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Wehrmacht Formations
Heer (inc. SS)

Heer formations

Heer formations

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


111569 (03.1939)


With FPN - September 1939 - 1945


00246 (01.1942 - 32/65)

00349 (04.1940)

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)


01747 (02.1944)

01751 (04.1941)

01776 (06.1943)


02231 (07.10.1939 - Archive only)

02445 (07.1942 - 32/66)


03894 (06.1940 - 23/92)


04518 (01.1941)

04583 (12.1939)


04668 (08.07.1943 - Archive only but might be worth its own page)


05522 (05.1940)


09149 (12.1944)

09569 (07.1940 - 23/98 - Archive only)

09643 (02.1942 - 32/58)

09721 (08.1940 - 30/49)


10612 (06.1940 - 23/91)


11111 (12.1939 - 30/10)

11152 (09.1939 - 29/81)

11333 (06.1940 - 23/87 - Archive only)


12410 (03.1942 - 32/53)


13003 (02.1945)

13837 (12.1940 - 30/25)


14132 (04.1941 - 25/82 - Archive only)


15457 (05.1940 - 23/82 - Archive only)


16293 (07.1941)


17468 (1942?)

17860 (09.1939 - 29/83)


18379 (01.1944 - Archive only - where is this?)


18768 (02.1940)

18791 (11.1940 - 30/78)


19705 (12.1940 - 30/90)

19922 (10.1940 - 30/69)


20148 (07.1943)

20358 (05.1943 - 25/37 - Archive only)


21462 (12.1940 - 32/2)


21611 (07.1941)

21631 (06.1941, 01.1941 - 32/27) Brussels

21687 (01.1941)


21720 (01.1942 - 32/63)


22929 (12.1944)


23098 (09.1942)


23733 (07.1940 - 23/99)

23758 (03.1942 - 32/53 - AOK 4 Field Inspection Office?)


23909 (02.1942 - 32/56)


24044 (06.1943)

24401 (07.1941 - message written on a Russian postcard)


26243 (06.42)

26455 (08.1940 - 30/47)


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)


30127 (10.1939)


30248 (07.1940 - 23/99)


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)


33193 (10.1939)

33467 (12.1940 - 32/6)


34335 (06.1940 - 23/93)

34345 (10.1941)


36301 (02.1940 - 30/40)

36365 (05.1940)


36472 (07.1941) and 12.1940 - 30/91


37445 (11.1943? - 18/34)

37596 (05.1942 -32/74)


38093 (12.1940 - 32/5)

38403 (05.1941 - 25/89)


39154 (02/1940 - 30/40)

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)

46198 (06.1943)


46797 (24.07.1943 - further research required into correspondence address)


48820 (02.1944)


59011 (late 1943 - 25/58) Label with instructions to reverse (Wehrpass?)


64075 (10.1944)



Waffen-SS with FPN


38623 (11.1940)


47456 (07.1943)



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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