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Vizefeldwebel Heinrich Kohlmeier
2. Sturm-Komp. – Königlich Preuß. Sturm-Bataillon
Nr. 5 (Rohr)
Kohlmeier was one of the first draft members of the sturmbataillon Rohr.
He took part in many of the most interesting actions and recieved not only the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class, but also the preusiche Militärverdienstkreuz, or golden Military Service Cross, one of just 1773 awarded during the conflict
4. Sturm-Komp. – Königlich Preuß. Sturm-Bataillon
Nr. 5 (Rohr)
Breuer joined the Battalion in 1916 and served at Verdun and in the Champagne when parts of the S.B. Rohr were attached to the 7th Sturmbataillon. He recieved the Iron Cross 1st and 2ndClass See HERE
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Hermann Briest
A young locksmith who trained as a Flamethrower operator, and was then attached to The Jäger-Sturm-Bataillon Nr.3.
On the 2nd of July 1918 he was wounded in an attck at St Albert.
Trained as a Machine Gunner, then a flamethrower operator, then one of the first members of the fledgling German Panzer troops, Buchmüller ended up seeing action as a machine gunner on the western front when German industry could not provide tanks for all its crews
Heinrich Gustav Albert Barthels was born in Lübeck on
the 15th of April 1898 and joined the army on the 24th of September 1914, aged
16 and a half. One day after his 17th Birthday (15th April 1915) he was
transferred to a combat unit, the 13. Komp. I.R. 162 (which became the 9. Komp
I.R. 187)
On the 1st of July 1915 he was wounded by a bullet on
Height 664 to the east of Metzeral. On the 17th of September 1915 he was
wounded by artillery on the Schratzmännle. A week later he was promoted to
Gefreiter.
On the 8th of March 1916 Barthels was sent to
"Sturm Abteilung Rottweil"(The unit seems to have mixed up
Oberrotweil with Rottweil), he stayed until the 7th of May 1916 when he
returned to his unit. The I.R. 187 fought in the Munster
Valley at the
Schratzmännle, Metzeral, Height 664, Barrenkopf etc from June 1915 until August
1916.
Vizefeldwebel Heinrich Kohlmeier
Unteroffizier Adolf Breuer
Hermann Briest
Josef Buchmüller
Heinrich Gustav Albert Barthels was born in Lübeck on
the 15th of April 1898 and joined the army on the 24th of September 1914, aged
16 and a half. One day after his 17th Birthday (15th April 1915) he was
transferred to a combat unit, the 13. Komp. I.R. 162 (which became the 9. Komp
I.R. 187)
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