[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] RUSSIAN MILITARY as Lived by German Russian Solders.

[CHRIS]

Dear Folks
     At this point I would lke to THANK EVERY ONE that mailed in the happenings of their ancesters that were active in the First World War as a russian soldier.
     With all the information that was given, I have come to the following conclusion because of the information that was given to me by my mother in the years that I was growing up. here is what she had told me.
   1. She often told me or us that her dad was a picked guard for the Czar of Russia.
   2. Then she also told us that he had died in a german prisoner war camp about 1918 of the Grosse Kronkiet ( flu ). The bad part of this is that his wife also passed away with the flu in the same year. This left my mother and her brother without parents.
     At one point I was unable to imagine how my Grandfather could die in a prisoner of war camp while being a guard for the Czar. The picture we have of him is a very smart looking man with in a smart looking uniform. This is the summation that I have come to believe.
     A.-Our Grandfather was drafted or joined the Czar's army and worked hard to achieve the status of a chosen guard.
     B.-Along came the Bolchevics and the revolution, this killed his previous status and was sent to the front somewhere. Not wishing to shoot fellow germans he possibly chose to surrender which many did  With poor living conditions and food shortage created his death.
     It would be great to know where the german prisoner of war camps were located on the eastern front so a person could find his place of death.
     How does a person get to search the church books in weurttenberg, The other day we were unable to find them in the family centre?  If someone comes up with a German organization would the be able to communicate in english. The size of my german vocabulary is very small.
         Thank You Again;    As Ever;   Chris Bechtold  at   bechtold5 at telus.net