FROMELLES (FRANCE)
Fromelles May 1915 weergeven op een grotere kaart
House on the road between Fromelles and Aubers (picture: Meijer, 1934)
Unterstand Fromelles
(picture: Solleder, 1932)
SOME OTHER PICTURES AND DRAWINGS OF THE FROMELLES AREA:
‘Road’ between Fromelles and the front line (picture: Meijer, 1934)
House on the road between Fromelles and Aubers (picture: Solleder, 1932)
House on the road between Fromelles and Aubers (picture: Meijer, 1934)
The church of Fromelles
(picture: Solleder, 1932)
Fromelles 1916
(picture: Meijer, 1934)
The station of Fromelles
(picture: Meijer, 1934)
Fromelles
(picture: Meijer, 1934)
The church of Aubers
(picture: Meijer, 1934)
Rote Banke
Location: Rue Delval/ Rue de Leval, (see maps for exact location)
Today: Unsure. It was already ruined in WW1.
The Rote Banke is another location that’s on the maps of Hitler's regiment. Hitler must have known this location.
Befehlstelle Bayern
Location: Southeast of the Deleval Ferme, exact location unknown
Since Hitler had to bring messages from and to the commanding officers the locations where the commanders were located are important. The location of this Befehlstelle is still unkown, but there’s a picture of it. until now I found no source that says Hitler was here.
Rote Banke and the House mit weissem Zaun
Location: Rue Delval (on the corner of the road to Pétillon) Look at the map for the exact locations.
Today: Unknown, but there are still houses there.
Hitler knew the area the Germans called the Rote Banke very well. He drew a picture of the ‘Haus mit weissem Zaun’ that was also on the Rue Delval.
January -
Adolf Hitler and his regiment are mainly in Fromelles.
Somewhere in the beginning of 1916 -
The regiment gets some resting time when they serve as reserve troops in Santes. When Hitler has a day off, he often goes to Lille.
January – February -
Hitler's regiment carries out feint attacks as distraction during the offensive in Verdun.
January 15 -
The 1st batallion goes to Haubourdin for a parade for King Lüdwig III. Hitler was a member of the 1st batallion. If he was with his batallion is unknown. After that it goes back to Fromelles. The command of the the first line is located at the Teehaus on the Gartenstraße. (The Gartenstrasse could be the street between Aubers and Fromelles.) The Sanitätsunterstand of RIR 16 was located opposite to the Regimentsbefehlstelle.
July 1 -
Starting July 19 British and Australian divisions fought with the German soldiers near the village of Fromelles, as a distraction during the Battle of the Somme. The Battle of the Somme took place in the area of Baupame and Albert (France).
July, first week -
Hitler is on a leave. He visits Brussels. A postcard to an a fellow soldier of July 6, 1916 says that this is the most beautiful journey he has ever done, exept for the rain that keeps falling.
July 19 -
The 1st batallion serves as Brigade-
July 19/20 -
Battle of Fromelles. Attack of the Australian army.
July -
In the night of September 24/25 the regiment leaves the trenches of Fromelles for the last time.
In 1916 Adolf Hitler and his regiment were stationed in Vlaanderen and French-
September 24/25 -
RIR 16 leaves the trenches of Fromelles for the last time.
The 1st batallion goes to Loos (east of Haubourdin), the 2nd and 3rd batallion go to Haubourdin.
September 26/27 -
The regiment (all batallions and regiment staf) leaves from Haubourdin station and goes to:
Hermies (1st batallion); Iwuy (2nd batallion + regiment staf).
By foot they go to: Bancourt (1st batallion); Frémicourt (the rest of the troops).
September 28 – October 1-
The regiment has to work on the German positions Riencourt-
October 2 -
The regiment joins the battle at the Somme. It has to go to Frémicourt, ready to leave for the front.
The complete regiment was to go to the lines between Bapaume and Le Bargue, but only the first batallion goes there, behind the front line. The regiment staff is located at Bapaume. Location of the 1st and 2nd batallion: south of Le Barque – Ligny – Thilloy. The 1st batallion goes to the village of Le Bargue.
October 2/3 -
The 1st batallion goes to the front. The second Befehlstelle of the batallion commander is in Le Bargue, near the Regimentsbefehlstelle (exact location not mentioned). The companies on the frontline from left to right (?): 5, 4, 3, 8, 2, 1. Adolf Hitler was here too.
October 5 -
Hitler gets wounded in the thigh during the Battle of the Somme. He is brought to the Sammellazarett in Hermies where he stays until October 6.
October 9 – December 1 -
Hitler recovers in a Red Cross Military Hospital in Beelitz (Germany). He also visits Berlin in this period.
December 3 -
Hitler returns to a reserve batallion in München (Germany). He stays in Germany until March 1917.
Locations of the List regiment when Hitler was in Germany:
Le Bargue, Spatnyriegel, Bapaume, Sancourt, Tilloy (Tilloy-
October 1916 – February 1917 Vimy Höhe
October 16 Vimy Höhe (Hitler not present)
Train from Sancourt to Billy-
Location of the trenches of RIR 16: west of Vimy, with the front line on the flat side of the Vimy Höhe, the wooded side. The defense line was about where the highway runs today.
October 17 – 19 Vimy Höhe (Hitler not present)
Batallions go to the front. The first batallion stands reserve at Merincourt or Douai.
RIENCOURT-
A picture of Hitler (first man on the left) in a shelter in Reincourt-
Unterstand
Location: Unknown
There’s a picture of Hitler inside an Unterstand of Ordonanzen in Riencourt-
GIVENCHY EN GOHELLE (FRANCE)
Cambrai weergeven op een grotere kaart
Bapaume weergeven op een grotere kaart
A map of the Somme region with Le Bargue on it. Here Hitler got wounded. More research is needed to get information about exact locations related to Hitler in this region. (Solleder, 1932)
LE BARGUE (FRANCE)
Le Bargue in 1916
(picture: copyright unknown, 1916)
Regiment Staff
Location: Unknown
From October 2/3 the regiment staff of Hitler's regiment was in Bapaume and Le Bargue. Hitler was in Le Bargue when he got woonded on the thigh on October 5. Adolf Hitler said in Mein Kampf it was on October 7. He was wrong.
The bunker today
(picture: the Hitlerpages, 2007)
Adolf Hitler and his fellow couriers somewhere in the fields in 1916
(picture: Weber, 2010)
LILLE (FRANCE)
SANTES (FRANCE)
The WW1 soldiers house in Brussel (picture: old postcard)
BRUSSELS (BELGIUM)
Two of the corners of Wetstraat/Hertogstraat
(picture: wikipedia)
HAUBOURDIN (FRANCE)
IWUY (FRANCE)
FRÉMICOURT (FRANCE)
BAPAUME (FRANCE)
German soldiers in a ruined street of Bapaume
(picture: Bündesarchiv, wikipedia)
Regiment Staff
Location: Unknown
From October 2 the regiment staff of Hitler's regiment was in Bapaume.Le Bargue is mentioned as ‘Regimentbefehlstelle’ on the same date too.
HERMIES (FRANCE)
Sammellazarett
Location: Unknown
Adolf Hitler got woonded on the thigh in Le Bargue on October 5. He was brought to the Sammellazarett in Hermies. From there he was transported to the Red Cross Military Hospital in Beelitz, Germany. He arrived there on October 9.
