Wehrmacht Formations
Heer (inc. SS)
Parcel label (detached) sent from Chemnitz to a soldier at FPN 17468 (Heavy Artillery Division 816: the feldpost number appears to date the label in early/mid 1942. In the winter of 41/42 the detachment was deployed around Rzhev - possibly Khoroshevo, Kowalevo, Zaytsevo). Featuring a permission stamp for feldpost packages (Mi.1 A - perforated). Ref: 16/6
Wehrmacht - Heer formations
(as found on covers and postcards etc., within the Brief History collection)
Without FPN
3./ W. K. Unterf. Lehrgang XI. (12.09.1942 - Archive only)
Beobachtungs Batterie 100 (document from Bb. 7 - Jüterbog). Ref: 17.11.1942
Feldrekr.-Inf.-Rgt.265 I.Batl. 2.Komp (See 26.06.1940 - 23/95)
Infantry Replacement Battalion 488 (10.1942) Barlog cartoon postcard
Landesschützen-Bataillon 675 (11.1941) Munster Lager
Landesschützen-Bataillon 704 (11.1942) Barlog cartoon postcard
Marschkompanie N2, Liegnitz (12.1942) Cover to Scharnhorst Kaserne
Panzertruppenschule I (Wünsdorf). Cover. Ref: 23.07.1941
Replacement Battalion 480 Infantry/ Training Battalion 480 (Schlan/Slany, B&M). Packet card. Ref: 13.05.1942 - Shown at Mi.65-72 B&M definitives
Stammkp. M.G. Ers. Btl.4 (Horb a.N.) Typed letter
Stellv. Gen. Kdo. X.A.K. (Representative of X. Army Korps, Wehrkreiskommando X). From Munster Lager. Ref: 21.08.1943 - 22/69
Telegraphenbauamt Ukraine/ Baubezirk IX (25.07.1943) Parcel label
Weihnachtskarte Nr.2 einer westfälischen Division - 25/38 (orphan)
With FPN - Pre-September 1939
With FPN - September 1939 - 1945
01489 (06.1943 - 23/27 - Archive only)
02231 (07.10.1939 - Archive only)
04668 (08.07.1943 - Archive only but might be worth its own page)
09569 (07.1940 - 23/98 - Archive only)
11333 (06.1940 - 23/87 - Archive only)
14132 (04.1941 - 25/82 - Archive only)
15457 (05.1940 - 23/82 - Archive only)
18379 (01.1944 - Archive only - where is this?)
20358 (05.1943 - 25/37 - Archive only)
24401 (07.1941 - message written on a Russian postcard)
27902 (06.1944 - 1/99 - Archive only)
28303 (16/82 - typed letter - no date. Waiting to be added)
29301 (06.1940 - 23/89 - Archive only)
30617 (03.1943 - Archive only)
30995 (02.44 - 26/13 - Archive only - printed instructions on how to fold the letter-sheet)
37445 (11.1943? - 18/34)
39481 (04.1940 - 23/71)
43982 (04.1944 - Archive only - Where?)
44744 (01.1942) Newspaper wrapper
46797 (24.07.1943 - further research required into correspondence address)
59011 (late 1943 - 25/58) Label with instructions to reverse (Wehrpass?)
Waffen-SS with FPN
Waffen-SS without FPN
1.SS Panzer Corps at SS-Lager Oranienburg - see 26.07.1943. Possibly on the first day of being raised as a Corps.
Sanitätswesen der Waffen-SS, SS-Lazarette Prag (?) - Medical Service, no date, archive only 16/31
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