Researcing my great gradfather

[Karsten Lund]

Good evening gentlemen

 

I am researching my great grandfather who served in the German Army during WW1. He was in Infanterie Regiment 362 in the 4th Ersatz Division and I´m trying to locate his footsteps. I know he was at Ypres - Hill 60 and Hooge, and at Le Sars on the Somme but I´m curious to know if there is a regimental history somewhere, trench maps to see where the different regiment were? Any help is highly appreciated.

 

Best regards

Karsten Lund

[keithfazzani]

Welcome to the forum, I am sure someone can help. It may help if you were to put something about your grandfather, regimental details for example in your heading. Then people with the appropriate expertise are more likely to spot it.

[FROGSMILE]

Perhaps something that @GreyC and @The Prussian and @JWK might be able to assist with.

[The Prussian]

Hi!

The IR362 was formed July 9, 1915 through IX.Army Corps

Staff by Landwehr-Inf.Rgt.85

I.Btl. by Brigade-Ersatz-Bataillon 33

II.Btl. by Brig.Ers.Btl. 34

III.Btl. by Brig.Ers.Btl. 35

IV.Btl. by Brig.Ers.Btl. 81

The regiment was in 4th Ersatz-Division (13th Ersatz-Brigade) from July 15, 1915 - Nov. 1918

For a short time (March 26, 1916 - May 28, 1916) in 26th Inf.Div. (101. Res.Inf.Brig.)

Demobilization mid December 1918 in Flensburg, dissolved January 11, 1919 by Fusilier-Regiment 86

 

4th Ers.Div.

1915: Ypres

1916: Somme, Yser

1917: Siegfriedfront, Arras, Flandres and Artois

1918: Flandres and Artois, Armentieres, Longeau-Tal-Chevallers-Wood, Oise-Aisne-Marne, Aisne-Marne, Soisons-Reims, Reims, Ypres-La Bassée, Monchy-Bapaume, Dury-Villiers-les-Cagnicourt, Siegfriedfront, Armentieres-Lens, Deule channel and Schelde, Hermannstellung Schelde, Valenciennes, Anvers-Maas

 

26th Inf.Div.

1916: Yser

 

 

Edited 22 November , 2020 by The Prussian

[JWK]

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/4._Ersatz-Division_(Deutsches_Kaiserreich)

shows where they were at what time.

 

I can find a tiny part of a war-diary, 3 weeks from 1 october to 21 october 1916:

https://tsamo.germandocsinrussia.org/de/nodes/113-akte-nr-101-ktb-abschrift-der-4-ersatz-division#page/16/mode/grid/zoom/1

[AOK4]

Hello,

 

A name and birth place and date would definitely help as well.

 

Kind regards,

Jan

[charlie2]

Presumably Uffz. Carl Jürgen Matthiesen who appears in the Verlustlisten in 1917.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/4334036

 

Charlie

[GreyC]

As I have been called upon, yet much has already been said, all that remains for me to add is to let you know that there is no regimental history. Here is a photo from my collection showing a few soldiers from 1st battailon 362nd Regiment taken shortly before 14th June 1916. So it´s a rare photo showing them during the short time as part of 26th Lw Div.

"For a short time (March 26, 1916 - May 28, 1916) in 26th Inf.Div. (101. Res.Inf.Brig.)"

GreyC

Edited 22 November , 2020 by GreyC

[Karsten Lund]

Hi gents

 

Thank you so much for all your help and the report from October 1916 was exactly what I was looking for. All the other details you have come with I have already found out but all the help is really appreciated. Thank you all again.

 

Cheers from Denmark

Karsten

[Karsten Lund]

8 minutes ago, charlie2 said:

Presumably Uffz. Carl Jürgen Matthiesen who appears in the Verlustlisten in 1917.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/4334036

 

Charlie

Yes that is him. He was wounded around Butte de Warlencourt February 1st 1917. They took his leg off and got a wooden leg after he was discharged

[Karsten Lund]

6 minutes ago, GreyC said:

As I have been called upon, yet much has already been said, all that remains for me to add is to let you know that there is no regimental history. Here is a photo from my collection showing a few soldiers from 1st battailon 362nd Regiment taken shortly before 14th June 1916. So it´s a rare photo showing them during the short time as part of 26th Lw Div.

"For a short time (March 26, 1916 - May 28, 1916) in 26th Inf.Div. (101. Res.Inf.Brig.)"

GreyC

 

Wau that is an amazing photo, thank you. He was in 2nd BTN but maybe he knew these chaps

[GreyC]

3 hours ago, Karsten Lund said:

Yes that is him. He was wounded around Butte de Warlencourt February 1st 1917. They took his leg off and got a wooden leg after he was discharged

 Hi,

if he has the "right" date of birth, you might be able to find him with some biographical data in the holdings of the German National Archive, where the surviving documents of the Krankenbuchlager are stored.

https://www.bundesarchiv.de/DE/Content/Artikel/Ueber-uns/Aus-unserer-Arbeit/Textsammlung-Unterlagen-Abt-PA/unterlagen-abt-pa.html?chapterId=63002

 

Glad you like the photo.

GreyC

 

Edited 22 November , 2020 by GreyC

[AOK4]

There is a divisional history for the 4th Ersatz Division, "Von Nieuport bis Podfilipie".