Passes Gefreiter WW1 artillery France Belgium EK2 WW2 Infantry

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Paulus Kleinhans, Lance Corporal (Gefreiter) WW1 artillery and horse depot WW2 Infantry

• WW1 military pass „Militärpass“, 1917.
• Military discharge document, 4.2.19.
• Wehrpass, 3.3.37.

Entitled to: Iron Cross 2nd Class 1914 (29.4.1918).

Cartwright and agricultural worker born 1898 in Obergessertshausen Bavaria. WW1 service: Aug.-Sep.1917 basic artillery training at Feld-Artillerie-Regiment 4 in Augsburg; Sep.1917-Jul.1918 at the western front (France and Belgium) with Feld-Artillerie-Regiment 4, Flandern, Somme, Villers, Avre, Noyan, Marne, Champagne; heavily wounded on 21.7.1918 at head and back by artillery shrapnel and hospitalized; Nov.-Dec.1918 serving with army horse depot Pferde-Depot 5; 1919 attached to Artillerie-Regiment 34, 1.Feld-Artillerie-Regiment and 4.Feld-Artillerie-Regiment and discharged. WW2 service: Apr.37 artillery gunner training at Schwere Artillerie-Regiment 43 in Landshut; Mar.38 active with Infanterie-Regiment 83 during the annexation of Austria; Aug.39-Feb.40 with Infanterie-Regiment 316 of the 212.Infanterie-Division based in the upper Rhine area; Mar.40 with IG-Ersatz-Kompanie 212 in Ingolstadt; discharged and not called-up again.