[OL]Oldenburg Military History

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Hello Fred,

I am very interested in the article you are going to write.
I found a document of 1871 of my greatgrandfather, an Ersatz-Reserve Schein
of the 37 th Infanterie Brigade of the Oldenburg Landwehr.
In 1872 he left Oldenburg for Holland.

Regards,

Yair

2

Yes the 37th Brigade was the home of the 91st Regiment. It also
included troops from the Bremen area. The Landwehr was the
reserve component.

Fred

PS I have a list of all 4236 soldiers who fell from the 91st during
WWI. In addition 112 officers were killed in action within the
regiment. Another 16 died in other units.

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Hello Fred,

Thanks for your description of the Oldenburg military history. You wrote
that you have a list of fallen soldiers of the 91 st. Would it be
possible to publish this list?
I am looking for several uncles of my grandfather , by the name
Speckmann, who fell in 1914.

Thanks a lot,

Yair

my email address : malachiy@netvision.net.il

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Publish thousands of names? How? I'm still working on getting an
OCR program which will read that stupid old Fraktur font.

These names are by unit and not by alphabetic order. Let me start
a search:

bunch of Spiekermanns

Speckmann, Fritz - Musketier, 4th Comp., died of his wounds in
the hospital at Mainz on 12 Oct 1915

Speckmann, Karl - Gefreiter (Private), 7th Comp., died 16 Jun 1915
in Wolka Zapolowska

Speckmann, Johann - Res. (reserve?), 8th Comp., killed in action
28 aug 1914 Guise

Speckmann, Friedrich - Gefreiter 10th Comp., KIA 24 Jun 1916 in
Pont Faverger

Fred

PS are they all from the same family?

5

Fred,

Thanks for the names you gave me. I will check how they connect to my
grandfather. He had several uncles from Oldenburg visit him every year in
Holland, till WWI. In 1914 some of them were killed, but I don't know
their names or exact relationship.

Thanks Yair