Personell of the Railway Batallion No. 5 - 1st of Jan. 1916
The soldier at the telephone is my grandfather Josef Oedekoven, at this time 40 years old. Fortunately he came unwounded back home after the war.
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Karl-Heinz Oedekoven
DATE
1916 - 1916-01-01
LANGUAGE
eng
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Europeana 1914-1918
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