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I've found this name Christian Geffert on the casualty lists and I don't know what it says. Is he dead or just injured?  Is gefallen = killed in action?

Also the place (?) names, are they where he was killed/injured or where he was from? And what is the word before his name? Rank?

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Re: Germany, World War I Casualty Lists, 1914-1919 information please
« Reply #1 on: Monday 09 April 18 07:34 BST (UK) »
Feldw. Lt, Christian Geffert, Reitwein, Brandenburg, Gefallen

Feldwebel-Leutnant, Christian Geffert, Reitwein, Brandenburg, (on the Polish border east of Berlin) Gefallen (fallen, killed in action)

The rank of Feldwebel-Leutnant was abolished in 1919.

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Re: Germany, World War I Casualty Lists, 1914-1919 information please
« Reply #2 on: Monday 09 April 18 07:52 BST (UK) »
Davecapps - many thanks for the speedy information!

Does anyone know whether a WW1 German rank such as Feldwebel-Leutnant would be "bought" as a commission or earned on merit?  If the former, it infers a family with a bit of money?

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Sheffield: TURNER
Middlesex: RYDER
<br />Aberdeenshire: EDWARDS, BRODIE<br />Angus STEWART, DIXON, PETRIE

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Re: Germany, World War I Casualty Lists, 1914-1919 information please
« Reply #3 on: Monday 09 April 18 08:08 BST (UK) »
Have'nt much time at the Moment.
Get back to you later

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Re: Germany, World War I Casualty Lists, 1914-1919 information please
« Reply #4 on: Monday 09 April 18 09:52 BST (UK) »
as far as i know the rank was earned on merit. It was comparable to an English warrant officer.

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Re: Germany, World War I Casualty Lists, 1914-1919 information please
« Reply #5 on: Monday 09 April 18 13:05 BST (UK) »
Interesting, thanks Dave.

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Sheffield: TURNER
Middlesex: RYDER
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Re: Germany, World War I Casualty Lists, 1914-1919 information please
« Reply #6 on: Monday 09 April 18 14:46 BST (UK) »
The list relates to 9 Company of 242 Reserve-Infanterie Regiment.  The dates and places above the list - Ypres 1 to 3, 8, 13 to 16 November Broodseinde 13 and 16 November, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 10 December 1914 would appear to refer to the period covered for casualties in that company.

Info here relating to a memorial erected by the Old Comrades : https://www.reservistenverband.de/Regional/7700776007/Reserve_Infanterie_Regiment_No_242

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Re: Germany, World War I Casualty Lists, 1914-1919 information please
« Reply #7 on: Monday 09 April 18 15:50 BST (UK) »
Thank you Max

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Sheffield: TURNER
Middlesex: RYDER
<br />Aberdeenshire: EDWARDS, BRODIE<br />Angus STEWART, DIXON, PETRIE

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Re: SOLVED - Germany, World War I Casualty Lists, 1914-1919 information please
« Reply #8 on: Tuesday 10 April 18 17:07 BST (UK) »
Going back to the other half of your original question, Christian came from Reitwein.

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