Description
Nice WW1 Set to a Machine Gunner
Emil Krengel born in Mettmann in 1889
Won the Iron Cross Second class in Flanders
Served with:
2nd Machine Gun Company, Inf Regiment 141 (35th Div)
The 35th Division (35. Division) was a unit of the Prussian/German Army.[1] It was formed on April 1, 1890, and was headquartered initially in Graudenz (now Grudziądz, Poland) and from 1912 in Thorn (now Toruń, Poland).[2] The division was subordinated in peacetime to the XVII Army Corps (XVII. Armeekorps).[3] The division was disbanded in 1919 during the demobilization of the German Army after World War I. The division was recruited primarily in the southern part of West Prussia, and included a relatively high percentage of Poles.
Combat chronicle
The 35th Infantry Division began World War I on the Eastern Front. It fought in the battles of Gumbinnen and Tannenberg, and in the First Battle of the Masurian Lakes. In 1915, it participated in the Gorlice-Tarnów Offensive. In October 1915, it was transferred to the Western Front. In 1916, it fought in the Battle of the Somme. In 1917, it participated in the Battle of Arras and the Battle of Passchendaele. In 1918, the division fought against various Allied offensives and counteroffensives, including the Hundred Days Offensive. Allied intelligence rated the division as a mediocre division and considered it second class by 1918, mainly due to the losses it had suffered in the war’s earlier battles.
Battle Calendar:
1915
01/31/1915 – 02/02/1915: Battle of Humin (Battle of Humin and Wola-Szydlowiecka)
03/05/1915 – 03/16/1915: Battle of Stolniki
07/13/1915 – 07/17/1915: breakthrough battle near Przasnysz
07/13/1915 – 07/14/1915: breakthrough at Przasnysz
07/15/1915 – 07/16/1915: Breakthrough of the Bogate Position
July 18, 1915 – July 22, 1915: Pursuit battles to the lower Narew
07/23/1915 – 08/03/1915: Battle of the Narew
07/23/1915 – 07/24/1915: Narew crossing between Pultusk and Roshan
08/04/1915 – 08/07/1915: Battle of Orz-Bach (Goworowo) (Battle of Wonsewo)
08/08/1915 – 08/10/1915: Battle of Ostrow
08/11/1915 – 08/12/1915: Battle of Chizhev-Zambrov
08/13/1915 – 08/18/1915: Pursuit battles on the upper Narew and Nurzec (persecution to the Biala)
08/19/1915 – 08/25/1915: Battle of Bielsk
08/26/1915 – 09/05/1915: Pursuit battles at the Swisloc and at the Naumka-Werecia
09/06/1915 – 09/07/1915: Battle of Volkowyszk
09/08/1915 – 09/12/1915: Battle of the Zelwianka and the Njemen
09/12/1915 – 09/17/1915: Battle of the Szczara and Jeinia
09/17/1915 – 09/26/1915: Pursuit fights in the Lithuanian swamps
September 27, 1915 – October 17, 1915: Departure and transport to the west
western front
October 19, 1915 – June 23, 1916: Position battles between the Somme and the Oise
1916
06/24/1916 – 11/26/1916: Battle of the Somme
November 27, 1916 – March 15, 1917: Position battles on the Somme
1917
March 16, 1917 – April 10, 1917: Fighting in front of the Siegfried Front
04/02/1917 – 05/20/1917: Spring battle near Arras 1917
May 21, 1917 – May 28, 1917: Trench battles in Flanders and Artois
05/27/1917 – 06/13/1917: Battle of Flanders (Part 1: Battle for the Wyschaete bend and preparatory battles for the summer battle of 1917 in Flanders)
June 7, 1917: Battle of Wyschaete and Messines
06/15/1917 – 06/20/1917: Fighting in front of the Siegfried Front
06/24/1917 – 10/08/1917: Fighting in the Siegfried Line
10/20/1917 – 12/03/1917: Autumn Battle 1917 in Flanders
12/04/1917 – 03/30/1918: trench warfare in Flanders in the winter of 1917/18
1918
03/31/1918 – 05/06/1918: Trench battles in Flanders and Artois
April 9, 1918 – April 18, 1918: Battle of Armentières
07.05.1918 – 23.08.1918: trench warfare in Flanders
08/24/1918 – 09/02/1918: Battle of Monchy-Bapaume
09/03/1918 – 09/26/1918: Fighting in front of the Siegfried Front 1918
09/27/1918 – 10/08/1918: defensive battle between Cambrai and St. Quentin
10/09/1918 – 11/04/1918: Fighting before and in the Hermann Position
10/24/1918 – 11/04/1918: Battle of Valenciennes
11/05/1918 – 11/11/1918: Retreat fighting in front of the Antwerp-Maas position
from November 12, 1918: evacuation of the occupied territory and march home
