Ltn d R Julius Schmidt - Verlustlisten Entry

[saxon lions]

I am new to the forum and I am hoping that some of the forums experts can tell me where I can locate the Verlustlisten entry for the Saxon Fighter Ace - Julius Schmidt.

He was severely wounded 24/09/17 and never flew operationally again. I have been using the lists on Ancestry.com but these end 29/09/17, whilst there is still a gap on Großpolnischen Digitalen Bibliothek lists from 03/02/17 to 29/11/17, thus unfortunately leaving a gap between 29/09/17 and 29/11/17. To date there have been over 250 entries for Julius Schmidts on the Verlustlisten Erster Weltkrieg – GenWiki search site, but only one of these is from the missing period (04/10/17) and cannot be for him as the listing is on the Saxon lists and although he was in the Saxon Army he was assigned to Jasta 3 a Prussian unit so his initial listing must appear in the Prussian lists. I have seen entries on the Saxon lists for Saxons assigned to Prussian units (Hans Hoyer, Ernst v. Althaus) but these appear months later after an initial Prussian entry, but without a place of birth and with a common name it is impossible at present to determin if any of the 1918 Saxon entries relate to him. It may be that the entry I seek may soon appear on the Verlustlisten Erster Weltkrieg – GenWiki search site as they have now managed to list over 60% of the 1917 casualties.

I believe that Schmidt's Verlustlisten entry probably appears between 08/10/17 and 12/11/17, I am aware that there is a probability that more than one Julius Schmidt will appear in this period but he will be listed on the Prussian lists as a Ltn. d. R(es), and will be listed as severely wounded or injured in an Accident. It is likely although not certain that is place of birth will in Saxony and that any previous listings (if there are any) will if appearing between 1914 and 1916 be in the lists for Saxon Infantry or Jager units as he was photographed on a number of occasions in a Saxon Infantry/Jager uniform and frequently transfer from the infantry to the Air Service followed a wounding.

Can anyone tell me if the Verlustlisten lists I seek exist and where I can access them.

[Ken S.]

I occassionaly contribute to the database so i just logged in to see what I would be assigned -- a partially completed page from Sept. 10, 1917. This would be the period that most volunteers are likely working on at the moment. Some will skip forward and do other parts, which is usually what I do. Unfortunately, there are relatively few active volunteers, so it will be a number of months before 1917 is complete.

[saxon lions]

Thank you for your reply hopefully from what you say the information I seek should be available within a few months

[saxon lions]

Thanks to the hard work of the volunteers at the Verlustlisten project it appears his entry has appeared on the list for 10/10/17 but I'll wait to see if there is another similar entry later in Oct 1917.