Wehrpass doctor Oberarzt Pioneers Infantry Eastern Front ISA EK1 VWA

(D22479)

Martin Damerau, Army doctor, Oberarzt, Army Infantry and Pioneers, Military units and hospitals

Wehrpass, 10.11.38. Cover denazified.

Entitled to: Sports Badge, Iron Cross 2nd Class (25.8.41), Winter War Medal (1.8.42), Infantry Assault Badge in Silver (12.11.42) Iron Cross 1st Class (24.8.43) and Wound Badge in Black (9.10.43).

Doctor born 1910 in Carlsruhe Silesia (nowadays Pokoj Poland). Called-up Aug.39 and served: Aug.-Dec.39 with Sanitäts-Ersatz-Abteilung 3 in Berlin; Dec.39-Mar.40 with Standortarzt ?; Mar.-Sep.40 with military hospital Reserve-Lazarett Heeres-Sanitäts-Staffel Küstrin while Jun.-Jul.40 deployed as troop doctor in Poland at Infanterie-Ersatz-Bataillon 338; Sep.-Oct.40 with Sanitäts-Ersatz-Abteilung 3 in Berlin; Oct.40-Jan.41 with Sanitäts-Kompanie 193, the medical field unit of the 93.Infanterie-Division at that moment based in Germany; Jan.41-Mar.42 with III/Infanterie-Regiment 272 of the 93.Infanterie-Division active in Northern Russia (Leningrad); Mar.-Oct.42 with Krankentransport-Abteilung 521, a transport unit for military patients active under the 18.Armee in Northern Russia; Oct.-Dec.42 with Pionier-Bataillon 744, a pioneer unit active under the 18.Armee at Leningrad; Jan.-May 43 with Panzer-Pionier-Bataillon 87 of the 25.Panzer-Division at that moment based in Oslo area Norway; May-Jun.43 with field hospital Kriegs-Lazarett-Abteilung 609 based in Minsk area White Ruthania; Jun-Aug.43 with Stab Divisions-(Füsilier-)Bataillon 253 of the 253.Infanterie-Division active in central sector Russia (Jelnja); Aug.43-Feb.44 with Grenadier-Regiment 464 also of the 253.Infanterie-Division active in central sector Russia (Orel, „Hagen-Stellung“, Brjansk, Bobruisk); wounded 29.9.43 at Golodnoje by shrapnell at right side of his face but stayed with his unit; 26.1.44 ill (pleurisy) and repatriated to Germany; Feb.-Jul.44 for recovery with Sanitäts-Ersatz-und-Ausbildungs-Bataillon 6 in Hamm; Jul.-Sep.44 served with Heeres-Sanitäts-Staffel Mülhausen; from Sep.44 onwards with Heeres-Sanitäts-Staffel Gronau at the military hospital in Gronau at the Dutch/German border; 20.3.45 wounded in the hospital in Gronau at his right thumb by bomb shrapnell.