I love Soldbuchs, and researching them, but the German Sütterlin script kicks my a$$. The good thing about Soldbuchs is most of the info fits within a certain box, and you know what to expect in certain sections. But now and then I get stuck - luckily I have Amberg whos already helped me with this current book I am working on, but rather than bug him to death (I already have) I thought it might be fun to show what kind of things you can run into.
3 pics below of Hauptwachtmeister August Engling's soldbuch, from Panzer-Jäger Abt. 12 - the photo shows a ribbon bar with I think WW1 Iron Cross and 2 Long Service medals. But his shoulder boards are odd to me, with the white center stripe. And the device? I'm assuming its a "P" since hes a Panzer-Jäger, but wanted to see if other document people would look at it.
The other 2 pics - 1 shows his address crossed out with new information below. I can't make heads or tails, but can tell you his old address was in Königsburg, so the Russians were there by March 1945....
The last photo shows a wound code entry in his Soldbuch, September 1944. To me it looks like -36 which is not what you want to have in your Soldbuch (suspected of faking illness). Is it possibly 31? The issue is he wasn't in any action at the time, he was with Kraftfahr Park Kompanie z.b.v. 573.
Thanks for any insights, I want to get that right before I say he was faking illness.
3 pics below of Hauptwachtmeister August Engling's soldbuch, from Panzer-Jäger Abt. 12 - the photo shows a ribbon bar with I think WW1 Iron Cross and 2 Long Service medals. But his shoulder boards are odd to me, with the white center stripe. And the device? I'm assuming its a "P" since hes a Panzer-Jäger, but wanted to see if other document people would look at it.
The other 2 pics - 1 shows his address crossed out with new information below. I can't make heads or tails, but can tell you his old address was in Königsburg, so the Russians were there by March 1945....
The last photo shows a wound code entry in his Soldbuch, September 1944. To me it looks like -36 which is not what you want to have in your Soldbuch (suspected of faking illness). Is it possibly 31? The issue is he wasn't in any action at the time, he was with Kraftfahr Park Kompanie z.b.v. 573.
Thanks for any insights, I want to get that right before I say he was faking illness.