Amersfoort, Netherlands 1944

Hi to all,

i am looking for more informations on the city of Amersfoort in the Netherlands 1944. My Grandpa served in the 2.Fallschirmjäger Division and after the surrender of Brest a few groups of the Para´s made their way back to Amersfoort where the Division was refreshed. In the internet is only a few material to find to the city and less information to the units that were in this city. Has anyone of you more informations or an good advice where to find more?

Any help is appreciated!

Thank you in advance

Ulrich

 

Feiten en ficties rond Amersfoort - Overval op Distributiekantoor Amersfoort (1944) nader onderzocht has this got any info, ulrich

http://www.kampamersfoort.nl/zhisc2.html

 

Thanks for the efforts Ray, but this covers more the history of an Camp called "Erweitertes Polizeilager" but it is interesting too! I am looking more for detailed informations on Para units, their Barracks and how long they stayed at there.

Thank you

Regards

Ulrich

 

of course..thanks ulrich..this might be of interest too..metal detector time..envious..yes..

Amersfoort (Holland) dugups. - World War II Forums

 

Thanks Ray, that was good reading and nice pics! I wish i have the camouflaged Para helmet. I am jealous!

Regards

Ulrich

 

Dear Ulrich, a couple of links for you and all:

• Axis History Factbook: 2. Fallschirmjäger-Division
• 2. Fallschirm-Jäger-Division
• http://www.battlevault.com/Events/Wolfkrieg-08%20Flames%20of%20War/Player%20List-Hist/Tim%20Gaffney-Hist.pdf
• Airborne: World War II Paratroopers ... - Google Libros

Jan.

 

Hi Jan,

Thanks for the information The Google library is new to me, good read!

Regards

Ulrich

 

does anyone know about or the names or places of aid stations in Arnhem?

 

You're right, Ulrich....It's a wonderful resource

This link I think that you like, Pte Tetley: BBC - WW2 People's War - Experiences of a medical officer at Arnhem




Jan.

 

thanks for the link, was very help full, but does anyone know were the regiment aid station was at arnhem around the dates 18-22 sept 1944? or weather there were small aid stations closer to the LZ and DZ's or around wolfheze?

any information will be greatly appreciated

 

http://www.moonroller.com/jebbitt/arnhem.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Waddy_(British_Army_officer)

At the Regimental Aid Post, Waddy found that the doctors did not rate his chances particularly highly;[21] the 156 Battalion's war diary even recorded that "B Company commander was fatally wounded".[27] He was taken next to a Field Ambulance post and from there to the Tafelburg hotel in Oosterbeek, now being used as a Main Dressing Station.[21] Here he was operated on in the hotel's billiard room where Major Guy Rigby Jones used the billiard table to perform surgery.[28][29] A day later he was moved to a house opposite as the number of casualties increased. Because the aid stations were in the front lines of the Oosterbeek perimeter, they came under constant fire and he was wounded twice more. A mortar round shell fragment lodged in his left foot, and a later hit caused splinter injuries to his face and shoulder.[28] On another occasion, as the battle seesawed around the aid post, Germans occupied his building. A British sniper shot a German rifleman, prompting a German sergeant to lecture the British about shooting at a Red Cross house.[29] When the house caught fire he was taken outside and driven to a collection point from where German medics took him to Apeldoorn.[21]
Waddy spent the next six weeks in a German hospital in Apeldoorn. Once again the British patients were lectured about firing at the Red Cross after a Spitfire strafed the operating theatre,[21] but overall Waddy was impressed by the kindness of the German staff and guards.[30] He narrowly avoided having his foot amputated when a nurse removed the splinter embedded in it with a pair of forceps,[31] and once he had sufficiently recovered from his wounds he was taken to Stalag VII-A where he remained until the camp was liberated at the end of April 1945.[21]

 

thank you, again any other information will be of great help to me, thanks sniper 1964

 

your welcome Pte...

 

does anyone have a PDF or Printable file of a Emergency Medical Tag "British or American" as i'm sure the British medics used the yank EMTs, if i'm wrong could someone show or tell me the British equivalent of an EMT is?

 

http://www.5thrib.com/equipmentmedical.htm#tags

http://med-dept.com/emt.php

 

thanks sniper1946 you have been a great help

 

hi Everyone, i'm starting to get some paperwork together for my British WW2 kit, does any one have any PDFs or Printable files of British paperwork, "drivers licence, leave pass, that sort of thing", also i'm am looking for some ww2 ration box or labels "British if anyone has them" but if not american K ration will be alright.

Any help will be much appreciated

 

Dear Ulrich:

I locate in the National Archives of Nederland an interesting data in 1944 and the city in your interest:
Amersfoort, 1944, texts

All the texts are translatable online.





Jan.

 

Hi Jan,

many thanks for the Link! A good resource!!

All the best

Ulrich

 

You are wellcome, Ulrich!


My link is complemented with this, the Nederland Image/Photo Archive





Jan.