Wehrpass board gun mechanic Kriegsmarine torpedo boat and destroyer KIA 1944 Kiel

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Richard Geest, board gun mechanic Mechanikermaat (A) Kriegsmarine torpedo boats

• Wehrpass, 5.7.38. With pas photo wearing HJ uniform with area triangle Nordnordmark. With red cross stamped on the cover because he was KIA.
• Postcard sized Kriegsmarine uniform pass photo made by a photographer in Kiel.
• Accompanying letter from military district office Plön for sending the Wehrpass to his father because Richard was KIA, 8.6.44.

Living in Heikendorf-Kiel. Civil occupation as a gunsmith (Büchsenmacher). Labour service Apr.-Aug.39 and Aug.39 directly transferred to army construction unit Bau-Bataillon 228 in Schafflund where he served one month till he was Sep.39 discharged from Bau-Ersatz-Bataillon 10 and sent to the Kriegsmarine. He served: Oct.39-Jan.40 with replacements unit 13.Schiffs-Stamm-Abteilung in Sassnitz; Jan.-Aug.40 with navy ships artillery school 1.Schiffs-Artillerie-Schule in Kiel; Aug.40-Oct.42 he was crew member of the large S-138 class torpedo boat T190 Claus von Bevern; Oct.-Nov.42 with replacements unit 7.Schiffs-Stamm-Abteilung; Nov.42-Sep.43 again with with 1.Schiffs-Artillerie-Schule in Kiel; Sep.43-Mar.44 on board of a ship of the 6.Zerstörer-Flottille active at the Norwegian coast escorting the battle ships Tirpitz and Scharnhorst. He was KIA on 30.3.44 in Kiel Northern Germany and is nowadays buried at the war cemetery in Heikendorf Schleswig-Holstein Germany. He was most probably crew member of the Zerstörer Z20 “Karl Galster” since that was the only ship of the 6.Zerstörer-Flottille (for repairs) in Kiel at the moment Richard was KIA (in a bombardment?).

Recent information German War Casualties Organization:
Richard Geest
Date of birth 14.06.1919
Place of birth Kasnewitz
Death/missing date 30.03.1944
Death/missing place nicht verzeichnet
Service rank Maat
Richard Geest is buried in the military cemetery in Heikendorf