COLLECTION NAME:
World War I and World War II: Personal Narratives
Record
Identifier:
exwsPmr4_pg14_itm1_pc01
Title:
Paul Pommer correspondence, 1918-02-13/16, World War I
Creator:
Pommer, Paul
Description:
Letter from musketeer Paul Pommer addressed to the family of Gust. (Gustav) Pommer in Frankfurt, Germany. Written three days apart on February 13 and 16, and postmarked K.D. Feldpost, February 18, 1918. On the 12th he was still in Wetteren and traveled out east to a small city with this regiment where he stayed in a storage room. The next day, the 13th, he went to Baden? where he spent several hours until around 4, when he wrote the first part of this letter. He was unable to find any postal services. On the 16th he details that he is now in a quiet place called Maubeuge, where he finished up this letter. He was scheduled to stay in this area for a few weeks. The other soldiers are all young men. He begins to describe the past three nights, but the next pages seem to be missing.
Description:
Feldpostbrief; K.D. Feldpost postmark: 18.2.18; Stamp: 6. Komp Inf. Regt. 117;4.75x3.5" (12x9 cm)
Date:
1918-02-13/16
Location:
Maubeuge (France)
Time Period:
Nineteen tens
Subject:
Pommer, Paul--Correspondence
People Identified:
Pommer family
Places Identified:
Wetteren (Belgium)
Subject-AAT:
Correspondence artifacts
Subject:
Soldiers--Germany--Correspondence
Places Identified:
Maubeuge (France)
Subject:
World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, German
Places Identified:
Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
Subject:
Personal correspondence
Publisher:
Western Michigan University
Source:
Paul Pommer, World War I German soldier's scrapbook. World War I German Soldiers Album Collection. Western Michigan University Special Collections: http://luna.library…
Provenance:
Purchased by WMU Special Collections in February 2015 from F.A. Bernett Books of Boston, who obtained them from the family of Paul Pommer, Germany.
Language:
ger
Collection:
World War I and World War II: Personal Narratives
Rights Statement:
Rights Status:
No Known Copyright
Access Rights:
Digital reproduction published by Western Michigan University Library and made available for private study, scholarship or research use under applicable U.S. Law. Access to digital reproductions provided by Special Collections at Zhang Legacy Collections Center, Western Michigan University.
File Format:
image/jp2
Digitization Date:
2020