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Re: US Temporary Military Cemeteries Reutti and Bensheim (Germany)
Rebecca Collier
Jul 18, 2018 1:20 PM
1 person found this helpfulDear Mr. Gaugele,
Thank you for posting your request on History Hub!
We searched the Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General (Record Group 92) and located files that mentioned Bensheim in the General Correspondence Relating to Places, 1936 - 1945 filed under “314.6 (Report of Burials) Germany.” We also searched the General Correspondence Relating to Organizations, 1939 - 1954 and located weekly burial reports for Europe (see 314.6 T/O European Weekly Burial Reports). The cemetery is listed on the report. Weekly Reports No. 1-115 for 1944 have been scanned and are available via the National Archives Catalog by clicking on the link above. They are not arranged by specific burial location.
If you are searching for the burial of a particular serviceman, the information you seek may be contained in his burial case file (later called the Individual Deceased Personnel File or IDPF). Burial case files from 1915-1976 are in the custody of the National Archives at St. Louis, ATTN: RL-SL, P.O. Box 38757, St. Louis, MO 63138-1002. Please contact them regarding access to these records. Their email address is stl.archives@nara.gov.
Please note that for WWII to 1976, the National Archives at St. Louis currently holds the Army Individual Deceased Personnel Files for servicemen with surnames A-L. They have not yet received the records of veterans with surnames M-Z. In order to request those records please write to U.S. Army Human Resources Command, Casualty & Memorial Affairs Operations Division, ATTN: AHRC-PDC, 1600 Spearhead Division Avenue, Department 450, Fort Knox, KY 40122-5405.
We hope that this information is helpful. Best of luck with your research!
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Re: US Temporary Military Cemeteries Reutti and Bensheim (Germany)
Dear Mrs. Collier,
thank you so much for your information!
Contain the mentioned record groups also entries to the cemetery in Reutti (Neu-Ulm)?
Further im interested if the record groups also contains reports from after battle cemeteries in village cemeteries (e.g. Goeppingen, Geislingen, Auendorf)
Thank you!
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Re: US Temporary Military Cemeteries Reutti and Bensheim (Germany)
Rebecca Collier
Jul 19, 2018 11:17 AM
1 person found this helpfulDear Mr. Gaugele,
Thank you for posting your follow-up request on History Hub!
Other cemeteries probably will be listed in the correspondence files indicated in my earlier response. We only mentioned Bensheim because we saw that specific name in these records.
Since the Army Grave Registration units were part of the Quartermaster General, most of the records pertaining to burials will be found in Record Group 92.
We hope that this information is helpful. Best of luck with your research!
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