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Originally Posted by August
100 years ago today my Great Grandfather, Johann August Ferd Karl was in the trenches on the southern flank of the Verdun salient. Vaux les Palameix (Chevaliers wood, Bouchot wood).
6th Company
8th Bavarian Infantry Regiment Grossherzog Friedrich II. Von Baden
8th Bavarian Infantry Brigade (8th BIR and 4th BIR)
33rd Reserve Division
5th German army (Generalmajor Wilhelm, Crown Prince of Germany) |
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Originally Posted by Oberon
And I'm not so sure about my other great-grandfather, he was either with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders or the Gordon Highlanders at this point, sadly I've not been able to get to his records, I can only presume that they were likely discarded or destroyed after his death in 1917.
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Was that common to have records of serving personal discarded or destroyed after one was confirmed killed in action?