Edwina Rees Posted 27 April , 2022 Share Posted 27 April , 2022 I have a copy of a WW1 German passbook in Old Prussian in the name of Walter Blumental. Is there anybody out there who can translate it for me, please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie2 Posted 27 April , 2022 Share Posted 27 April , 2022 Welcome to the forum If you post some clear scans of the document I‘m sure someone will be along to help. Charlie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwina Rees Posted 27 April , 2022 Author Share Posted 27 April , 2022 33 minutes ago, charlie2 said: Welcome to the forum If you post some clear scans of the document I‘m sure someone will be along to help. Charlie Enclosed are the first few pages 4 hours ago, Edwina Rees said: I have a copy of a WW1 German passbook in Old Prussian in the name of Walter Blumental. Is there anybody out there who can translate it for me, please? Hi Charlie I have attached the first few pages of the passbook. There are a further six pages to add but the current file size allowed has not allowed me to attach them on this reply. Any information about where he served and when would be useful. Walter Blumenthal was a signaller with the Prussian army in WW1 and grandfather to a lady I have been working with on her family WW1 history. She also had a British grandfather who served in the 19th Royal Liverpool Regiment in the same war. We posed the question, 'could they have been in direct combat'? Help in translating them would be greatly appreciated. Edwina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwina Rees Posted 27 April , 2022 Author Share Posted 27 April , 2022 Here are the last six pages Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWK Posted 27 April , 2022 Share Posted 27 April , 2022 (edited) The last scan: 1. Kompagnie Ersatz-Batl. Landwehr-Inf. Regt. 18 20 (or 21?)/7.17 Am 8.6.17 zu nebensteheden Kompagnie Am 20.7.17 zur Nachrichten Ersatz abteilung 20 Pr. Holland [Preussisch Holland] Führung: Gut Strafen: keine On 8 June 1917 to Ersatz-Battalion Landwehr Infanterie Regiment 18 On 20 July 1917 to Nachrichten Ersatz Abteilung 20 [Signal corps], Prussian Holland (in East Prussia) Behaviour: good Punishments: none Edited 27 April , 2022 by JWK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie2 Posted 28 April , 2022 Share Posted 28 April , 2022 A shortsummary of the pass Walter Blumenthal, born 5.11.1885 Herdecke in the administrative district of Hagen in Westfalen in the state of Prussia. A salesman/Buyer, single and of protestant confession. Called up on 28.7.1915 and posted to the Recruit Depot A of the Jäger Bataillon 1. There after he remained with further training units. 6.Infanterie Ersatz Bataillon (XX 13) in Allenstein Garde Nachrichten Ersatz Abteilung Nachrichten Abteilung of the Ersatz Abteilung Pascha II. He was declared fit for active service on 6.12.1917 and posted to Funker Ersatz Kompanie, Nachrichten Ersatz Abteilung 1 (presumably another training unit). From 14.7.1918 till 26.10.1918 he served with Flieger Abteilung A240, an artillery cooperation squadron. He was slightly wounded on 26.10.1918 and admitted to the Main Dressing Station at Renneville in the Ardenne. After he recovered he was posted to Hamburg on 20.12.1918 where he remained till he was discharged on 6.2.1919. As far as I can tell his active service was only in a unit fighting the French. Charlie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreyC Posted 28 April , 2022 Share Posted 28 April , 2022 (edited) 24 minutes ago, charlie2 said: Nachrichten Abteilung of the Ersatz Abteilung Pascha II. This means he was planned to be among those as relief for the troops to fight in the Near East, against Lawrence of Arabia and in Palastine. But then he seems to have been redesignated to the Garde Nachrichten Ersatz Abt. which seems to have had organisational ties to the Nachr. Ers. Abt. Pascha II. GreyC Edited 28 April , 2022 by GreyC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwina Rees Posted 29 April , 2022 Author Share Posted 29 April , 2022 Thank you very much for this translation. I've been unable to make any headway until now in completing this article. It would seem unlikely that Walter would have been up against the 19th Royal Liverpool Battalion at any time in the Great War Edwina. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwina Rees Posted 16 July , 2022 Author Share Posted 16 July , 2022 Thank you again for the translation of the WW1 Prussian Pass Book. As a result I have been able to give a definitive answer to the lady I was researching for and the question posed as to whether or not her British and her Prussian grandfathers were ever in direct conflict. Sadly she has since passed. A copy of this article is available on the Moseley Society History website:- https://moseley-society.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/My-Two-German-grandfathers-in-WW1-rev.pdf Many thanks again Edwina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie2 Posted 16 July , 2022 Share Posted 16 July , 2022 Thanks for the update and the link. Charlie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreyC Posted 16 July , 2022 Share Posted 16 July , 2022 (edited) Thanks for the article, an interesting read.. Just a quick note: Hamburg was not a province, as stated in the article, but a state, like Prussia, Bavaria or Saxony to mentioned a few. GreyC Edited 16 July , 2022 by GreyC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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