German Soldiers' Postcards

[stockman fred]

I'm not sure if this should be under "military" or "other countries" but I've inherited a small bundle of WW1 German postcards with my Great Uncle's papers. He commanded a mortar battery with the Dorsetshire Regt. and must have picked up the cards on the battlefield or  from prisoners.
Three cards come from a young lady at "Pflegenin Berlin 55 Frobelstr 17" addressed to Musketier W Lipke, Res.Inf Regt 209. Two of these show a girl's photo and all were posted between 19-22 April 1916.
Four cards are addressed to Inf.Alois Koller, Res Inf Regt 6 and come from Frankfurt, Lohberg (NBY), and "LAM" between 20 Sept 1915 and Feb 16 1916. These show more sentimental scenes.
The cards have all gone via "Feld post".
There is also a box of "See-Sport cigaretten fur unsere feldgrauen" on which someone has scribbled the times of sentry duty.
I wonder if there is any way of finding out more about the soldiers and whether they survived? I tried the German equivalent of the CWG site but they seem to require dates of birth and so on. Does anyone know if there is a list of POWs in our Army records?
Any ideas on where to go with this line of enquiry would be gratefully received.
Fred

[liverpool annie]

Hi Fred !

If I were you I would post your question on the Great War Forum too !!

http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/

There's quite a few German gentlemen on there - that specialise in WW1 memorabillia that may be able to help you ! as well as there being some pretty talented people on here also !! 

Annie 

[stockman fred]

Thanks for the link, I'll give it a try!
I asked a Dutch friend who is fluent in German whether she could read any of the messages on the cards, but the writing is really crammed in and she couldn't make out very much. 
Fred.

[Dimps]

I, for one, would be really curious about your progress.  Please let us know how you get on.

Dimps

[stockman fred]

I've found a note that the 3rd Dorsets were inspected by the Brigadier of the 76 th Brigade on the 21 April 1916 and he sent a message on 1st May congratulating the Mortar Battery for their behaviour during the recent gassing attack. At about this time, uncle was awarded the Military Cross for his work with the mortars around Kemmel near Ypres, so perhaps this is where the cards came from. The dates would be about right.
Uncle left various bits of paper, orders, train tickets and so on from the period in an old suitcase, and  never wrote down what anything meant, but I bet it all meant something to him.
Fred

[Berlin-Bob]

Hi Stockman Fred,

there was a topic recently about a discovered Soldbuch (pay book)

see Topic: German "Soldbuch"
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,110515.0.html

Biker supplied an address for the Deutsche Dienststelle (reply #11) and you can see what happened then on reply #12.

I don't know if postcards would have the same importance as a pay-book, but it's worth a letter, asking if they can help.

Bob

[stockman fred]

Thanks for the info Bob, I will finish checking the rest of Uncle's papers in case there are any more clues, then I'll follow the links  and see what happens.
Thanks for the advice!
Fred