stevenbecker Posted 19 November , 2020 Share Posted 19 November , 2020 Mates, On checking some site I notice the names listed as buried on the Baghdad Railway? There are no dates and as the Railway went from 1903 to around 1940 where these graves from Germans during all that peroid? They are all listed on one monument shown as listed of buried at the German cemetery of Çamalan and Tarsus and Mersin Province I could not find there names on the Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg, so possibly all civilian workers? Ager Gerhard Buisman Richard Chmel Markus Hammerle Helmut Hitsch Gunter Kogler Eduard Kunzig Dieter Mahne Wolfgang Schidinger Suren Sichart Michael Steinberger Marius Weber Johnann Früwis Norbert Gruber Alexander Hartmann Harald Kasper Hannes Liender Werner Nendorfer Oskar Pichler Burkhard Rainer Konrad Sacher Alfred Schandi Roland Schmid Markus Valent Singer Walt Hans-Jorg Beer Fritz Dull Peter Meras Bernd Siegl Hans Essl Gerd Horvath Karl Kaser Anton Stolle Bernt Suitner Horst Kneisl Franz Hofler Ernst Binder Marco Bayer Walter Sekyra Franz Kress Armin Banak Thomas Any ideas? S.B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie2 Posted 19 November , 2020 Share Posted 19 November , 2020 (edited) It looks like they were all deaths between 1904 & 1914. https://grabsteine.genealogy.net/tomb.php?cem=3718&tomb=3 https://grabsteine.genealogy.net/tomb.php?cem=3718&tomb=2 https://grabsteine.genealogy.net/tomb.php?cem=3718&tomb=1&b=&lang=de Charlie Edited 19 November , 2020 by charlie2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holger Kotthaus Posted 19 November , 2020 Share Posted 19 November , 2020 Here you find also names with further infos, devided by countires Denkmäler in der Fremde / Monuments (Cemeteries) abroad http://www.denkmalprojekt.org/covers_intl/andere_laender.htm Cheers Holger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaureenE Posted 19 November , 2020 Share Posted 19 November , 2020 In the group of photos within the link https://www.flickr.com/photos/50074978@N06/sets/72157626048039691/ there is a monument to 3 German staff of the Baghdad Railway who died in 1917, who seemed to be in the German Army, buried at Belemedik. A photograph of Belemedik https://www.flickr.com/photos/39631091@N03/6932593819/in/album-72157622412214804/ contains descriptive text which says "In the eight years of construction in the area 41 German citizens people lost their lives (accidents, slides and diseases)" There were also Allied prisoners of war who mainly died of Malaria and Typhus. In addition, it appears only working prisoners were provided with food. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie962 Posted 19 November , 2020 Share Posted 19 November , 2020 1 hour ago, Maureene said: There were also Allied prisoners of war who mainly died of Malaria and Typhus. In addition, it appears only working prisoners were provided with food. But they would surely all have been recovered by the CWGC postwar and reburied at Baghdad ? (those for whom a burial location was identified) charlie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaureenE Posted 19 November , 2020 Share Posted 19 November , 2020 7 hours ago, charlie962 said: But they would surely all have been recovered by the CWGC postwar and reburied at Baghdad ? (those for whom a burial location was identified) charlie Yes, I was talking about Allied prisoners of war who had died, not about their remaining graves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 19 November , 2020 Share Posted 19 November , 2020 (edited) Mates, Thank you now makes more sence. Holger Interesting site I have not been able to get into before. I still can't find a list of graves of Germans buried in Iraq (mesopotania), Only a few names in the North Gate Cemetery? Charlie, Yes mate thats the lists on a Monument I saw, thank you as I now known the spelling of all the names. Maureene Thank you the names are interesting. yes I have many years ago looked at my Camel Corps and Light Horse soldiers who ended up there, and got buried in Baghdad I had them as, so nice to find out more on them possibly all were in the Eisenbahnbau ; Grosse or Großo Arno Unteroffizier unknown (not identified) 1916-17 (born 1889 died 2-7-17) grave in German war cemetery at Tarabya Istanbul cause not stated? nicht auf großen Gedenktafeln (not identified)? Nahler Franz Pnr unknown (not identified)? 1917- (born 1878 died 28-5-17) grave in German war cemetery at Tarabya Istanbul cause not stated? nicht auf großen Gedenktafeln (not identified)? Hartmaier Heinrich Unteroffizier unknown (unit not stated) 1917- (1892 at Tübingen possibly DoW 13-8-17) leicht verwundet (minor wound) WIA 1917? grave in German war cemetery at Tarabya Istanbul nicht auf großen Gedenktafeln possibly reported by von Sanders lost five men killed in one of the actions against these deserters near his HQ vicinity of Panderma Thats why a list of German graves in Iraq would be interesting to confirm the many Germans who died there fighting with the Turks. Cheers S.B Edited 20 November , 2020 by stevebecker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holger Kotthaus Posted 20 November , 2020 Share Posted 20 November , 2020 7 hours ago, stevebecker said: I still can't find a list of graves of Germans buried in Iraq (mesopotania), Only a few names in the North Gate Cemetery? In the German Federal Archive in Berlin Lichterfelde, exists a File R1001/ 6711 from 1934 With German graves in foreign countries (outside Europe). I have ordered this and other files. Should be also include Irak / Mesopotamia. I come back to you if I receive these. Cheers Holger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 20 November , 2020 Share Posted 20 November , 2020 Danke Mate, Can't wait Cheers S.B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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