Letter Reichsbahn Gefreiter Infantry KIA 1941 Smolensk Russia

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Alfred Herbst, Lance Corporal (Gefreiter) Infantry.
Letter from the German National Railways. With detailed information about the death of Alfred. He was KIA on 17.7.41 together with 4 other soldiers of his unit during an Artillery attack at Tichinitschi (Russia, Smolensk area). According information of the German War Casualties Organisation he is still buried in his field grave in Tichinitschi (Belarus).