Railway batallion No. 5
Josef Oedekoven, forwarding merchant for Stolberger Zink AG had to serve in the 1st world war as a specialist in the railway batallion 5. MED 5 (Militär-Eisenbahn-Direktion) Mission from 21.08.1915 in Kowno, transferred on 01.10 1915 to Wilna/Lithuania. Duty-Roster: 1st of January 1916
CONTRIBUTOR
Karl-Heinz Oedekoven
DATE
1915-08-21 - 1916
LANGUAGE
eng
ITEMS
1
INSTITUTION
Europeana 1914-1918
PROGRESS
METADATA
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