German unit question

[Guest]

Hello - The 1st Bn Devonshire's War Diary mentions a captured German ..Can anyone help decipher the unit name? I have underlined it but am fairly sure i have transcribed incorrectly....

"...A German soldier named Karl Friedrick Wilhelm Timm 14th Gruthian? INF Dranberg was captured and made a prisoner of war..."

Thanks in advance. MG

[SiegeGunner]

Doesn't look right, Martin. Could you post a photo/scan of the relevant bit of text.

[Guest]

Doesn't look right, Martin. Could you post a photo/scan of the relevant bit of text.

... Prussian?

[Tyneside Chinaman]

Doesn't seem right to me

Number 14 Infanterie-Regt. Graf Schwerin (3.Pommersches) had its home depot in Bromberg.

Tried Googling Dranberg and it doesn't exist. Looking closer I also think it is Prussian.

regards

John

[Ron Clifton]

Hello Martin

Terrible handwriting!

14th Prussian Infantry Regiment, whose home base was at Bromberg. Also known as the 3rd Pomeranian Regiment, part of 4th Infantry Division in II Army Corps.

Ron

Edit: the Chinaman beat me to it!

[Guest]

Thanks gents. This part of the diary has dozens of spelling errors. The French place names were rather challenging. It has been a bit if a nightmare to transcribe. I am currently editing them and there are patches of 'darkness' Thank you for shedding some light on this. MG

[trajan]

Here you go Martin!

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/IR_14

Julian

[Guest]

Here you go Martin!

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/IR_14

Julian

Thak you. MG

[Karsten]

Martin, of which year and battle we are talking of?

Karsten

[Guest]

Martin, of which year and battle we are talking of?

Karsten

1914. During the British advance on 13th Sep. Battalion had marched from Monthier to Oulchy-la-Ville. The diary is not specific about the exact location wher the POW was captured.

[Karsten]

1914. During the British advance on 13th Sep. Battalion had marched from Monthier to Oulchy-la-Ville. The diary is not specific about the exact location wher the POW was captured.

Martin, thanks. I haven't found (or identified - to be more precisely) him in the Verlustlisten though.

Karsten

[Karsten]

I think the German place should read "Dramburg", not "Bromberg". Confer the "D" of "Dramburg" with the "B" of "Batt." (first word of first line). The first letter of the German place is a "D" rather than a "B". (But I have to confess that the 6th letter seems to be more an "e" than an "u". But there seems to be references to "Dramburg" as "Dramberg".) So I guess it is Dramburg - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drawsko_Pomorskie

It is about 180 km from Dramburg to Bromberg (Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 14).

There are 25 entries in the Verlustlisten which match "Timm" and "Dramburg" but none of them fits to a Karl Friedrich Wilhelm TIMM, MIA ("vermißt"/"vermisst") in mid-September 1914.

Hm ... hm ...

Karsten