identification

This is the last freestone picket  ( on the old cimentery in Ronse  )the graves of the German soldiers were identified

The graves had no cross , only a freestone picket . The grave could be identified by the number on the picket.
The number on the picket of Hans Friedrich TROLL was  no.211

At this place the Ehrenfriedhof was situated

Eichen Hochkreuz

Situation in 1941. 68 German soldiers were on the Ehrenfriedhof. In october 1942 Mr. Cordier and Ms. Holvoet-Boddin had to sell a part of their property to enlarge the Ehrenfriedhof. All German soldiers fallen in the surroundings of de Schelde in 1940
(see also my pages of the British soldiers on a lot of  graveyards around de Schelde)
were brought together in Ronse. (478 names)
In august 1948 a number of 513 German soldiers were taken to the German cementery in Lommel by the Service Identification and Cementeries of the Ministry  Department of Home Affaires

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30-e Armeekorps

Bundesarchiv

Bundesarchiv-AACHEN

in de schaduw van de bomen

kameraden

see http://www.volksbund.de/kgs/stadt.asp?stadt=1047

between this trees (who where not there in 1940) I can situate the provisional grave of Hans
Friedrich , born on the 13-04-1887 in Annaberg-Buchholz , fallen in Oudenaarde the 20-05-1940. Now his grave can be found in the Kriegsgräberstätte in Lommel  (blok 25 grab 159)

situation of the grave of Hans Friedrich TROLL