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Message:: [QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 5513147, member: 110350"]A great photo! Here are a few uniformed photos of my own maternal grandfather, who fought on the other side in World War I, and was wounded in the Battle of Verdun at the end of February 1916, at or around Fort Douaumont. At Cambrai, occupied Northern France, Rosh Hashanah 1915, age 20 [ATTACH=full]1240070[/ATTACH] In the military hospital, March 1916, age 21, after being wounded at Verdun. Standing, far right: [ATTACH=full]1240084[/ATTACH] Sitting up in bed to the left of center, with a nurse holding his left wrist: [ATTACH=full]1240072[/ATTACH] As an unteroffizier ( = corporal), standing in center of back row with his Korporalschaft ( = 2 gruppen), Champagne, France, April 24, 1917, age 22, after 3rd battle of Champagne. Some of those soldiers look old enough to be his father. He kept that mustache until sometime after my grandparents arrived in the USA from Berlin, via Lisbon, in June 1941. [ATTACH=full]1240076[/ATTACH] Unfortunately, I don't know the exact circumstances of his promotion to "unteroffizier," or exactly where he was stationed after April 1917, except that at some point he served in Serbia and Bulgaria and today's Ukraine. The information I have is from the dates on the postcards on which the photos appear, from some other family documents, from research on his regiment, and from what I remember him telling me and/or my mother telling me about him. His actual service records, along with most service records for the Prussian army in World War I, was destroyed in the Allied bombing of Potsdam in early 1945.  Only the separate service records for the Bavarian Army survive for the Germans in World War I.[/QUOTE]

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