodor Günther , Infantry Regiment 182

http://www.kaiserscross.com/60401/90001.html

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JULY 24, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

MISSERY

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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JULY 25, 1916

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF JULY 25, 1916

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/4100178 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, July 25, 1916, Page 13561, S. 307, Edition 1064

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JULY 25, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

BELLOYS

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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JULY 27, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

BELLOYS

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

HEM, NORD DEPARTMENT

http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=26536

  1. The second map is from the History of Infantry Regiment 182, a Saxon regiment, at that time part of 23rd Infantry Division (I am fairly sure). This action took place while piecemeal reinforcement was almost the norm, as the German army attempted to fight fires on the Somme. So, whilst the 1st and 3rd Bns IR 182 were deployed down near Hem, the 2nd Bn was deployed forward under command of 12th Res Div, to reinforce the severely depleted RIR 51 and assist in the 9 Jul 16 counter-attack against Trones Wood , which had had to be evacuated the previous night due to the immense weight of shelling to which it was being subjected. The actual attack seems to have been preceded by a very effective German barrage and the wood was taken relatively easily. A number of prisoners were captured. According to the history of IR 182, they were from 16th and 17th Bns Manchester Regiment ...

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    NOTE:

    1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

        AND

    I BATTALION, INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

    AUGUST 22, 1916 - OCTOBER 10, 1918

    AT THIS POINT JÄGER-BATAILLON, NR. 12, COMPANY 3 LEAVES THE SOMME
    BUT DOES NOT GO TO THE RUSSIAN FRONT
    AS WOULD INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

NOTE:

Jäger

The records for Friedrich Wilhelm Krause indicate that
he was in the Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg,
for the period by October 1, 1915 but not on March 31, 1918.
However, for all of 1917 he was in and out of hospital.

NOTE:

IR 182
By February 11, 1918 Friedrich Wilhelm Krause had returned to his former Infantry Regiment 182 in Romania.

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KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES 16 REGIMENT 182
ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT

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1916

AUGUST - OCTOBER, 1916

RUSSIA

123 INFANTRY DIVISION

AUGUST 8, 1916

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF AUGUST  8, 1916

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/4239057  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, August 8, 1916, Page 13890, S. 312, Edition 1088.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/4227108  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, August 8, 1916, Page 13891, S. 312, Edition 1088.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/2743920 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, August 8, 1916, Page 13892, S. 312, Edition 1088.

ERNST BAUCH:

AUGUST 8, 1916

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182

Bauch, Ernst, Ort Dresden-A. - 1 Compagnie, Leicht verwundet (slightly wounded) [In Russia?]

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/4239057  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, August 8, 1916, Page 13890, S. 312, Edition 1088

Note: He died in Galicia on October 16, 1916

Namen der Gefallenen

[Names of the Fallen]

Name

[Name]

Vorname

[First Name]

Todesdatum & Ort

[Death Date and Place]

Einheit

[Unit]

Bemerkungen

[Comments]

BAUCH

Ernst

16.10.1916 Galizien [Galicia]

I.R.182

 

Dresden-Laubegast, Sachsen: Säulenhalle inmitten des Kirchplatzes in Dresden-Laubegast -
[Dresden-Laubegast, Saxony: portico in the middle of the church square in Dresden-Laubegast]

 http://www.denkmalprojekt.org/dkm_deutschland/dresden-laubegast_wk1_sachs.htm

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AUGUST 12, 1916

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF AUGUST 12, 1916

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/3643382 - - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, August 12, 1916, Page 14007, S. 314, Edition 1096

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/3664021 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, August 12, 1916, Page 14008, S. 314, Edition 1096

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/2269919  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, August 12, 1916, Page 14009, S. 314, Edition 1096

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AUGUST 23, 1916

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF AUGUST 23, 1916

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/4317813 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, August 23, 1916, Page 14295, S. 319, Edition 1118.

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Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp.  684-686. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up

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SEPTEMBER 1 - 2, 1916

  • Two large German Armies, one commanded by General von Falkenhayn, a former Chief of Staff, the other by General Mackensen, a mighty strategist who had compelled the Russian retreat during the previous winter, were dispatched to the scene. Falkenhayn was to operate from the north, driving the Romanians back across the Carpathians, while Mackensen was to assault the Romanians from the south with the aid of Bulgarian, German and Turkish forces operating along the line of the Danube. They hoped to crush the Romanians between them as in a vice ...

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SEPTEMBER 6, 1916

[Note: By some accounts, the 182nd Infantry Regiment was not transferred from the 123 Division to the 216 Division until October, 1916.
Other Accounts say September 6, 1916]

SEPTEMBER 8, 1916 - JANUARY 29, 1918

212 INFANTRY DIVISION

COMMANDER

FRANZ SAMUEL LUDWIG FRANKE

Kommandeure

Generalmajor Franz Franke 8. September 1916 bis 29. Januar 1918
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/212._Division_%289._
K%C3%B6niglich_S%C3%A4chsische%29

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INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

SEPTEMBER 8, 1916 - APRIL 22, 1917:

177. Infanterie-Brigade / 216. Infanterie-Division

wiki-de.genealogy.net/IR_182

177. Infanterie-Brigade (war vorher die Brigade Zenker)

16. Kgl. Sächs. Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182 - 08.09.1916 - 22.04.1917

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/216._Infanterie-Division_%28WK1%29

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INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

APRIL 22, 1917 - AUGUST 20, 1917:

86. Reserve-Infanterie-Brigade / 216. Infanterie-Division

wiki-de.genealogy.net/IR_182

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1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

AUGUST 22, 1916 - DECEMBER, 1918

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216 DIVISION

 KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES 16 REGIMENT 182
AND
1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

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ON THE EASTERN FRONT

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REGIMENT 182 WITH 216 DIVISION BEGINNING OF OCTOBER, 1916 UNTIL SEPTEMBER, 1917

1916 - 1921

Eastern Front - South Russia: Some Background Notes For Krause Road to South Russia

216th DIVISION (1916-1917)

(INDEPENDENT DIVISION)

216 INFANTRY DIVISION, 16 ROYAL SAXON, 182 INFANTRY REGIMENT

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 684-686 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which participated in the War (1914-1918) (Washington Government Printing Office, 1920)- http://www.archive.org/details/historiesoftwohu00unit

Brigade:
          182nd Infantry Regiment [Note: It went to the 216th Division in October 1916 following tour in Russia]
          354th Infantry Regiment
          21st Reserve Regiment

Calvary:
           Unknown

Artillery Brigade:
          54th Field Artillery Regiment

Engineers:
          2nd Guard Landwehr Pioneer

Organization of German Divisions 1916, p. 68 - http://carl.army.mil/nafziger/916GXIA.pdf

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AUGUST 22, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

ESTRĖES, AINSE

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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AUGUST 23, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

ESTRĖES, AINSE

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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AUGUST 24, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

ESTRĖES, AINSE

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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SEPTEMBER 4, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

ESTRĖES, AINSE

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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SEPTEMBER 4,  1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

RICHARD PAUL BEHR

SOYÉCOURT, SOMME

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Dienstgrad: Gefr.; Name: BEYER; Vorname: Paul; Todesdatum & Ort: 03.08.1916, Estrées;  Einheit: 4.Kp

http://www.denkmalprojekt.org/2014/koeniglich-saechsisches-1-jaeger-bataillon-nr12%20_a-g_wk1.html

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SEPTEMBER 5, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

ESTRĖES, AINSE

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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SEPTEMBER 6, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

ESTRĖES, AINSE

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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SEPTEMBER 6, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF SEPTEMBER 6, 1916

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/4477105  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, September 6, 1916, Page 14635, [S. 325?], Edition 1142

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SEPTEMBER  22, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

 GARDELOVO, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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SEPTEMBER 29, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF SEPTEMBER 29, 1916

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/2675612  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, September 29, 1916, Page 15174, S. 334, Edition 1182

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OCTOBER 14, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 14, 1916

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/4827701 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 14, 1916, Page 15547, S. 342, Edition 1208

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NOVEMBER 9, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF NOVEMBER 9, 1916

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/5011747  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, November 9, 1916, Page 16154, S. 352, Edition 1253

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NOVEMBER 14, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

  NOVAK, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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NOVEMBER 18, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

DOBROMIR, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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NOVEMBER 25, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

DOBROMIR, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

DOBROMIR, MACEDONIA

Hill 1050, Paralovo

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-95nhN8848OQ/VjUanuAStSI/AAAAAAAAbXg/KdL4u265YjoSV4Fe5dgbPC1V1Q9TKD_7g/s1600/kota-1050-macedonia-8.jpg

  • The German army realized that the loss of Elevation 1050, would put into question the defense of all their positions in the bow of the Crna Reka and would open the road for conquest of Central Macedonia, so it put a great effort in its defense. Both warring sides paid great attention to this location and a number of soldiers gave their lives on this area.

The German command took very seriously the defense of this position and the task was confided to the Hunting Guard battalion [Guard Jäger Bataillon], which managed to maintain their positions and repel the attacks of the Serbian army in the month of November 1916. At that time, quite heavy battles were also fought for conquering Grunishki Vis. Serbian army failed to win the Elevation 1050 and the advent of winter 1916/17 year led to stagnation of the Macedonian front and its transformation into trench warfare.

https://off-road.mk/elevation-1050-first-world-war-location-on-the-macedonian-front/ 

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NOVEMBER 26, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 2

PARALOVO NEAR HILL 1050, MACEDONIA

  • Leutnant der Reserve Paul Schneider, 2nd comp., 1st Royal Saxon Jäger Battalion 12, killed in action on 26 November 1916 at Paralovo near Hill 1050 in Macedonia.
       
    The battalion history reports the following about this day:
       
    "Early on 26 November, lively artillery fire began against our position in the Crna Bend and continued unabated until noon. From 3 o'clock in the afternoon the enemy worked his way against our position. His attack was particularly directed against the 2nd company, which in turn suffered considerably from enemy machine gun fire. In spite of effective defence and our well-placed fire, the enemy managed to get to our position at 200m and to take hold of the Schleiergraben (base II). In order to make it more difficult for him to nest, the forecourt was kept under constant machine gun and infantry fire until a counterattack threw him back to his starting position. During this process Lt. d. R. Schneider met his heroic death."
      
    Collection: Mark Beirnaert

https://www.facebook.com/ZeemeringColouring/

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NOVEMBER 27, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

DOBROMIR, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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NOVEMBER 28, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

 BEI ARMATUS HILL 1050, NORTH OF MONASTIR, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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NOVEMBER 29, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

 BEI ARMATUS HILL 1050, NORTH OF MONASTIR, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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DECEMBER 5, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

 BEI ARMATUS HILL 1050, NORTH OF MONASTIR, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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DECEMBER 6, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

 BEI ARMATUS HILL 1050, NORTH OF MONASTIR, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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DECEMBER 9, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

 BEI ARMATUS HILL 1050, NORTH OF MONASTIR, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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DECEMBER 10, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

 BEI ARMATUS HILL 1050, NORTH OF MONASTIR, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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DECEMBER 11, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

 BEI ARMATUS HILL 1050, NORTH OF MONASTIR, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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DECEMBER 16, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

 BEI ARMATUS HILL 1050, NORTH OF MONASTIR, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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DECEMBER 20, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

 BEI ARMATUS HILL 1050, NORTH OF MONASTIR, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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MARCH [2?], 1917

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

LESKOVAC, SERBIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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MARCH 11, 1917

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

LESKOVAC, SERBIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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MARCH 12, 1917

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

LESKOVAC, SERBIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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MARCH 13, 1917

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

LESKOVAC, SERBIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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MARCH 15, 1917

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

LESKOVAC, SERBIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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MARCH 16, 1917

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

LESKOVAC, SERBIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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MARCH 17, 1917

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

LESKOVAC, SERBIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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MARCH 18, 1917

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

LESKOVAC, SERBIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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MARCH 18, 1917

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

PRILEP, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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MAY 3, 1917

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

A.D. CRVENA STENA, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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MAY 7, 1917

A.D. CRVENA STENA, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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MAY 8, 1917

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

A.D. CRVENA STENA, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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MAY 10, 1917

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

A.D. CRVENA STENA, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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MAY 13, 1917

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

A.D. CRVENA STENA, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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MAY 15, 1917

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

A.D. CRVENA STENA, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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MAY 16, 1917

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

A.D. CRVENA STENA, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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OCTOBER 21, 1917

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

STRAVANJ, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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OCTOBER 30, 1917

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

STRAVANJ, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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MARCH 26, 1918

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

BEI ARMATUS HILL 1050, NORTH OF MONASTIR, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER, 1918

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

Click the Following For:

KÖNIGLICHES SACHSISCHES 1. JAGER-BATAILLON NR. 12 - MACEDONIA

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SEPTEMBER 19, 1918

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

 RASIMBEJ-BRÛCKE, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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OCTOBER 10, 1918

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

GRAMAGJA, SERBIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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DECEMBER, 1918

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

  • Im Dezember 1918 wurde das Bataillon in Lichtenberg aufgelöst ...

    • In December 1918, the battalion was disbanded in Lichtenberg ...

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/1._K%C3%B6niglich_
S%C3%A4chsisches_J%C3%A4ger-Bataillon_Nr._12

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216 DIVISION

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Above: Working party of IR 182 in Romania, circa 1917.

GALICIA - TRANSYLVANIA - ROMANIA (ROUMANIA)

BEGINNING OF OCTOBER, 1916 - SEPTEMBER, 1917

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INTRODUCTION TO GALICIA, TRANSLVANIA AND ROMANIA (ROUMANIA)

1916-1918

According to 251 Division book IR182 was in:

216 Division in 1916 Galicia-Transylvania/Roumania
212 Division in 1917-1918 Roumania/Ukraine

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=24278 and http://www.1914-18.info/

GALICIA [Now South western Ukraine]  (1916)

TRANSYLVANIA / RUMANIA (September, 1916 - December 6, 1916)

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216  DIVISION

1916

Army Group Mackensen (Romania)

AUGUST 29, 1916 - NOVEMBER 10, 1918

[Anton Ludwig August von Mackensen]

Army Group Mackensen (Romania) later occupation army Romania
  29.08.1916 - 10.11.1918: Army Group Mackensen (Romania)

Heeresgruppe Mackensen (Rumänien)
später Besatzungsheer Rumänien
29.08.1916 - 10.11.1918:
Heeresgruppe Mackensen (Rumänien)

[He followed this up in 1916 with a successful campaign against
Romania (under the overall command of General Erich von Falkenhayn).
He was in command of a multi-national army
of Bulgarians, Ottoman Turks, and Germans. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_von_Mackensen ]

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/HGr._Mackensen_%28Rum%C3%A4nien%29

1916 Rumänien

9th Army Falkenhayn/Mackensen - August 27, 1916 - September 18, 1916

http://www.emersonkent.com/map_archive/romanian_campaign_01.htm

AUGUST 27, 1916

Romania declared war on Austria-Hungary

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/HGr._Mackensen_%28Rum%C3%A4nien%29

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  • 7. September 1916 Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen ...

Gen. Lt. Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen awarded on - 7 Sept. 1916. He was awarded Oakleaves on 11 Dec. 1916 ...

http://www.hotlinecy.com/KCPix/BlueMaxRecipients.pdf  and http://www.pourlemerite.org/

AUGUST 28, 1916

Formation of the Army Group Mackensen and the army of the Danube

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/HGr._Mackensen_%28Rum%C3%A4nien%29

SEPTEMBER 1, 1916

SEPTEMBER 6, 1917

BRZEZANY

SEPTEMBER 20, 1916

BRZEZANY

   

Brusilov Offensive, June 4, 1916 - September 30, 1916

books.google.ca/books?isbn=1851096728
A Global Chronology of Conflict: From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle ... edited by Spencer C. Tucker - p. 1622

http://www.worldwar1.com/tgws/big/romap1.jpg

OCTOBER 2, 1916

  • On the morning of October 2, 1916, a Romanian division, planning a surprise attack on Mackensen's rear, laid a pontoon bridge across the Danube River, between Silistria and Tutrakan. After crossing the Danube, the Romanians seized several villages, but they quickly retreated across the river when an Austrian monitor began shelling the bridge ....

 

OCTOBER 5, 1916

   

LONDON, October 5 .... In view of the lull on the Somme, interest is now concentrated
on the Balkan situation, particularly the positions in Rumania ...

LONDON, October 6 ... the Rumanians surprised Marshal von Mackenson by unexpectedly crossing the Danube marshes ...
Petrograd reports that a great battle is proceeding in the Dobrudja ...

http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=NOT19161007.2.28 -
TRAPPING MACKENSEN North Otago Times, Volume CIV, Issue 13693, 7 October 1916, Page 5

["Rumanians Flank Mackenson by Crossing Danube"[29 September and 5 October 1916] - http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F1071EFD3D5412738FDDAA0894D8415B868DF1D3 - NY Times, October 3, 1916]

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216 DIVISION

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GALICIA

BEGINNING OF OCTOBER, 1916 TO NOVEMBER 8, 1916

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Galicia

http://www.dirkbilland.de/Reisen/Galizien%202007/index.htm

Galicia

http://www.conflicts.rem33.com/images/Ukraine/1918_ukr.jpg

216 DIVISION

182 INFANTRY REGIMENT

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 620-622 http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up

OCTOBER 1, 1916

 RICHARD HEIDRICH
(1 October 1916-15 May 1920: Platoon and Company Leader in the Royal Saxon 16. Infanterie-Regiment Nr.182.)

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

 OCTOBER 1, 1916

RICHARD HEIDRICH
(1 October 1916-15 May 1920: Platoon and Company Leader in the Royal Saxon 16. Infanterie-Regiment Nr.182.)

216 INFANTRY DIVISION

1. In Galicia (Brzezany) beginning of October [1916], the 216th Division [Independent Division] ....

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp.  684-686. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up

OCTOBER 9, 1916  

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OCTOBER 13, 1916

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 13, 1916

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/4826341 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 13, 1916, Page 15517, S. 342, Edition 1206

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/4818698 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 13, 1916, Page 15518, S. 342, Edition 1206

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OCTOBER 16, 1916

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 16, 1916

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/4961936 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 16, 1916, Page 15843, B 311 - S. 348, Edition 1230

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/4883507  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 16, 1916, Page 15844, B 311 - S. 348, Edition 1230

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OCTOBER 16, 1916

GALICIA

Namen der Gefallenen

[Names of the Fallen]

Name

[Name]

Vorname

[First Name]

Todesdatum & Ort

[Death Date and Place]

Einheit

[Unit]

Bemerkungen

[Comments]

BAUCH

Ernst

16.10.1916 Galizien [Galicia]

I.R.182

 

Dresden-Laubegast, Sachsen: Säulenhalle inmitten des Kirchplatzes in Dresden-Laubegast -
[Dresden-Laubegast, Saxony: portico in the middle of the church square in Dresden-Laubegast]

 http://www.denkmalprojekt.org/dkm_deutschland/dresden-laubegast_wk1_sachs.htm

NOTE RE ERNST BAUCH:

AUGUST 8, 1916

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182

Bauch, Ernst, Ort Dresden-A. - 1 Compagnie, Leicht verwundet (slightly wounded)

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/4239057  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, August 8, 1916, Page 13890, S. 312, Edition 1088

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NOVEMBER 2, 1916

        LIEUTENANT HANS WOLFGANG REINHARD [11 December 1888 – 6 October 1950]

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216 DIVISION

TRANSLVANIA

NOVEMBER 8, 1916 - EARLY NOVEMBER, 1916

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9TH ARMY

FALKENHAYN

216 DIVISION

182 INFANTRY REGIMENT

NOVEMBER, 1916

216 DIVISION

182 INFANTRY REGIMENT

NOVEMBER 8, 1916

TRANSYLVANIA

216 INFANTRY DIVISION

VALLEY OF THE OLT

... the 216th Division [Independent Division] was transferred to the Transylvanian front (Valley of the Olt) on November 8

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp.  684-686. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up  

NOVEMBER, 1916

[COUNTY] OLT

Germaine ...

[9th Army - 216 Division - Krafft Group]

3) Sectorul Olt Grupul Kraftt ]Krafft Group]

Corp alpin bavarez (Tuschek)
Divizia 216 infanterie (Veit) [Vett]
Divizia 2 Cavalerie (Etzl)

http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=124744&st=175

NOVEMBER 10, 1916

NOVEMBER, 1916

[VALLEY OF THE ALT - ALUTA (also called OLT)]

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216 DIVISION

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ROMANIA (ROUMANIA) 1916

EARLY NOVEMBER, 1916 - DECEMBER, 1916

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9TH ARMY

FALKENHAYN

GROUP KRAFFT

216 DIVISION

182 INFANTRY REGIMENT

9th Army - The War in Rumania (November 1, 1916 - December 31, 1916)

Romanian Front - 1 November - 31 December 1916 (Master Cartographer Larry Hoffman)
 http://www.warchron.com/imagePages/maps/hoffman/Romania/Romania-1November1916.htm

2. It took part in the Roumanian campaign

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp.  684-686. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up 

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

ROYAL SAXON, 16TH INFANTRY REGIMENT 182, 12TH COMPANY

ROMANIA

Fritz Gebelein

 

LATE NOVEMBER, 1916

Crossing of the Danube

[The Danube remained a barrier to military operations until half of Mackensen's army crossed it in late November, 1916 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fl%C4%83m%C3%A2nda_Offensive ]

  • Donauübergang

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/HGr._Mackensen_%28Rum%C3%A4nien%29

EARLY NOVEMBER, 1916 - NOVEMBER 23, 1916

9TH ARMY

GROUP KRAFFT (Krafft von Dellmensingen)

216 INFANTRY DIVISION

Meanwhile, Groups Morgen and Staabs were engaged in fierce battles with Romanian 2nd Army at the Kronstadt Passes. Here the Romanians resisted on the southern side of the mountain passes with nearly 100,000 soldiers.[224] Once Group Krafft advanced into the Wallachia plain, however, 2nd Army’s left flank became exposed. The Romanians withdrew the bulk of their forces south and established a concentric position northwest of Bucharest ... Groups Morgen and Staabs reached Campolung and Sinaia by November 25. The Romanians had abandoned every major mountain pass along the Transylvanian Alps. Falkenhayn’s feints the previous month, as well as the skillful use of Group Kühne to endanger the Romanian left wing, had borne fruit as the entire 9th Army stood inside Wallachia in late November ...

Still, all was not perfect with the German dispositions. On the one hand, Schmettow’s Corps and the 109th Division crossed the Alt River and threatened the Romanian 1st Army’s left wing . Groups Staabs, Morgen, and Krafft linked up and positioned themselves along the line Pitesti-Sinaia ...

http://www.michiganwarstudiesreview.com/2005/20050501.asp / http://www.michiganwarstudiesreview.com/2005/downloads/20050501.pdf

2. It took part in the Roumanian campaign ...

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp.  684-686. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up 

NOVEMBER, 1916

GROUP KRAFFT (Krafft von Dellmensingen)

216 INFANTRY DIVISION

Austrian Army Romanian and Russian Theater Beginning of November 1916

NOVEMBER, 1916

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NOVEMBER 1, 1916

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF NOVEMBER 1, 1916

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/5004227 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, November 1, 1916, Page 15983, S. 350, Edition 1240

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NOVEMBER 23, 1916

NOVEMBER 25, 1916

Received November 26 .... LONDON, November 25 ... A Russian communique says: In the Alt Valley the enemy energetically attacked and pressed back the Roumanians towards the south of Kalimanesht and Moldarosh ... Germans crossed the Danube near Zimnita ... A German evening communique says: A force of Mackensen's army crossed the Danube at several points ...

http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=WC19161127.2.28.1 - Wanganui Chronicle, 27 November 1916, Page 6, MACKENSEN ACROSS THE DANUBE.

NOVEMBER 25, 1916

LONDON. November 25 ... A German communiqué says: - ..."General von Mackensen's army is likewise engaged at other points ... "We have captured Orsova and Turnu-Severin on the Danube in Western Roumania". ...

http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=CHP19161127.2.47 - A BLACK HOUR. Press, Volume LII, Issue 15758, 27 November 1916, Page 7

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NOVEMBER 26, 1916

http://www.worldwar1.com/tgws/big/romap2.jpg

NOVEMBER 27, 1916 - DECEMBER 3, 1916

KRAFFT GROUP

216 INFANTRY DIVISION

NORTH-WEST OF BUCHAREST

At 29th of November, the line of the German Front advanced like an invasion wave. The circle arch have diminished its ray. At North-East, Kraftt Group [Krafft Group] has occupied Pitesti and was advancing along the driveway with railways towards Golesti-Titu. The Group was now made of three Divisions of Infantry: the Bavarian Alpine Corps , the 216th German Division and the 73rd Austro-Hungarian Division ...

The three Armies: Kraft, Kuhne and Kosch, represented with this face a force of 12 Divisions of Infantry and four Cavalry Divisions ...

For the systematization of the description of the fights given in the days of 30th of November-3rd of December, the battle theatre may be separated in three Sectors ...

On the side of the enemy operated in this direction [Krafft Army]  Kraftt Army von Delmensiengen, made out of the Bavarian Alpine Corps, the 73rd Austro-Hungarian Division, the 216th Division the 2nd German Cavalry Division, as well as two Divisions: 301st and 41st of Kuhne Army ...

The plan for the battle of Bucharest ... After the informations of the Great Romanian Headquarter, the enemy was advancing in to two Groups: a Northern Group-Kraftt Army [Krafft Army] -was in Pitesti-Costesti region, and a Southern group -Kosch Army, along the driveway Alexandria -Bucharest .....

She had in front the four Divisions of Kraftt Army [Krafft Army] ...

NOVEMBER 30, 1916 - DECEMBER 3, 1916

GROUP KRAFFT
The Battle of Neajlov and Arges, 1916
[Battle for Bucharest]

 Grupul Krafft

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/45558714  

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9th Army - November 26, 1916 - January 7, 1916

Kraftt Army von Delmensiengen

http://www.emersonkent.com/map_archive/romanian_campaign_03.htm

Final Operations - November 26, 1916 - January 7, 1917

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Romania-WW1-3.jpg

DECEMBER, 1916

Orders of Battle:  Roumania, November 1916
Immediately following the defeat of Roumania
Army Front Erzherzog Karl, Generaloberst Karl Franz Josef
 IX. Deutsch Armee, Gen. d. Inf. von Falkenhayn
     K.u.K. Group Szivo, Oberst von Szivo
     LIV. Deutsch Korps, Genlt. Kühne
          XI. Bayerisch inf. div., Genlt. Kneußl
          CCCI. inf. div., Genmj. von Busse
     Schmettow kav. Korps, Genlt. Schmettow
          VI. Deutsch kav. div., Genmj. Sägner
          VII. Deutsch kav. div., Genmj. von Mutius
          XLI. Deutsch inf. div., Genmj. von Knobelsdorf
     Krafft Group, Genlt. Krafft von Dellmensingen
          LXXIII. K.u.K. inf. div., Feldmlt. Goiginger
          Alpine Korps div., Genmj. von Tutschek
          CCXVI. Deutsch inf. div., Genmj. Vett
     I. Deutsch res. Korps, Genlt. von Morgen
          XII. Bayerisch inf. div., Genlt. Huller
          LXXVI. Deutsch res. div., Genlt. Elstermann
          XXXIX. Deutsch res. Korps, Genlt. von Staabs
          LI. Honved inf. div., Genmj. Tanarky

9th Army - 216 Division - Krafft Group

http://www.oocities.org/veldes1/falkenhayn.html

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DECEMBER, 1916 - JANUARY, 1917

War theatre at Casin, Vrancea
and Focsani,

Grupul Morgen and Grupul Krafft

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/45558714

 

Rumania

Deutsche Soldaten-Zeitung, 4, Number 24, December 13, 1916

http://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/
werkansicht?PPN=PPN778487652&PHYSID=PHYS_
0306&DMDID=DMDLOG_0001

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DECEMBER 1, 1916 - DECEMBER 5, 1916

Battle of the Arges

  • 01.12.1916 - 05.12.1916: Schlacht am Arges

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/HGr._Mackensen_%28Rum%C3%A4nien%29

 

DECEMBER 1, 1916

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF DECEMBER 1, 1916

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/3202819 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, December 1, 1916, Page 16652, S. 363, Edition 1290

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DECEMBER, 1916

The battle at Cricov
8-11th of December

The enemy was advancing with the two Armies of his. The IXth Army had as axis of advance the railway Ploiesti-Buzau. On the left of her, in the mountainous region, has constituted a Group Kraftt [Krafft], composed of all the elements Alpine Germans and Austro-Hungarians; then followed Morgen Group, increased as number of Divisions, and at the right was Kuhne Army ...

The attack unfolds favorable in the beginning;at 10:30 [December 8] in the morning the 12th Division is at Albesti and the 23rd Division beyond Tomsani. In this moment, though, Morgen, which was holding the enemy Front with three Divisions, 12th,76th and 216th, pronounced a strong counterattack on the two wings of the Romanian Group of Attack ...

Early in the morning, the enemy attacks the entire line of the IInd Romanian Army with Kraftt [Krafft] and Morgen Corps ...

The battle of Rimnicu Sarat ...

The battle at Rimnicu Sarat has been engaged by the Germans with the totality of their forces, existing between Carpathian Mountains and Danube : 17 Divisions. At the left , the IXth Army, under the Command of General Falkenhayn , had to execute the principal mission with the mass of the 10 Divisions from Infantry of his . The advancing axis of the IXth Army was the driveway and railway Buzau-Rimnicu Sarat; his operational field was the region of hills and mountains in the North of Buzau County and Rimnicu Sarat County, until Buzau River. When the Romanian-Russian position will be broke through , will begin the action also the Danube Army, Commanded by General Kosch, made out of five Divisions of Infantry German-Turk-Bulgarian and two Cavalry Divisions. She will operate in the flat region between Buzau River and Danube River, with the direction towards Braila. ...

The battle at Rimnicu Sarat has lasted six days, from 22nd to 27th of December and it was the greatest battle in the retreat times. The Germans name her also "Weihnachtsschlacht"-Christmassbattle , because her decissive action was given in the days of Chatolic Cristmass. General Falkenhayn , of which IXth Army, will carry the weight of the battle, has set to its left wing Kraftt Group [Krafft Group], made out of the totality of its mountain troops; this one would operate against the Group of Romanian Divisions in the mountaineous region and of hills; its mission was to operate a turning of the Romanian flank in Dumitresti region . Mounted on Buzau-Rimnic driveway was Morgen Group; its mission was to breakthrough the Russian lines and conquer Rimnicu Sarat city.

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/45558714

Siret line

After the victory at Rimnicu Sarat , Falkenhayn had a moment of hesitation. The hardships of the winter, which was announcing more and more threatening , the exhaustion of his troops and the resistance of the enemy showed him the continuation of the advance as a risky bussiness. At 31st of December however, the Great German Headquarter ordered the continuation of the operations ;the IXth German Army and the Danube Army have to occupy line Focsani -lower Siretului Valley ...

The Front of the two Armies was descending thus , from Oituz mountains and of Vrancei ,along Milcov River , continuing then with Putna Valley and at the Sout of Siret until Braila region, occupied by the enemy at 4th of January. [1917] The grouping of the enemy forces was the following: in Oituz-Vrancea Sector was operating ,just as until now, Gerock Group, from the Army of Archduke Iosif ; in Odobesti Sector, against Vaitoianu Group, was operating Kraftt Group[Krafft Group] made out of the Divisions of German Alpiners and Austro-Hungarians; in Focsani and Putna Sector, against the right of the IVth Russian Army, was operating Morgen Group; Kuhne and Kosch Army were operating in Siret Sector ...

For the conquer of Magura-Odobestilor, Falkenhayn destined to Kraftt Group ]Krafft Group] two more Divisions from the left of Morgen Group, which will make a veiling attack. At 5th of January, the Bavarian Alpine Corps has attacked at the junction point of Rimnic Group and Mannerheim Divisions 12th and 1st Romanians ...

Romanian Campaign of 1916.The Invasion History of the War for Wholing Romania/Constantin Kiritescu  - http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/

Generalleutnant Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen 11.12.1916 .    24.11.1862-22.08.1953 ...

....
3. At the end of December it was south of Rimmieu-Sarat. [Rimnicu Sarat]

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp.  684-686. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317

https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up 

Rumania

Deutsche Soldaten-Zeitung, 4, Number 25, December 20, 1916

http://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht?PPN=
PPN778487652&PHYSID=PHYS_0319&DMDID=DMDLOG_0001

(5)

216 DIVISION

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1917

IR 182, 11th Company

1917 Recruits -
Zur Erinnerung an die Rekrutenzeit 1917

http://imgur.com/a/9mhEj

https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/
3kygo5/my_grandmother_found_some_old_images_of_my_great/

(D) ROMANIA (ROUMANIA) 1917

JANUARY, 1917 - AUGUST, 1917

MACKENSEN ARMY GROUP

9TH ARMY I (GERMAN) RESERVE CORPS: VON MORGAN

216 DIVISION

182 INFANTRY REGIMENT
JANUARY, 1917
 
 
182nd Infantry Regiment, 216th Infantry Division
 
standard overcoat, with field-grey covers ...
 
Nigel Thomas, The German Army in World War I (2): 1915-17, p. 47
 
https://books.google.ca/books?id=qAgLrRyS1vIC&pg=
PA61&lpg=PA61&dq=182nd+focsani+january+1917
&source=bl&ots=OysxmNQ5oW&sig=
jOFHd6AXjcuAOWBCMQZA6D5soJ0&hl
=en&sa=X&ei=h9vkVMz_KozfsASM84DQDg&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=
onepage&q=182nd%20focsani%20january%201917&f=false
 
JANUARY, 1917

1. In January, 1917, the 216th Division [Independent Division] was in line east of Foesani [Focsani], where it remained until August.

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp.  684-686. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up  

[1917]

War of Position

  • Stellungskrieg

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/HGr._Mackensen_%28Rum%C3%A4nien%29

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JANUARY 10, 1917

177. Infanterie-Brigade / 216. Infanterie-Division

177. (Kgl. Sächs.) Infanterie-Brigade 

Kriegsgliederung am 10.01.1917 - War division on 01.10.1917

16. Kgl. Sächs. Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182
Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 354
Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 21
Kavallerie-Eskadron 205
Neumärkisches Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr. 54
Stab und IV. Bataillon Reserve-Fußartillerie-Regiment Nr. 14
2. Kompanie/Garde-Landwehr-Pionier-Scheinwerferzug Nr. 262
Gebirgs-MG-Kompanie Nr. 170
Fernsprech-Doppelzug Nr. 416
Feldsignal-Zug Nr. 438
Feldsignal-Zug Nr. 439

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/177._Infanterie-Brigade

http://www.linkfang.de/wiki/216._Division_%28Deutsches_Kaiserreich%29

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1917 [Rumänien]

[From 1917 on, Mackensen was the military governor
of the parts of Romania (mainly Wallachia) controlled by the Central Powers
 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_von_Mackensen ]

JANUARY 12, 1917

Annexation of the Military Administration in Romania

  • 12.01.1917: Angliederung der Militärverwaltung in Rumänien.

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/HGr._Mackensen_%28Rum%C3%A4nien%29

MACKENSEN ARMY GROUP

9TH ARMY I (GERMAN) RESERVE CORPS: VON MORGAN (May, 1917: Robert Paul Theodor Kosch)

216 INFANTRY DIVISION

182 INFANTRY REGIMENT

January 1917 - June 1917

ROUMANIA / SOUTHERN MOLDAVIA

The German army in World War I.: 1917-18, Volume 3 By Nigel Thomas, Ramiro Bujeiro, p. 14 -
http://books.google.ca/books?id=AodiUXZo5R0C&pg=
PA7&lpg=PA7&dq=%22september
+1917%22+%22rumania22&source=bl&ots=QqrGdoPxzO&sig=
tZG8V1CF0FayklzWrn3fGsI0Ijk&hl=en&ei=MhETeapBIOC8gbOsZGzAQ&sa
=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAw#v=snippet&q=212&f=false

http://books.google.ca/books?id=_1PJ4GwRSKUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:
1780965753&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4v-XUpCEL7PQsATbg4GIBg&ved
=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false - Page 14

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1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

JÄGER KRAUSE LIGHTLY WOUNDED, C. APRIL 20, 1917

APRIL 20, 1917 - APRIL 30, 1917

20/04/1917   Hospital Activity: "Jäger Batallion 12", Company 3
22/04/1917   Hospital Activity
28/04/1917   Hospital Activity: Jäger Batallion 12, Company 3
30/04/1917   Hospital Activity

Probably wounded in either Wallachia, or in western or southern Moldavia

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[NOTE: Romania signs an armistice with the Central Powers on April 20, 1917, ending Romanian involvement in World War I
http://althistory.wikia.com/wiki/Russian_Surrender_%28WW_I_Central_Powers_Victory%29 ]

INJURIES REPORTED JUNE 4, 1917

REPORT OF JUNE 4, 1917

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg
[They appeared as an appendix to the Army Gazette
and were also published in the German Empire Gazette as well as the Prussian State Gazette]

REPORT OF JUNE 4, 1917

DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE

1917-06-04, Krause, Wilhelm, Bischofswerda, Bautzen

Page Number 18853
Ausgabe 1483
Datum 1917-06-04
Last name Krause
First name Wilhelm
Ort Bischofswerda, Auerbach
[NOTE: Auerbach is the birth place for another soldier listed directly below Wilhelm Krause]
Liste Sachsen 412
Reg. o.ä.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/5986836  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, June 4, 1917, Page 18853, S. 412, Edition 1483.

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APRIL, 1917 - MAY, 1917

LIGHT INFANTRY (Jäger) BATTALIONS - 12 SAXON

The German Army in World War I (3): 1917-18, Volume 3 By Nigel Thomas, p. 21

books.google.ca/books?isbn=1780965753   

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MAY 1, 1917 - MAY 20, 1917

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

KRAUSE IN HOSPITAL - FÜRTH, GERMANY

MAY 1, 1917 - MAY 20, 1917

Jäger Friedrich Wilhelm Krause

01/05/1917 - 20/05/1917 K. Reservelazarett Fürth : [Hospital] K. Reserve Hospital Fürth, From May 1, 1917 to May 20, 1917
15/05/1917   Hospital Activity: "Jäger Battalion 12", Company 3 - Bischofswerda mentioned

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[JULY]

JULY 19 - MID-AUGUST

https://fedora.e-book.fwf.ac.at/fedora/get/o:850/bdef:Content/get#page=36&zoom=auto,-12,657  -
Wolfram Dornik, The Emergence of Ukraine. Self-Determination, Occupation, and War in Ukraine, 1917-1922. (2015), Chapter 1A, p. 5.

216 INFANTRY DIVISION

182 INFANTRY DIVISION

JULY 22, 1917 - SEPTEMBER 3, 1917

Romanian Front - 22 July - 3 September 1917 (Master Cartographer Larry Hoffman)
http://www.warchron.com/imagePages/maps/hoffman/Romania/Romania-22July1917.htm

216 INFANTRY DIVISION

182 INFANTRY DIVISION

JULY 22, 1917 - SEPTEMBER 3, 1917

Romanian Front - 22 July - 3 September 1917 (Master Cartographer Larry Hoffman)
http://www.warchron.com/imagePages/maps/hoffman/Romania/Romania-22July1917.htm

216 INFANTRY DIVISION IN RUMANIA

JULY 23, 1917

Austrian Army Russo - Romanian Theater 23 July 1917

 

[AUGUST, 1916 - Ist Corps - I. Korps - I. Armeekorps]

a) Sector I reserve Corps, stretching from Suraia to a line which would cut Putna valley and Susita, with south-north direction, between Ivancesti village and Satu Nou village. The terrain is flat with gorges, some of them with water some of them dry, with the west –east direction and and cut across by the road and railway Focsani –Marasesti, of which direction is north-south. General von Morgen, the commander of the Ist reserve Corps, had in this sector, without counting the divisions, 89 prusian, 12 bavarian and 216 saxon, which were making the Ist Corps, of two more divisions: reserve 76 and 115. To have the troops concentrated in the attack zone itself, Divission 12th Bavarian, which previously occupied the shore of Siret, between Biliesti and Suraia, was withdraw and taken south of Padurea Neagra (black forrest), between Paraipan and Biliesti. In the place of this division was created a new one, Divission 303 commnded by General Wehmer-made out of seven infantry battalions de Landsturm, taken from the occupation force of Muntenia. this subsector will have a pure defensive and observation role ...

As a reserve for the IXth army there were: german Division 12 at Focsani ...

AUGUST, 1917

216 INFANTRY DIVISION

182 INFANTRY DIVISION

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp.  684-686. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up  

AUGUST ENGAGEMENTS

RUMANIA

AUGUST 6, 1917 - AUGUST 19, 1917

[AUGUST]

The Breakthrough of the Russian Front.

In the night of 5-6 August the german artillery started a strong bombardment over the line Faurei-Siret and over the eastern shore of Siret river, south of Movileni. Shells of different calibers, grenades, shrapnel, machinguning, they were all falling like the rain over the Russian lines between the railway and Siret river, and also over the Romanian positions across the river. Towards morning, waves of axfixiant gass emerged from the enemy lines especially over Padurea Neagra( Black Forrest), chocking the air into a dense fog. Between the clocks 4 and 7 in the morning the bombardment reached an extreme of violence.

General von Morgen had the order to execute with the Ist german Corps the breakthrough of the Russian front. He had thus aligned on the first line of the front three divisions: 12th Division on the right side leaned over Siret river, 89th Division on the left ,at Faureni; 76th Division in the middle, between the other two. Behind 12th Division he sat 216th Division, and in the reserve he kept the 115th Division.

Like a restrained resort, which unstrains instantly, he then started the attack at 7:30 in the morning, the infantery of the three german divisions against the russian lines. It wasn’t even needed so much power. The Russians are leaving, one by one their strong positions. Till midday they lose three lines of defence, which was one in front of the other. The germans cross Putna river on the northern shore, then they cross Sovarga valley and finally Putna-Seaca valley. The 12th german Division occupied the village Radulesti, Padurea-Neagra,and then Ciuslea village ....

At the left wing of the Ist german Corps, the 76th Division and the left wing of the 89th Division conquered the forrest Balta-Ratei (The Duck_Pond), pushing the left wing of the 13th Russian Division, neighbor with the 34th Russian Division, captured thus ten cannons positioning themselves in the front of Bizighesti village. Between the two wings which were going to left and right, Morgen pushed the  216th Division, which was in reserve till then, and by nightfall occupied Strajescu village without fight. The village has been evacuated by the Russians in their hasty run.

In the night of that day, the german victory seemed complete. The Russian front has been broken on a length of 10km at right, along the Siret river and with 3km along the railway Focsani-Marasesti. The Russian forces were blown away, some of them crossed on the left side of the Siret shore, under the protection of the Romanian artillery, and the big chunk was running disorderly to the north, leaving their strongholds one after the other, without putting up the slightest of fights. It was after the expression of a Russian historyograph “the first act of cowardice made by the Russians on the Romanian front”. Many will follow ...

Mackensen renounces at the plan of crossing Siret. After not being able to do “the surprise crossing”, von Eben reports that neither the plan of “crossing the river by force” has more of a chance. The front shore of the river is well fortified with Romanian troops and artillery,and this artillery is wonderfully shooting making heavy losses in the day to 12th bavarian Division. Today the german attack would have in the ribs also the 5th romanian Division, which is on the righy shore of Siret. This enterprise will be risky and exposed to a bloody failure. So the plan of crossing the SIret is renounced altogether: the 12th Bavarian Division is let to rest and observe on the shore of the river, and Morgen receives the order to push with full strength the other three divisions -216,76,89 - and to put in to the fighting line also the 115th Division, which was kept in reserve. Morgen attacks with full power the front of the 5th romanian Division. The german artillery starts to bobard the Russian-romanian lines, mostly the points Bizichesti, Moara-Alba, Moara –Rosie and Doaga village; the artillery of the 5th romanian divisions responds with”shot by shot” The germans have discovered the vulnerable point of the Romanian front At the right wing of the romanians are the leftovers of the 34th russian Division. One column of the 89th german Division attacks this very spot. The russians don’t hesitate much and run off their positions, leaving the right Romanian flank uncovered. Through this breach, storms the thick of the 76th german division, to turn the Romanian position. It is a critical moment. General Razu, the commander of the 5th Romanian Division, sends two battalions of the 7th Regiment, which he kept till then in reserve, behind the 32th Regiment. The romanians arrive in a hurry, they attack in point 77 the enemy, which was coming from Bizighesti, managing to stop the “stream of germans “and to fill the breach.

The preparations for the final german attack are finished around 11 o’clock. All the artillery has been brought near the new front,and the troops of the three german divisions: 89,76 and 216 are ready to throw themselves over the line occupied by the for Romanian regiments:7,32,3 and 8.At half past eleven, the german bombardment, ignited from cannons of all kind of calibers, especially 105 caliber and 150, becomes frightening. Our positions( romanian) organized in haste, during the night, by the troops tiered by marching all day, are carefully distroied. The german artillery aimings, goes over and beyond our lines to the reserves. In Jugastru valley,a company of 32 Regiment, gathered here, without trenches is completely destroyed-amongst the dead is also their commander, Captain Andreescu. The bridge over Siret, from Cosmest i, is bombed with 210mm shells ....

The attack of the 8th of August was combined with the attack of the Gerock Group, on the mountaineous front of the west ...The attack will be commenced by the 115th german Division, which was kept in reserve, at Faurei; she was elongated by 89th and 76th divisions, on a line from Ivancesti, on Putna-the south of Calin forrest, in the Susita elbow. The right flank of the german attack front was defended by the 212th Division along Siret, in the region Ciuslea-Radulesti, replacing thus the 12th bavarian Division which was taken out and brought back to Faureni ...

With all the yesterday’s succes on the Russian Front, the german commandment has no reason to be pleased: the target proposed by the new offensive to north-west has not been touched and the line Clipicesti-Diocheti was still far away. So the action wil continue doday with power in the same direction and by the same units, as yesterday, by the 115th, 89th and 78th divisions, from east to west. In the left of the german attack sector, the 62nd austro-hungarian Division will join the fight, as far as the circumstances will permit, and on the right side, the  216th german division will attack the positon occupied by the 5th romanian Division. Along Siret, in Ciuslea sector, the 212th and 303rd german divisions will maintain their resistance positions, facing east. The main blow will be received by the 71th Russian Division, seated in front of 76th and 89th german divisions, as well as the 13th russian Division, disposed in font of the 115th german Division and 62nd Austrian. The germans were following consecvent their tactic program: attacking only the Russian troops ...

All the gain made by the germns, with heavy losses, is now lost. Towards east, the artillery on the left shore of Siret violently bombards in flank the german lines, making big losses to  216th, 212th and 303rd divisions. At the center, in the middle of the duel of the two artilleries adversary, which does not weakens the strength, german troops attack the front ...The commander of the Romanian battalion takes measures for defence, by rising a wall of dead bodies in the driveway trench; the germans ar doing the same on the other side and, sheltered by this double dead bodies wall  ...

The offensive action wil be given on the whole front of 5th and 9th Divisions, with the involvement of the Russian divisions from the right. As the Romanian command was taking measures ,the german commandment, was measuring himself for a great offensive which he has also planned for the same day. Under the impression of the success obtained yesterday on the Russian front, Mackensen was sure that he will be able to give today a major blow. This was supposed to be made out of two attacks: one attack wil be given at the left side of the IXth german Army, in the sector of XVIIIth Wenninger Corps, which was inactive up until now. The concentrations of forces of this Corps was now complete. The Alpine Corps was now in position, over imposed between 62nd Austrian Division, which has gathered her front- and 115th German Division. The 13th Austrian Division was in the Corps reserve, and the 217th Division was taken from Gallawitz Army, and passed under the orders of XVIIIth Corps. Wenninger wil attack with the Alpine Corps, leaned on the right, by 1st german Corps: Morgen will attack wit 76th and 12th Bavarian Divisions - the las one taken again into front, after rest and recovery. He will hit the Russian troops, made out from the remains of the 71st and 34th Divisions, along the driveway and railway Focsani-Marasesti-Adjud,in the right flank of the 9th Romanian Division. So ,a double offensive, both hitting the Russian troops. The day of 11th August was announced to be a bloody one, filled with high hopes, both sides. The German offensive has started in the morning in Wenninger sector. The Alpine Corps attacks fith full strength the 15th Russian Division, assaulting Poiana village, advancing all the way in to Susita valley. At the left the Austrians have occupied the village Sirb. The German front has made in this way an important advance; he mastered Susita valley,Putna valley up to Vitanesti....

The Germans confess that their divisions,  216th and 76th have sufferd this day great losses, because of the Romanian artillery fire on the eastern shore of Siret river ....

on the left shore of Siret river, in front of the 212th and 303rd German Divisions. ...

The 9th day, 14th of August

The Germans have concentrated against the Romanian position of Prisaca Forest the whole 216th Division, which has been given to dispose of a very powerful artillery of all calibers, especially a lot of heavy artillery. The bombardment have started during the previous night and continued all morning. In the afternoon it has reached an intensity almost unknown till then. Shells of big caliber ,especially 150 mm, explosives mines, bombards, grenades, shrapnels, are beating like stonerain over the defensive workings. The terrain being weak in this sandy field of Siret River, the works are easily destroyed. The sticks of the wire nets are pulled altogether, the trenches are undone, burring alive the defenders. Clouds of smoke, of axfixiant gas and tear gas unfolds then everything in thick veil black-redish. It is complete blackness. It is an Inferno. At 5 in the afternoon the bombardment has reached paroxysm. Their effects are crushing. The entires of the first and the second Romanian defensive lines does not exist anymore; the strongholds of the third line are turned over as well. The phone lines, between battalions, artillery and commandments are destroyed. The soldiers in the trenches are killed by bombardment or axfixiated by gas and covered by the blowing Earth. The enemy artillery is elongating its aiming; She hits Cosmesti village, the bridge over Siret and the opposite shore, to stop any attempt of help. A cloud of axfixiant gas is waved down over the artillery of the 14th Division; all servants of a battery (four cannons) are out of service. At 7:45 in the evening ,under the protection of a cloud of dust and smoke, the Germans are beginning their attack. One column, in the power of almost two regiments, attacks in the connection point of 8th and 9th Romanian Regiments. The defenders are few and weak. It is the 9th day since the 5th Romanian Division is in the first line of fire, receiving blow after blow; the effectives of the Division are reduced at one third of what was in the beginning, and the man , unexchanged, are torn with exhaust at body and soul. The strongholds workings, destroyed cannot oppose any resistance; the soldiers of the Ist Battalion of the 8yh Regiment are pushed back and the front is broken. The enemy flow is pouring more and more and the breach is widened .The Germans open in three columns: one towards the left ...

15th-18th of August.

Mackensen has choose for applying the decisive blow, the Romanian portion of front between Panciu and Marasesti. The position was occupied in this sector by 13th Romanian Division and what was left from the heavy trialed 9th Division. On the map it draws an oblique line north-west-south –east, stretched from east of Dumbrava Village, where it was connected with the 10th Division, passing then south-west of the Razoare Forest, cutting the railway Marasesti-Panciu close to the height point 100,cutting the railways Focsani-Marasesti and Marasesti-Tecuci one half kilometer south of the Fabrica de Zahar(sugar factory) to link with the 14th Romanian Division near an arm of Siret River, one km or so further fromn the estern corner of Marasesti Village . In this sector, Mackensen proceeded in the days of 17th-18th of August to a new grouping of forces of infantry and artillery. Five infantry Divisions have constituted the attack group, which command has been given to Commander von Morgen. It was ,starting from north –west towards south-east, the 13th Austro-Hungarian Division, in the right angle of the railway Marasesti-Panciu; The 115th German Division , in continuation, south –east of the first one; the 76th German Division , south of Marasesti; in reserve has been brought the 89th German Division and set behind 115th and 12th Divisions.I n the left side of the attack group was XVIIIth German Corps; at the right Divisions 216th, 212th and 303rd;they will sustain with all their infantry and artillery the primer blow, which will be given by the attack group. The five Divisions of this, aimed against two Romanian Divisions were making, of course , a crushing superiority. The Marshall was sure that the day of 19th will bring him the so long waited success ...

The battle has begun at 6th of August by attacking the front, made exclusively by Russian troops. The Russian position of Iresti to Siret River, which constituted the fighting zone itself, was occupied by three Russian divisions The Austro Germans were opposing, on the same stretch, seven divisions. In the attack zone, between Siret and the railway, three German Divisions-76th,  216th and 12th have attacked the 34th Russian Division. The unfolding of the battle constituted then a double manoeuvre .On one side, the Germans have stretched , step by step the fighting zone westward, until the Muncelu plateau , in constant search of points of lesser resistance, represented by the Russian sectors ...

For the attack [August 6, 1917] which was to start from Focpni [Focsani] the following were placed in readiness under the command of Lt.-Gen. von Morgen (I. Res. Corps): the 12th Bavarian Inf. Div., 76th Res. Inf. Div., and the 89th Inf. Div., to be followed in second line by the 216th Inf. Div. As army reserve there stood at Focpni  [Focsani] the 212th and 115th Inf. Divs. On Aug. 6 the attack began, and had indeed the desired success on the first day in a N.W. direction. The attempt to cross to the E. bank of the Sereth, however, failed ...

A bridge-head on the W. bank of the Sereth threatening the German flank, held by the Rumanian 5th Div., was stormed by the 216th Inf. Div. of the I. Res. Corps on Aug. 14, severe losses being inflicted on the Rumanians. The further attempts of the I. Res. Corps, under which was placed the newly arrived 13th Rifle Div., to advance over the line Marasesti - Panciu, failed through Russian and Rumanian counter-attacks ...

On Aug. 28 the XVIII. Res. Corps, with the 216th Inf. Div. and the Alpine Corps, attacked from the line Panciu - N. edge of the Mt. Odobeshti in a N.W. direction, to gain the upper course of the Susita. After stubborn engagements lasting for many days against the Rumanian II. Corps, Jresci and the heights S. of the Susita were captured, upon which practically the old line, as it stood before the Rumanian attack, was reached. On Sept. 3 attacks from the German side were again suspended.

http://www.armyacademy.ro/e-learning/working/capitol_6.html

AUGUST, 1917

Battle of Marasesti (August-September 1917) ...

Both Divisions 216 Infantry and 212 Infantry Locations Can Be Seen near Focsani

http://www.worldwar2.ro/foto/?id=274&section=9&article=117

AUGUST, 1917

VALUE - 1917 ESTIMATE

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp.  684-686. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up  

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INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

AUGUST 21, 1917 - FEBRUARY 28, 1919:

408. Infanterie-Brigade / 212. Infanterie-Division

wiki-de.genealogy.net/IR_182

Übergeordnete Einheiten - Parent Units

ab 12.01.1917: 212. Infanterie-Division - From 12.01.1917: 212 Infanterie-Division

Untergeordnete Einheiten - Subordinate Units

(kgl. Sächs.) Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 415: 13.01.1917 - 28.02.1919
(kgl. Sächs.) Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 416: 13.01.1917 - Jan. 1919
16. Kgl. Sächs. Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182:  21.08.1917 - 28.02.1919

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/408._Infanterie-Brigade

AND
1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

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212 DIVISION

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ROMANIA (ROUMANIA) 1917-1918

SEPTEMBER, 1917 - FEBRUARY 18, 1918

MACKENSEN ARMY GROUP

9TH ARMY I (GERMAN) RESERVE CORPS: VON MORGAN
 (Robert von Kosch: Commander On 1 May 1917 replacing Erich von Falkenhayn)

212 DIVISION

182 INFANTRY REGIMENT

212th DIVISION (1917-1918)

(INDEPENDENT DIVISION)

212 INFANTRY DIVISION (SAXON), 408TH (SAXON) INFANTRY BRIGADE,
16 ROYAL SAXON, 182 INFANTRY REGIMENT, 9TH COMPANY

JANUARY, 1917

212 INFANTRY DIVISION

In January 1917, the division was reorganized ... Later its infantry composition was completely changed until the Division from being Prussian became entirely Saxon ...

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp.  674-676. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up 

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212 INFANTRY DIVISION

182 INFANTRY

MARCH 25, 1917 - SEPTEMBER, 1917

[SEPTEMBER, 1917]

3. Relieved about March 25 [1917], before the attacks [in France] began and sent to Roumania.
The 415th and 416th [Saxon regiments] were sent to the Russian-Roumanian front (region of Braila in July, then Focsani-Tecucin). The division was brought up to three regiments by the assignment of the 182d (from the 216th Division - [An Independent Division]), a Saxon regiment. The division suffered heavy losses, especially the 182d Infantry, on September 9.

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), p.  675. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up

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MARCH 21, 1917 - MARCH 31, 1917

212 INFANTRY DIVISION TRANSPORT TO RUMANIA

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/212._Infanterie-Division_%28WK1%29

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MARCH 27, 1917 - MAY 30, 1917

212 INFANTRY DIVISION IN RUMANIA - ARMY GROUP MACKENSEN

Rumänien

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/212._Infanterie-Division_%28WK1%29

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MAY 30, 1917 - AUGUST 5, 1917

212 INFANTRY DIVISION IN RUMANIA - WAR OF POSITION

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/212._Infanterie-Division_%28WK1%29

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JULY 22 - JULY 25, 1917

212 INFANTRY DIVISION IN RUMANIA - DEFENSIVE BATTLES

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/212._Infanterie-Division_%28WK1%29

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JULY 23, 1917

212 INFANTRY DIVISION IN RUMANIA

Austrian Army Russo - Romanian Theater 23 July 1917

MACKENSEN ARMY GROUP

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JULY 26 - AUGUST 5, 1917

212 INFANTRY DIVISION IN RUMANIA - BREAKTHROUGH BATTLE

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/212._Infanterie-Division_%28WK1%29

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AUGUST 21, 1917

Battle of Marasesti (July 24 - August 21, 1917)

Division 212 Infantry Location Can Be Seen near Focsani
(Note: D. 216 not indicated on this version below D. 12 Bav.)

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?523075-WIP-The-WW1-mappack-%28-
 New-map-video-GALICIA-p-27-new-map-Easternfront-p29-fort-de-Vaux-p31%29/page4

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BY SEPTEMBER, 1914

212 INFANTRY DIVISION

182 INFANTRY REGIMENT

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 674-675  - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up

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AUGUST, 1917

SEPTEMBER, 1917

182 INFANTRY REGIMENT TRANSFERRED
FROM THE 216 INFANTRY DIVISION TO THE 212 INFANTRY DIVISION

SEPTEMBER, 1917

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp.  684-686. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up  

Max von Hausen

ON THE MACEDONIAN FRONT

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BATTLE OF MARASESTI [RUMANIA]

Battle of Marasesti (August-September 1917) ...

Both Divisions 216 Infantry and 212 Infantry Locations Can Be Seen near Focsani

http://www.worldwar2.ro/foto/?id=274&section=9&article=117

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SEPTEMBER ENGAGEMENTS

RUMANIA

SEPTEMBER 9, 1917

212 INFANTRY DIVISION

182 INFANTRY REGIMENT

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1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

SEPTEMBER 20 - OCTOBER 12, 1917

KRAUSE IN HOSPITAL - FREIBERG, GERMANY
20/09/1917   Hospital Activity: "Jäger Battalion 12", Company 3: Hospital, "St. Johannis", Freiberg, Sachsen
06/10/1917 - 07/10/1917 Hospital, "St. Johannis", Freiberg, Sachsen
12/10/1917   Hospital Activity: Hospital, "St. Johannis", Freiberg, Sachsen

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OCTOBER 15, 1917

        LIEUTENANT HANS WOLFGANG REINHARD [11 December 1888 – 6 October 1950]

NOVEMBER 28, 1917

EGON VON NEINDORFF

http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Personenregister/N/NeindorffEv.htm

 

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1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

DECEMBER 1, 1917

JÄGER BATAILLON NR. 12

Note: FRIEDRICH WILHELM "WILLIE" KRAUSE did not go to the Italian Front

Divisional Structure 1918

Jäger-Division part of the 54th Corps z.b.V [sur besonderen verwendung]

German Second Army

Divisional Order of Battle 1918

5th Ersatz Infantry Brigade

Jäger-Division (Deutsches Kaiserreich)

Die Division wurde während des Ersten Weltkriegs am 14. September 1917

gebildet und während des Kriegsverlaufs zunächst an der Italien-, dann an der Westfront eingesetzt. ...

[The division was formed during the First World War on 14 September 1917

and used during the course of the war, first on the Italy, then on the Western Front]

[15 September to 15 October --- deployment behind the Isonzo front 3rd to 23rd of October --- positional fighting on the Isonzo ....]

[NOTE: Jäger-Regiment Nr. 12 was not mentioned in 1917]

War division of 26 April 1918

5th Replacement Infantry Brigade

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DECEMBER 10, 1917 - MAY 7, 1918

TRUCE ON THE ROMANIAN FRONT

212 DIVISION

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/212._Division_%289._
K%C3%B6niglich_S%C3%A4chsische%29


DECEMBER 9, 1917

RUMANIA

DECEMBER, 1917 - DECEMBER 20, 1917- BEGINNING OF 1918

212 INFANTRY DIVISION

182 INFANTRY REGIMENT

4. In December the division was relieved from the sector west of Tecutin. The 415th and 416th were identified southeast of Panciu December 14; the 182d, northwest of Namoloasa, on the 20th.

RECRUITING

The division at the end of 1917 was entirely Saxon.

VALUE - 1917 ESTIMATE

Remained on the Roumanian front during a part of 1917 and the beginning of 1918. Moderate fighting value.

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp.  674-676. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up  

DECEMBER 21, 1917 - DECEMBER 31, 1917

KRAUSE ON THE EASTERN FRONT - TRANSYLVANIA

21/12/1917 31/12/1917 Hospital Activity: Auskunftsnebenstelle Kronstadt [Information Extension Kronstad  (Brasov) [Rumania] in Southern Transylvania?)]

DECEMBER 10, 1917 - MAY 7, 1918

212 INFANTRY DIVISION IN RUMANIA

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/212._Infanterie-Division_%28WK1%29

DECEMBER 9, 1917

Truce of Focsani

  • 09.12.1917: Waffenstillstand von Focşani

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/HGr._Mackensen_%28Rum%C3%A4nien%29

1918

212th DIVISION (INDEPENDENT DIVISION)
212 INFANTRY DIVISION (SAXON), 408TH (SAXON) INFANTRY BRIGADE,
16 ROYAL SAXON, 182 INFANTRY REGIMENT, 9TH COMPANY

1918

The German Forces in the Field, 6th Revision, April 1918, Independent Divisions, p. 151 - http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027944838

JANUARY 30, 1918

MAX MORGENSTERN-DÖRING (Replaced Franz Francke]

COMMANDER - 212 INFANTRY DIVISION

http://home.comcast.net/~jcviser/army/id3.htm

JANUARY 30, 1918 - MARCH, 1919

MAX MORGENSTERN-DÖRING

DIVISION COMMANDER

212 INFANTRY DIVISION

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/212._Infanterie-Division_%28WK1%29

JANUARY 30, 1918 - MARCH, 1919

212 INFANTRY DIVISION

DIVISION COMMANDER

Kommandeure

Generalmajor Max Morgenstern-Döring 30. Januar 1918 bis März 1919

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/212._Division_%289._
K%C3%B6niglich_S%C3%A4chsische%29

FEBRUARY 9, 1918

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

GERMAN EAST ARMY

VOLHYNIA, KIEV, KHARKOV

FEBRUARY 11, 16 - 24, 28, 1918

182 INFANTRY REGIMENT

Friedrich Wilhelm Krause

11/02/1918   16. Infantry, Regiment No. 182, 9 Company: In Braila, Rumania?
16/02/1918 - 24/02/1918 1. Ersatz-Batl. 16. Inf.- Regt. No. 182 1. Garn.-Komp: In Braila, Rumania
17/02/1918   16. Infantry, Regiment No. 182, 9 Company: In Braila, Rumania
28/02/1918   16. Infantry, Regiment No. 182, 9 Company: In Braila, Rumania?

Brăila

http://content.answcdn.com/main/content/img/factbook/maps/ro-map.gif

ROUMANIA

APRIL 15, 1918

212 INFANTRY DIVISION

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp.  674-676. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up  

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APRIL 19, 1918

    

MAY 7, 1918

Treaty of Bucharest

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/HGr._Mackensen_%28Rum%C3%A4nien%29

MAY, 1918

MACKENSEN GROUP AND 9TH ARMY 1ST RESERVE

May - June, 1918

9th Army - Transferred to western Front: June 19, 1918
Group Mackenson Group: Retreated from Rumania: November 10, 1918

The German army in World War I.: 1917-18, Volume 3 By Nigel Thomas, Ramiro Bujeiro, p. 14 -
http://books.google.ca/books?id=AodiUXZo5R0C&pg=
PA7&lpg=PA7&dq=%22september
+1917%22+%22rumania22&source=bl&ots=QqrGdoPxzO&sig=
tZG8V1CF0FayklzWrn3fGsI0Ijk&hl=en&ei=MhETeapBIOC8gbOsZGzAQ&sa
=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAw#v=snippet&q=212&f=false

http://books.google.ca/books?id=_1PJ4GwRSKUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:
1780965753&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4v-XUpCEL7PQsATbg4GIBg&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v
=onepage&q&f=false - Page 14

JULY 1, 1918

Renamed Occupation Army Romania

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/HGr._Mackensen_%28Rum%C3%A4nien%29

OCTOBER 10, 1918

Collapse of the Bulgarian front, Re-declaration of war Romania

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/HGr._Mackensen_%28Rum%C3%A4nien%29

 NOVEMBER 10, 1918

The Army Group was Disbanded

  • 10.11.1918: Die Heeresgruppe wurde aufgelöst.

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/HGr._Mackensen_%28Rum%C3%A4nien%29

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212 DIVISION

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 TAURIDA

FEBRUARY 18, 1918 - 1922

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I Reserve Corp - General Kosch

212 DIVISION

182 INFANTRY REGIMENT

TAURIDA

1918 - 1921

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INTRODUCTION TO TAURIDA

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According to 251 Division book IR182 was in:

212 Division in 1917-1918 Roumania/Ukraine

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=24278 and http://www.1914-18.info/

PRE-GERMAN OCCUPATION INTRODUCTION

http://www.zum.de/whkmla/region/russia/xgovtaurida.html 

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Terretory_given_away_after_Brest-Litovsk.jpg

http://www.traveltoukraine.org/images/ukraine_map_big.jpg

 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c5/Taurida_Governornate_Map.jpg

http://www.acpasion.net/foro/showthread.php?t=26761&page=128

http://www.zum.de/whkmla/region/russia/xgovtaurida.html

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GERMAN OCCUPATION INTRODUCTION

1918

212 INFANTRY DIVISION

 
In 1918, the 16. Royal Saxon Infantry Regiment 182 was now within the 212th Division (Saxon) ... [Independent Division]
INDEPENDENT DIVISION

212 INFANTRY DIVISION
 
212th DIVISION (SAXON) - (Field Post No. 757.)
(Maj.-Gen. Francke) [Command of the 212th]
408th (Saxon) Infantry Brigade.
(Maj.-Gen. De Vaux)
182nd (16th Saxon) Infantry Regt.
XII Corps District

[1918: That is, the 16. Royal Saxon Infantry Regiment 182 had been incorporated into the 212th Division (Saxon)]

Great Britain. War Office. General Staff, The German forces in the field (1918), pp. 51-54, 151

http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027944838

FEBRUARY, 1918 - NOVEMBER, 1918

German Occupation: February, 1918 - November, 1918

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MARCH, 1918 - NOVEMBER, 1918

March, 1918 to November, 1918

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MARCH, 1918 - NOVEMBER, 1918

As of March, 1918 - November 1918

Central Powers Occupation Force in the Ukraine - 1918

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212 DIVISION

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THE BATTLES TO OCCUPY TAURIDA

FEBRUARY 18 - MARCH 3, 1918 - MAY 10, 1918

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https://fedora.e-book.fwf.ac.at/fedora/get/o:850/bdef:Content/get - the emergence of ukraine self-determination, occupation, and war in ukraine, 1917–1922, p. 159

FEBRUARY 18, 1918

OCCUPATION OF THE UKRAINE

212 INFANTRY DIVISION

  • In the first echelon of the advancing occupational forces were the I Reserve Corps [Ist Reserve Corps] and the group of southern divisions: the 10th, 7th, 212th, and 214th. The rest of the corps were moved up in proportion as the territory was occupied. The German forces began their advance on the 18th of February;* [The Austrian corps launched their offensive on the 28th of February] ...

FEBRUARY 18, 1918 - APRIL 8, 1918

  • By 18 February 1918, the Russians had evacuated the last zone occupied by them in Eastern Galicia (Western Ukraine), which was immediately reoccupied by the Austrians. There began on the same day a rapid movement by the Germans eastward along the railway lines. The southern wing (Lisingen) went via Rovno/Rivne [Ukraine] and Zhitomir [Ukraine], such that, by the end of February, it was before Kiev [Ukraine], which was occupied on 3rd March. The Germans then occupied Odessa on the 13th [March], Nikolaev/Mykolaiv [Ukraine] on the 17th [March] and Khar'kov/Kharkiv [Eastern Ukraine] on 8 April 1918 ...

-The Austro-Hungarian Army in the Ukraine: March-November 1918 by Dan Grecu, pp. 74-75 - http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00076781/00041/76j , http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00076781/00041/78j and http://membres.multimania.fr/dgrecu/AUtxt.html

  • In the situation at the time, it was only assistance from the Central Powers that could have rescued the Central Rada and its government. On the night of 8–9 February, a peace treaty was signed between the Ukrainian People’s Republic and the Central Powers. On 18 February, after a formal request for military assistance from the UNR, German troops began to advance into Ukrainian territory. They were followed ten days later by Austro-Hungarian units. On 8 May 1918 German troops occupied Rostov on the Don, having crossed the Ukrainian border and driven the Bolsheviks from Ukrainian territory. Earlier, on 28 March 1918, an agreement was signed on establishing the “zones of influence” of the “occupying powers.”49 All this was portrayed as military assistance for an ally. In the initial period the occupying troops were forbidden to take military action against the local population in the event of “unfriendly actions” (which rarely occurred

  • The Invasion of Ukraine by the Central Powers, February to May 1918 ...

Throughout the campaign, the Germans had to improvise in order to make up for inadequate military preparations. At the beginning of March, the troops were increased to nine divisions, later to twelve, organized in three army corps: Korps Gronau (later renamed the XXXXI Reserve Corps) in the north covered the border with Soviet Russia; Groener’s I Army Corps in the center was to advance on Poltava and Kharkiv; in the south, Korps Knoerzer was to advance in the direction of the Sea of Azov and later into the Donets Basin.7 The Germans wanted in particular to gain control of the fertile agricultural land in the Crimea, while providing the new Ukrainian state with a solid economic foundation by taking the coal reserves of the Donets Basin. In the far south, from 6 March, the 52nd Corps advanced from Romania toward the Black Sea ports with two infantry divisions, the Bavarian Cavalry Division, and the Austro-Hungarian 145th Infantry Brigade, which all came from the 9th Army (Army Group Mackensen).8 ...

AFTER FEBRUARY 18, 1918

PODOLIA

AUSTRIAN ARMY

  • [After February 18 and February 28, 1918] On the coasts of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov and in Podolia, the Germans were already operating jointly with the Austrians: three Austrian corps - the XII, XVII, and XXV with a total number of 11 1/2 divisions (15th, 59th, 34th, 11th, 30th, 31st, 32rd, 54th, and 154th infantry divisions and the 2nd and 7th cavalry divisions and the 145th Infantry Brigade) were marching preparatory to the occupation of Podolia and the Odessa area (XXV Corps), the Kherson area (XII Corps), and Yekaterinoslav area (XIII Corps).

FEBRUARY 20, 1918

BATTLE STATUS

212 INFANTRY DIVISION

182 INFANTRY REGIMENT

212. Division (9. Königlich Sächsische)

Kriegsgliederung vom 20. Februar 1918

  • 408. Infanterie-Brigade

    • Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182

    • Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 415

    • Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 416

    • 1. Eskadron/1. Königlich Sächsisches Husaren-Regiment „König Albert“ Nr. 18

  • Artillerie-Kommandeur Nr. 212

    • Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr. 279

    • II. Abteilung/1. Garde-Reserve-Fußartillerie-Regiment

  • Pionier-Bataillon Nr. 212

  • Divisions-Nachrichten-Kommandeur Nr. 212

MARCH, 1918

UKRAINE

  • The French inherited a most dangerous situation, which required a political finesse. On the one hand, the Austrian- German troops stationed in Russia were part of the armistice (about a million people). The Germans were reluctant to help the French and Bolsheviks attacked and sabotaged wherever they could.

The Austrian\German forces had been in the area since March 1918. .... The Germans could have easily caused way more problems than they did, so in that sense, the French were lucky! After the French units arrived [1918-1919], the 15th German division moved to Nikolaïeff and the idle time proved damaging to some Germans who were influenced by the Reds. Its officers, lacking in all authority, failed to control some men. The Germans delayed sending delegates to Kharkov, to negotiate with the commissioner of Moscow. Vice-Admiral Hopman (the former commander of the German fleet of the Black Sea), was sent to delay the implementation of armistice in South Russia, and to apprise the French authorities of the state of affairs and to await instructions. Fortunately, General d'Anselme received information on the arrival of a couple of battalions from the 7th Greek Regiment hurried from Salonica. Destined for Nikolaïeff, Anselme invited Admiral Hopman to prepare for the relief of German soldiers according to the armistice. Hopman, dragged his feet about this, allowing his men to be disruptive to its implementation. Nearby, there was close danger from an attack by red forces. Gregorieff , controlled Red forces near Ekaterinoslav and threatened Nikolaïeff and Kherson. The Reds entered Kiev and advanced towards Kharkov opposed by White Forces near the Sea of Azov. His military equipment came from the older Austrian-Hungarian stockpiles, they were no substitute for German soldiers ...

MARCH, 1918

  • With the dissolution of the Donau-Armee in March 1918, Kosch and his GenKdo 52 [52nd Corps - Army of the Danube] troops were tasked with the occupation of Ukraine ...

  • However, in spite of these rivalries and mutual dislike, military comradeship functioned more or less at the regional level, as, for instance, in southern Ukraine, with the 52nd Corps under General Robert Kosch

MARCH, 1918

OCCUPATION OF THE UKRAINE

KOSCH

212 INFANTRY DIVISION

MARCH, 1918

KOSH

GENERAL COMMAND 52 [52nd Corps]

  • Nach Auflösung der Donau-Armee im März 1918 nahm Kosch als Führer des Generalkommandos 52 an der Besetzung der Ukraine und der Kämpfe gegen die Rote Armee teil ...

    • After dissolution of the Danube Army in March 1918 Kosch took part in the occupation of the Ukraine and the fighting against the Red Army as a leader of the General Command 52 ...

MARCH 2, 1918

KIEV ENTERED

  • on March 2nd the German troops entered Kiev ...

MARCH 3, 1918

  • Following the terms of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, on 3 March, "Linsingen" (later 'Eichhorn-Kiew') commenced a brutal occupation of the Chernihiv, Kharkov, Kiev, Poltava, Taurida, and Volhynia provinces of northern and eastern Ukraine ...

  • [ Thomas Nigel Thomas and Ramiro Bujeiro, German Army in World War I, 1917-18: 1917-1918 (Published by Osprey Publishing, 2004), p. 13] - [Baron Mumm von Schwarzenstein was the ambassador]

MARCH 3, 1918

KIEV SEIZED

  • German Ukrainian Offensive To clear the Bolsheviks out of the Ukraine, the Germans and Austrians dispatched an expeditionary force into the Ukraine. They seized Kiev on March 3rd ... The Ukraine became a critical granary for the Central Powers, which faced severe food shortages due to the Allied blockade ...

MARCH 3, 1918

IN ZHMERINKA

  • and on the 3rd of March they were in Zhmerinka [Central Ukraine] ....

MARCH 3, 1918

  • On 3 March 1918 Trotskii and his fellow delegates at Brest Litovsk negotiated a treaty between the new Lenin government and the Central powers which would cede Ukraine to its nationalist claimants and their German-Austrian allies who controlled the key portions of the region by now. Viewed as hated foreign invaders by most Ukrainians, the Austro-German forces arrived in die south Ukrainian Mennonite colonies as liberators from their Bolshevik over-lords, and much needed force for order and stability ....

MARCH 3, 1918 

I. ARMEEKORPS

  • The railway campaign, February-May 1918 ... German troops occupied the Ukraine in a Blitzkrieg-style campaign, although the quality of the army in the East was rather poor. Most of the younger ranks and the best officers had been transferred to units on the Western Front. ...

The forces initially designated for this mission were relatively small in numbers: only six infantry and Landwehr divisions as well as one cavalry brigade. Yet, the campaign quickly gained momentum due to various unforeseen factors.

The Germans soon realized that they had to rely on speed and surprise in order to achieve their mission. Hence, only two days after the start of the campaign they decided to advance not on roads, but largely on railway lines instead. Even though Ukrainian public life lay in a state of anarchy, the railways remained functional and the personnel supported the Germans ... Instead of advancing on a broad front the Germans concentrated on key terrain, mostly communication centres. German troops advanced on trains to the next major station, took Bolsheviks or Red Guards prisoner, jumped onto the trains again, and moved further east. The operation in the Ukraine became the 'railway campaign'.  

The Korps Knoerzer, which served as the spearhead in the campaign noted: 'Taking into account the strength of our forces it is not possible to occupy the whole Ukraine. It is about to take quickly the provincial capitals and economic centres' ... ... In this sense General Wilhelm Groener, in March/April 1918 Commander of I Armee-Korps, wrote to Ludendorff on 22 March, 'We urgently need more troops for the vast areas; otherwise we will lose our authority'....

 On 3 March the first German troops arrived in Kiev ... This meant they needed only two weeks to cross 340 miles from Kovel [North West Ukraine] on the armistice line to the Ukrainian capital ... From early March 1918 on, however, the campaign slowed down, as the Bolsheviks started to destroy parts of the infrastructure ...  Yet the onslaught to Rostov for another 560 miles did not take longer than another two months [early May]...

Dr. Peter Lieb, Chapter 13 - The German Occupation of the Ukraine, 1918 in World War I Companion, By Matthias Strohn http://books.google.ca/books?id=TZ65AQAAQBAJ&pg=PT219&lpg
=PT219&dq=%22I.+Armeekorps%22+1918&source=
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MARCH 7-14, 1918 [Seized March 13, 1918]

ODESSA

German Battle Locations in the Ukraine

February 18, 1918 - November, 1918

Ballantine's History of the First World War - http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=23191APRIL 20, 1918

MARCH 13, 1918

ODESSA SEIZED

MARCH 13, 1918

ODESSA

212 INFANTRY DIVISION
 

MARCH 17, 1918

NICOLAIEV SEIZED [NICOLAEV, NIKOLAYEZ, NIKOLAEV]

212 INFANTRY DIVISION

27th Jäger Battalion [of the Austro-Hungarian Army]: Subordinate to the 16th Infantry Brigade of the 30th Infantry Division on 28 February 1918. It was in Nikolaev/Mykoläiv on 1st June (in Odessa, according to other sources) with the German 212th Infantry Division [Independent Division] of the [Austro-Hungarian] 17th Army Corps. It was subordinate on 15th June to the 60th Brigade of the 30th Infantry Division; on 30th August with the German 42nd Infantry Division in Nikolaev, directly subordinate to the Ostarmee [German and Austo-Hungarian Eastern Army of occupation]. Under the 2nd Cavalry Division on 15th October ...

-The Austro-Hungarian Army in the Ukraine: March-November 1918 by Dan Grecu, pp. 74-75 - http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00076781/00041/76j , http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00076781/00041/78j and http://membres.multimania.fr/dgrecu/AUtxt.html

NOTE:

  • Only now I have learned that the 1800 Finnish volunteers - 27th Jäger Battalion - were trained in Germany ...

27th Jäger Battalion became a strong unit, which consisted of four infantry divisions, two machine guns and a sapper mouth, artillery battery, communications platoon and the cavalry unit. He was well-trained and gained military experience on the eastern front. For us it is vital to use the rangers as trainers and commanders of the units that will soon be formed of conscripts, especially as the huntsman, who has arrived in Finland and became commanders and teachers, a proven [102] training. The return of the battalion is welcome, even with pressure - every day was very expensive ...

MARCH 17, 1918

NICOLAIEV SEIZED [NICOLAEV, NIKOLAYEZ, NIKOLAEV]

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MARCH 20-APRIL 5, 1918

KHERSON

MARCH 21, 1918

KHERSON

MARCH 22-25, 1918 [Fell March 21, 1918]

KHERSON

German Battle Locations in the Ukraine

February 18, 1918 - November, 1918

Ballantine's History of the First World War - http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=23191APRIL 20, 1918

MARCH 29, 1918

LATE MARCH, 1918

SOUTH RUSSIA

212 INFANTRY DIVISION

MARCH 31, 1918

POLTAVA FALLS

 

APRIL 4, 1918 [Captured May 1, 1918]

SEVASTOPOL, CRIMEA

German Battle Locations in the Ukraine

February 18, 1918 - November, 1918

Ballantine's History of the First World War - http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=23191 , April 20, 1918

APRIL 5, 1918

EKATERINOSLAV

APRIL 5

EKATERINOSLAV SEIZED

APRIL 8, 1918

KHARKOV AND ROSTOV SEIZED

APRIL 15, 1918

ALEXANDROVSK

APRIL 15

ALEXANDROVSK FELL

APRIL 16, 1918 or APRIL 17, 1918

MELITOPOL

APRIL 16 OR 17, 1918

MELITOPOL AND NORTHERN PORTION OF SOUTH RUSSIA

212 INFANTRY DIVISION

APRIL 17

MELITOPOL FELL

APRIL 19, 1918

MOLOTSCHNA

  • [Hierschau] ... April 19, 1918   German troops occupied the area ...

    The German Occupation

    On Friday, April 19, 1918 German troops arrived in the Molotschna ...

  • Hierschau: an example of Russian Mennonite life By Helmut Huebert, pp. xxi, 238, 240-241, 250, 261

http://books.google.ca/books?id=vlCs3O2cTxkC&printsec=frontcover&dq
=Hierschau:+an+example+of+Russian+Mennonite+life+By+Helmut+Huebert&source
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APRIL 19, 1918

  • It was with relief that the Molotschna Mennonites greeted the German troops on April 19, 1918 ...

APRIL 19, 1918

APRIL 19, 1918

  • The arrival of German troops caught the Mennonites by surprise. The Mennonite world had isolated itself from the mainstream of events and existed within a sort of vacuum, relying to a great extent on rumours for information. Feelings of disbelief and then of relief swept through the colonies:

    Then [with the German occupation] came a short respite, during which tears and repentance were turned into expressions of gratitude and joy ....This was a most welcome period of peace, a breathing space sent by God ...

    Never in the history of the colonies had there been such celebration and expression of joy as on the day of the coming of the German armies ...

    Hurrah! Our liberators have finally arrived not quite, actually, but Melitopol, the neighboring town, has been taken. This time it's the truth.,..But we want to thank God for our liberation ...

    About 5 o'clock a long train of Prussians arrived in Halbstadt. They were greeted joyfully by the populace. It was such an up-lifting sight that one's eyes filled with tears ...

    On April 19 the first trainload of German troops arrived at the Lichtenau Station in Molotschna ... One observer described the atmosphere of mystery and excitement that preceeded the arrival of the troop train ...."big things are happening. Our tormentors have suddenly disappeared .... People are rushing to the railway depot"... Apparently there were no Russians or Ukrainians among this group, only Mennonites and a few Germans from nearby Prishib. "Tables were brought and set up on the platform; and as if by magic coffee and cookies and other foods appeared. Mennonite girls stood behind the tables ready to serve ....A train slowly approached. Soldiers in German uniform stood on the locomotive."... Then an incident occurred which shocked many of those present. Three prisoners, well-known bandits and murderers, were brought forward from one of the coaches and shot by the Germans in sight of everybody. To be sure, they were murderers, but they were also Ukrainians and they were being shot by German invaders in a town populated by German-speaking people who were welcoming them with joy and celebration ... The Mennonites thus firmly identified themselves with their "liberators". Had the Mennonites known, or even suspected, that the Germans would be forced to evacuate the Ukraine within nine months, they might have behaved quite differently ...

    Non-Mennonites were aware of the fact that some students were involved with the Selbstschutz. A. Reinmaris, for example, writes that, "Already on the second day after the "liberation", armed students from the Halbstadt Kommerzschule [Commerce School] were standing at their posts at the railway station". He is scornful of these "mennonitischer Bourgeois-Soehnehen" (little sons of the Mennonite Bourgeoisis ...

    • Josephine Chipman, The Mennonite Selbstschutz  in the Ukraine: 1918-1919. MA Thesis (University of Manitoba, March, 1988), pp. 98-99, 127-128.

APRIL 19, 1918

  • In April of 1918, the German troops arrived in the Molotschna colony and with them they brought a semblance of peace and security to the Ukraine. The Mennonites were sympathetic to the German occupation, since it offered them relief from the brutality of the Bolsheviks and the anarchistic robber bands. Some of the Mennonites even loaned funds to the German occupation government ...

APRIL 19, 1918

  • 19. April [NS] 1918 - German troops enter Halbstadt and are welcomed as deliverers- thanks to God (!?) ...

14. April [1918], Sunday - Soldiers and sailors requisitioned meat, bread, eggs, etc. at various places in Halbstadt and Muntau ...

- Berdjansk - battles between Whites and Reds - end on 18. April [1918] with victory of Whites- Charkow - occupied by Ukrainians and Germans on 8. April
- Alexandrowsk - fell to Whites on 15. Apirl [1918]
- Melitopol - fell to Whites on 16. April [1918]
- Ukraine, Kiev - 6.April: ]1918] negotiations between Germans and Ukrainians on export of food and grain products ...

APRIL 19, 1918

APRIL 19, 1918

  • Then, in the morning of 17 April, both the Reds and the anarchists had fled the scene in utter disarray ... Finally, on the nineteenth, the first Germans had appeared ... our [train] station has never - even during the first days of mobilization - seen a gathering of people as on that 19 April ... The entire cohort - some 700 to 800 men - was put up for night [in private homes] in Halbstadt, Neuhalbstadt, and Muntau ... No sooner had the German troops moved into the Molotschna colony than Peter Braun, on 24 April, 1918, wrote his brother Abraham in Germany ... The last German troops left on 27 November, 1918 ...

[http://books.google.com/books?id=CnA-xZ1vEswC&pg=
PA278&lpg=PA278&dq=%22german+troops%22+Ukraine+
1918&source=web&ots=WTdufIyLhM&sig=
9lEcXWy8X9SUr0LrmEUwtvbdSzo&hl=
en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=
result#PPA277,M1 - In Defense of Privilege: Russian Mennonites and the State Before and During World War I By Abraham Friesen Published by Kindred Productions, 2006 ISBN 189479107X, 9781894791076 520 pages]

APRIL 19, 1918

LINDEMEIER
 

HOAR

  •  On 19 April at 1:30 p.m. two officers, Lindemeier  and Hoar, entered Halbstadt in the Molotschna Mennonite settlement to announce that a company of soldiers would be arriving by train momentarily.2

Large crowds had gathered at the train station to greet the new arrivals, delayed for several hours, they learned, by a tumultuous welcome and an abundant meal for the German troops at the  Lichtenau station. When the train did appear in Halbstadt at 5:30 p.m., cheering onlookers waved an overjoyed welcome3.

Several hundred or more soldiers and their officers remained to be lodged in Halbstadt, as well as Neuhalbstadt and Muntau. Two hundred horses were brought to Halbstadt, presumably for the use of the new occupiers during their stay in the colony4,

3 The arrival of the German troops put an immediate end to the excavation of Chortitza over the Dnieper bridge already begun by the Russians forces with efforts to remove livestock and other goods from the villages there, The assembly of families to leave was also well underway ...

  • History and Mission in Europe: Continuing the Conversation, pp. 50-51 - books.google.ca/books?isbn=3937896988

APRIL 19, 1918

LINDEMEIER

HOAR

  • On 19 April at 1:30 p.m. two officers, Lindemeier and Hoer, entered Halbstadt in the Molotschna colony to announce that a company of German soldiers would be arriving by train momentarily2. Large crowds had gathered at the train station to greet the new arrivals, delayed for several hours, they learned, by a tumultuous welcome and a meal of abundance in the village of Lichtenau. When the train did arrive in Halbstadt at 5:30 p.m., cheering onlookers waved an overjoyed welcome. As one reporter put it, “The greeting at the arrival itself is hard to describe. One had to be present there”3. Several hundred soldiers and their officers remained to be lodged in Halbstadt, as well as Neuhalbstadt and Muntau. Two hundred horses were brought to Halbstadt, presumably for the use of the Germans during their stay in the colony4 ...

    • Notes

2 A first-hand account of the reception of the Germans among the Mennonites was given in “Erste Ankunft der deutschen Truppen in Halbstadt”, Volksfreund (Vfrd). 20. April 1918, 1. See also J.G.Dyck’s letter to B.B.Janz, dated 15 September 1956 in the B.B. Janz papers, Centre for Mennonite Brethren Studies Archives (CMBSA) File l, d. See also Gerhard P. Schroeder, Miracles of Grace and Judgment: A Family Strives for Survival in the Russian Revolution (Lodi, CA: by the author, 1974), 28 ff. and the Peter Dyck diary entry for 19. April 1918 in John P. Dyck ed., Troubles and Triumphs 1914-1924: Excerpts from the Diary of Peter J Dyck, Ladekapp, Molotschna Colony, Ukraine (Springstein, MB: by the editor, 1981), 46. All entries in this diary are New Style dates.

3 Kroeker, “Erste Ankunft,“ 1.

4 B.H. Unruh, „Tatsachen,“ Der Bote (DB), 15. September 1937, 2. See also a letter from Neuhalbstadt dated 21. April 1918, printed in Mennonitische Rundschau (Menn Rund), 9.Oktober 1918, 11-12. It mentions a group of 700-800 German soldiers appearing in the first contingent at Halbstadt ...

  • [L.Klippenstein, THE SELBSTSCHUTZ: A MENNONITE ARMY IN UKRAINE 1918-1919 -