WWII German Wehrmacht Soldbuch – Obergefreiter Merkel – Grenadier Regiment 693 (339. Infanterie-Division) – Infantry Assault Badge – Wounded in Russia – Lost Family due to Allied Bombing of Kassel 1944 (SOLD)

Description

Issued on the the 12th of September 1940 in Kassel with Landesschützen Ersatz Batl 9 to Albert Merkel from the Kassel area. He was born in 1909 into a protestant family. His next of kin was his father living on Hermann-Göring Street.

Unit he spent time with:

1. Infanterie Regiment 654 –
2. Landeschützen Batl 622 – 1.1941 – Guarding POWs.
3. Infanterie Regiment 691 – 5.1941
4. Grenadier Regiment 691/693 – 1943/44 – 339. Infanterie-Division – Heeresgruppe Mitte – Russian Front –
5. Grenadier Regiment 135 – Destroyed

Page 14 – Notes that on the 26.1.1945 – Merkel was found after his unit was destroyed.

Führergeschenk   – 23.1.1944, Issued an Iron Ration – 22.7.44

Issued a Rifle in 1941, with Bayonet.

Wounded won the 8.2.1945 – Hospital – 26.5.1944 , Bad Höhenfels moved with hospital train to Bad Mergntheim.

Medals:

1. Eastern Front Medal – 23.8.1943 – IR693
2. Infantry Assault Badge in Silver – 24.10.1943 – IR693 – Middle Sector Russian Front
3. Black Wounds Badge – 26.5.1944 – Wounded due to enemy action

Admitted leave September 1944 for around two weeks, because his home house was completely destroyed by Allied Bombing Raid, killing his family members.

Last Comments:

A nice Soldbuch, clean cover and with combat entries. Nice Uniformed picture. Sad strory with his family getting killed so close to the end of the war.