England invaded 1940 ?

Discussion in 'Axis Units' started by graeme, Jun 29, 2013.

  1. geoff501

    geoff501 Achtung Feind hört mit

    Thanks Ross. This is what's in my 'page scraped' database for German Army only, Oct '40

    Name: ROTH, RUDOLF
    Initials: R
    Nationality: German
    Rank: Soldier
    Regiment: German Army
    Date of Death: 30/10/1940
    Casualty Type: Foreign National
    Grave/Memorial Reference: Block 1, Grave 209.
    Cemetery: CANNOCK CHASE GERMAN MILITARY CEMETERY

    Name: HOFMANN, GEORG
    Initials: G
    Nationality: German
    Rank: Soldier
    Regiment: German Army
    Date of Death: 25/10/1940
    Casualty Type: Foreign National
    Grave/Memorial Reference: Block 5, Grave 361.
    Cemetery: CANNOCK CHASE GERMAN MILITARY CEMETERY

    Name: FROMME, ANTON
    Initials: A
    Nationality: German
    Rank: Soldier
    Regiment: German Army
    Date of Death: 17/10/1940
    Casualty Type: Foreign National
    Grave/Memorial Reference: Grave 156.
    Cemetery: FORT GEORGE MILITARY CEMETERY, ST. PETER PORT, GUERNSEY

    Name: MOLITOR, PETER
    Initials: P
    Nationality: German
    Rank: Soldier
    Regiment: German Army
    Date of Death: 17/10/1940
    Casualty Type: Foreign National
    Grave/Memorial Reference: Grave 155.
    Cemetery: FORT GEORGE MILITARY CEMETERY, ST. PETER PORT, GUERNSEY

    Name: PONCKE, HEINRICH
    Initials: H
    Nationality: German
    Rank: Soldier
    Regiment: German Army
    Age: 27
    Date of Death: 20/10/1940
    Service No: 19
    Casualty Type: Foreign National
    Grave/Memorial Reference: Block 1, Grave 151.
    Cemetery: CANNOCK CHASE GERMAN MILITARY CEMETERY

    Name: HAUSDORF, HAROLD
    Initials: H
    Nationality: German
    Rank: Soldier
    Regiment: German Army
    Date of Death: 28/10/1940
    Service No: 6964139
    Casualty Type: Foreign National
    Grave/Memorial Reference: Block 5, Grave 3.
    Cemetery: CANNOCK CHASE GERMAN MILITARY CEMETERY

    Name: HAVEMANN, HEINZ
    Initials: H
    Nationality: German
    Rank: Soldier
    Regiment: German Army
    Date of Death: 16/10/1940
    Casualty Type: Foreign National
    Grave/Memorial Reference: Block 9, Grave 2. (Coll.).
    Cemetery: CANNOCK CHASE GERMAN MILITARY CEMETERY

    Name: HERZOG, KARL
    Initials: K
    Nationality: German
    Rank: Soldier
    Regiment: German Army
    Date of Death: 07/10/1940
    Casualty Type: Foreign National
    Grave/Memorial Reference: Block 8, Grave 162. (Joint).
    Cemetery: CANNOCK CHASE GERMAN MILITARY CEMETERY

    Name: HILDEBRANDT, EMIL
    Initials: E
    Nationality: German
    Rank: Soldier
    Regiment: German Army
    Date of Death: 04/10/1940
    Service No: 53577-168
    Casualty Type: Foreign National
    Grave/Memorial Reference: Block 4, Grave 193.
    Cemetery: CANNOCK CHASE GERMAN MILITARY CEMETERY

    Name: HOFMANN, ERHARD
    Initials: E
    Nationality: German
    Rank: Soldier
    Regiment: German Army
    Date of Death: 24/10/1940
    Casualty Type: Foreign National
    Grave/Memorial Reference: Block 5, Grave 40.
    Cemetery: CANNOCK CHASE GERMAN MILITARY CEMETERY

    Name: HOLZER, JOHANN
    Initials: J
    Nationality: German
    Rank: Soldier
    Regiment: German Army
    Date of Death: 05/10/1940
    Service No: 53-546-205
    Casualty Type: Foreign National
    Grave/Memorial Reference: Block 1, Grave 361.
    Cemetery: CANNOCK CHASE GERMAN MILITARY CEMETERY

    Name: IRRGANG, ERHARD
    Initials: E
    Nationality: German
    Rank: Soldier
    Regiment: German Army
    Date of Death: 16/10/1940
    Casualty Type: Foreign National
    Grave/Memorial Reference: Block 1, Grave 212.
    Cemetery: CANNOCK CHASE GERMAN MILITARY CEMETERY

    Name: JOHANNSEN, HEINZ
    Initials: H
    Nationality: German
    Rank: Soldier
    Regiment: German Army
    Date of Death: 11/10/1940
    Service No: 73711-55
    Casualty Type: Foreign National
    Grave/Memorial Reference: Block 7, Grave 191.
    Cemetery: CANNOCK CHASE GERMAN MILITARY CEMETERY

    Name: KLATT, HORST
    Initials: H
    Nationality: German
    Rank: Soldier
    Regiment: German Army
    Date of Death: 04/10/1940
    Service No: 60035-17
    Casualty Type: Foreign National
    Grave/Memorial Reference: Block 1, Grave 110.
    Cemetery: CANNOCK CHASE GERMAN MILITARY CEMETERY

    Name: KNITTEL, WERNER
    Initials: W
    Nationality: German
    Rank: Soldier
    Regiment: German Army
    Date of Death: 28/10/1940
    Casualty Type: Foreign National
    Grave/Memorial Reference: Block 8, Grave 161.
    Cemetery: CANNOCK CHASE GERMAN MILITARY CEMETERY

    Name: KOLB, RUDOLF
    Initials: R
    Nationality: German
    Rank: Soldier
    Regiment: German Army
    Date of Death: 05/10/1940
    Service No: 60554-92
    Casualty Type: Foreign National
    Grave/Memorial Reference: Block 1, Grave 388.
    Cemetery: CANNOCK CHASE GERMAN MILITARY CEMETERY

    Name: KOSCHELLA, GEORG
    Initials: G
    Nationality: German
    Rank: Soldier
    Regiment: German Army
    Date of Death: 06/10/1940
    Service No: 62748-26
    Casualty Type: Foreign National
    Grave/Memorial Reference: Block 9, Grave 6. (Coll.).
    Cemetery: CANNOCK CHASE GERMAN MILITARY CEMETERY

    Name: KUHN, ALFRED
    Initials: A
    Nationality: German
    Rank: Soldier
    Regiment: German Army
    Date of Death: 30/10/1940
    Service No: 4 FL H B KP II
    Casualty Type: Foreign National
    Grave/Memorial Reference: Block 5, Grave 148.
    Cemetery: CANNOCK CHASE GERMAN MILITARY CEMETERY

    Name: KUHNE, SIEGBERT
    Initials: S
    Nationality: German
    Rank: Soldier
    Regiment: German Army
    Date of Death: 08/10/1940
    Service No: 65119 B 69 A
    Casualty Type: Foreign National
    Grave/Memorial Reference: Block 9, Grave 54. (Coll.).
    Cemetery: CANNOCK CHASE GERMAN MILITARY CEMETERY

    Name: LEGE, PAUL
    Initials: P
    Nationality: German
    Rank: Soldier
    Regiment: German Army
    Date of Death: 07/10/1940
    Service No: 53537-13
    Casualty Type: Foreign National
    Grave/Memorial Reference: Block 1, Grave 34.
    Cemetery: CANNOCK CHASE GERMAN MILITARY CEMETERY

    Name: LENZ, ALFRED
    Initials: A
    Nationality: German
    Rank: Soldier
    Regiment: German Army
    Date of Death: 29/10/1940
    Service No: 65176 B-16
    Casualty Type: Foreign National
    Grave/Memorial Reference: Block 1, Grave 27.
    Cemetery: CANNOCK CHASE GERMAN MILITARY CEMETERY
     
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  2. geoff501

    geoff501 Achtung Feind hört mit

    ...And it's quite possible they have been put down as army instead of air force...I guess a cross check on VDK will tell if there are errors
     
  3. RAFCommands

    RAFCommands Senior Member

    Something adrift here.

    The excel file was supplied by Maidenhead about a month ago.

    Looking at the first entry you have gives from the excel file
    2130 ROTH Airman R RUDOLF German Air Force 30-Oct-1940 Block 1, Grave 209. CANNOCK CHASE GERMAN MILITARY CEMETERY Staffordshire United Kingdom Second World War Air Force German
     
  4. geoff501

    geoff501 Achtung Feind hört mit

    Yes looks like there database was in error when I grabbed it. I have 763 records for 1940.
     
  5. graeme

    graeme Senior Member

    Hi

    re Geoff's list for Cannock, with the exception of Poncke, they are all Luftwaffe crews.

    Regards,

    Graeme
     
  6. RAFCommands

    RAFCommands Senior Member

    Just checked Werner Knittel. His body was recovered in Sept 1973 from the wreck of Bf 109E-4, Werk num 5095.

    Regards
    Ross

    Postings crossed. So it looks like my numbers are the correct ones.
     
  7. RCG

    RCG Senior Member, Deceased

    Second error.
    Littlestone-on-Sea is not in Norfolk, but a small coastal village close to New Romney Kent.
     
  8. graeme

    graeme Senior Member

    Hi

    Do you ever wish you hadn't stated something ??

    Regards,

    Graeme
     
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  9. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    Many, many times.
    ;)
     
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  10. Ron Goldstein

    Ron Goldstein WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    At the risk of repeating myself..........,

    Brian

    The Germains never landed in England in WW2.

    End of story.

    Our only problem is trying to convince others of the truth of that statement and that, I fear, would be a complete and utter waste of our time and effort.

    Have a good day !

    Ron
     
  11. dbf

    dbf Moderatrix MOD

    Sometimes, in many instances right in the middle of
     
  12. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    Owen - what's the ref for the Wilts war diary for the bloke that went missing. I get it next month for starters. :)
     
  13. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

  14. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    Added all three to my list ;)
     
  15. Dave55

    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

    What about Col Steiner and his men? :)
     

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  16. Mike L

    Mike L Very Senior Member

    Winds, tides and currents can do strange things. One man lost from the 9th LCT flotilla (see my thread on 'Martin Long' or 'HMLCT 488') was found on the coast of Brittany in 1944. Most of the bodies of the lost were never recovered.
    The 'burnt from the waist down' reports seem very strange. Can anyone account for similar injuries or cause of death?
     
  17. Swiper

    Swiper Resident Sospan

    Hmm...

    A few years ago I read about some French civilians who witnessed a German landing barge exercise loaded with troops end in disaster off the coast of France, straffed by some British aircraft causing a fuel leak that ignited killing a number of German soldiers. This was attributed to the story of the burned bodies as a partial explanation, as always could be fabricated or another tall tale.
     
  18. phylo_roadking

    phylo_roadking Very Senior Member

    In relation to the possibility of items...including bodies!...floating all the way across the Channel...

    ...the war diary of No.5 Commando, temporarily stationed in St. Margaret's Bay, Dover, in the autumn of 1940, records that on the 30th of October a tin of German rations washed up in the Bay!!!
     
  19. Staffsyeoman

    Staffsyeoman Member

    Pretty sure there was a book about this 'failed invasion' with half burned bodies within the last five years or so... but I'm blowed if I can remember its title or author... I do recall that the cover photo was posed with re-enactors, if that sets anyone else's grey cells off.
     
  20. Cee

    Cee Senior Member Patron

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