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Originally Posted by nikimcbee
 Was your family able to save any memories of/from him? Letters home, personal items? |
There used to be a bunch of it. Apparently he was a quite prolific writer. Mom remembers her grandmother rereading his letters to her as a child. What has become of it all I don't know. Myself all I have is that picture and an Iron Cross medal but in recent years there has been some doubt in the family as to whether it was his or one of his brothers.
One of my cousins did send me his death certificate a few years ago. A gaudy thing that looks more like a diploma than a record of death but from that and some enlistment records I found through Ancestry.com I was able to decipher his unit, the 8th Royal Bavarian Infantry Regiment. Apparently he saw a lot of action over the four years and was one of the original Storm Troopers participating in the battle of Riga and made the assault across the Dniper river in 1917.
His regiment was part of the 14th Bavarian Division.
