Wehrpass Schütze IR670 371.Infanterie-Division KIA 1942 Southern Russia

(D22351)

Ewald Lebens, soldier (Schütze) Army Infantry

• Wehrpass, 10.6.40.
• Junkers airplane factory discharge document, 8.9.42.
• Letter from his CO to his parents announcing that he was KIA, 18.7.42. Heavily used condition.

Born 1921 in Kinderbeuern Trier. Working in the highway road construction. RAD service Oct.40-Jan.41 in Trier. Working as an airplane builder at the Junkers airplane factory in Dessau from May 41. Feb.-Mar.42 for basic military training with Schützen-Ersatz-Bataillon 66 in Burg; Mar.-Jul.42 with Infanterie-Regiment 670 of the 371.Infanterie-Division active as occupation force in Belgium (Beverloo) and Jun.-Jul.42 in Southern Russia (Donez, on the way to Stalingrad where the division was Jan.43 completely destoyed). He was KIA near Smelyi on 13.7.42 by a direct hit from a grenade and was buried 20km west of Woroschilowgrad (now named Luhansk) along the Donez.

Recent information German War Casualties Organization:

Ewald Lebens

Date of birth 19.03.1921

Place of birth Kinderbeuern

Death/missing date 13.07.1942

Death/missing place bei Smelyi

Service rank Schütze

Ewald Lebens has probably been transferred as an unknown soldier to the military cemetery Charkiw