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
148th (5th West Prussian) Infantry - see 09.06.1936 (meeting invitation from the Association of Officers of the former...) - see 09.06.1936 (World War One)
3./ W. K. Unterf. Lehrgang XI. (12.09.1942 - Archive only)
Beobachtungs Batterie 100 (document from Bb. 7 - Jüterbog). Ref: 17.11.1942
F.A.K. - Front Aufklärungs Kommando (Front reconnaissance headquarters) - see 34/63
Feldrekr.-Inf.-Rgt.265 I.Batl. 2.Komp - see 26.06.1940 - 23/95
Heimkehr des Inf. Rgt. 40 (Augsburg) - see 28.09.1940
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 - see 25/38 (orphan)
With FPN - Pre-September 1939
With FPN - September 1939 - 1945
00246 (01.1942 - 32/65)
00757 (12.1940 - 32/3)
01167 (12.1940 - 30/21)
01422 (02.1940 - 30/40)
01485 (05.1942 - 32/71)
01489 (06.1943 - 23/27 - Archive only)
02231 (07.10.1939 - Archive only)
02445 (07.1942 - 32/66)
02871 (05.1943 - 33/74)
04668 (08.07.1943 - Archive only but might be worth its own page)
05374 (05.1943 - 33/74)
06029 (08.09.1939)
09569 (07.1940 - 23/98 - Archive only)
09643 (02.1942 - 32/58)
11111Â (12.1939 - 30/10)
11152 (09.1939 - 29/81)
11333 (06.1940 - 23/87 - Archive only)
12410 (03.1942 - 32/53)
13837 (12.1940 - 30/25)
14132 (04.1941 - 25/82 - Archive only)
15457 (05.1940 - 23/82 - Archive only)
15615 (?, RAD 5/182 - 34/34)
17860 (09.1939 - 29/83)
18379 (01.1944 - Archive only - where is this?)
18791 (11.1940 - 30/78)
19705 (12.1940 - 30/90)
19922 (10.1940 - 30/69)
20358 (05.1943 - 25/37 - Archive only)
21462 (12.1940 - 32/2)
21631 (06.1941, 01.1941 - 32/27) Brussels
21720 (01.1942 - 32/63)
23758 (03.1942 - 32/53 - AOK 4 Field Inspection Office?)
23909 (02.1942 - 32/56)
24401 (07.1941 - message written on a Russian postcard)
26455 (08.1940 - 30/47)
27214 (12.02.1943)
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)
29514 (01.1942 - 32/62 - Organisation Todt? Forced labour?)
29969 (09.1944 - 29/86)
30617 (03.1943 - Archive only - where?)
30995 (02.44 - 26/13 - Archive only - printed instructions on how to fold the letter-sheet)
31080 (12.1940 - 30/100)
31974 (12.1939 - 30/6)
32221 (02.1940 - 30/40)
32281 (12.1939 - 30/11)
33467 (12.1940 - 32/6)
35584 (?, Konigsberg - 34/33)
36301 (02.1940 - 30/40)
36472 (07.1941) and 12.1940 - 30/91
37445 (11.1943? - 18/34)
37596 (05.1942 -32/74)
38093 (12.1940 - 32/5)
39154 (02/1940 - 30/40)
39371 (08.1943 - 19/13). The 603rd Economic Motor Transport Regiment z.b.V. was formed on 30 October 1941 by Military District VII from the Lauterbach Special Staff, which had been established on 23 September 1941. The regiment was organised into four battalions comprising a total of 12 companies. On 11 November 1941, the regiment was renamed the Economic Motor Transport Brigade z.b.V. 1 and reorganised. The brigade staff commanded Economic Motor Transport Regiments 603–606 on the Eastern Front. The brigade was subordinate to the Economic Road Transport Service East in Warsaw. On 1 May 1943, it was renamed the Economic Road Transport Brigade z.b.V. 1. On 30 April 1944, the brigade staff was disbanded.
39481 (04.1940 - 23/71)
39827 (05.02.1940 - 30/37)
43982 (04.1944 - Archive only - Where?)
44744 (01.1942) Newspaper wrapper
46155 (03.1942 - 32/82)
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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