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Can anyone let me know the best way, or source to trace the owner of a 'Named' helmet? I understand that there are one or two websites to assist, but I do not know of them. I have a surname and a Feldpost number and that is it.
Thanks in advance.
Neil
Can anyone let me know the best way, or source to trace the owner of a 'Named' helmet? I understand that there are one or two websites to assist, but I do not know of them. I have a surname and a Feldpost number and that is it.
As for the name itself, you can give it a go at the volksbund site, they are responsible for the German war cemeteries and they have listings for MIA and KIA soldiers, you can search the name there and see if your name correlates with where the helmet was maybe sourced from.
As for the name itself, you can give it a go at the volksbund site, they are responsible for the German war cemeteries and they have listings for MIA and KIA soldiers, you can search the name there and see if your name correlates with where the helmet was maybe sourced from.
For example these sites gave me the chance to research this item I found metal detecting(in the Rhineland), piece of a gas mask canister named to an Uffz. Pruttseit who I now know probably survived the war, since all the Prusseits in the Volksbund died in the East, also I was able to find out that this FP Nummer relates to a Flak battery which correlates with Flak shell casings I found there.
Anyway, enough of that. Just as an example that it can be a useful tool.
Luis
For example these sites gave me the chance to research this item I found metal detecting(in the Rhineland), piece of a gas mask canister named to an Uffz. Pruttseit who I now know probably survived the war, since all the Prusseits in the Volksbund died in the East, also I was able to find out that this FP Nummer relates to a Flak battery which correlates with Flak shell casings I found there.
Anyway, enough of that. Just as an example that it can be a useful tool.
As for the name itself, you can give it a go at the volksbund site, they are responsible for the German war cemeteries and they have listings for MIA and KIA soldiers, you can search the name there and see if your name correlates with where the helmet was maybe sourced from.
As for the name itself, you can give it a go at the volksbund site, they are responsible for the German war cemeteries and they have listings for MIA and KIA soldiers, you can search the name there and see if your name correlates with where the helmet was maybe sourced from.
If it is a rare name, you can even try phoning the people with the same family name. Of course you don't want to bother the people, but perhaps it helps them too. In one case I could even clarify the identity of an "unknown soldier" this way and the son shed many tears but was very grateful.
If it is a rare name, you can even try phoning the people with the same family name. Of course you don't want to bother the people, but perhaps it helps them too. In one case I could even clarify the identity of an "unknown soldier" this way and the son shed many tears but was very grateful.
