Flemish Waffen-SS documents

19/10/2026
Waffen-SS File of a Fleming within the Flemish Legion and Sturmbrigade Langemarck

A beautiful and rare Waffen-SS file of a Fleming.

Units:

  • 8./SS Freiw. Standarte Nordwest

  • 3./SS Freiw. Leg. 'Flandern'

  • 3./SS Freiw. Sturmbrig. Langemarck

  • Stabskp.Pi./6.SS-Langemarck

Ranks:

  • SS-Schütze: June 1941 – 01.11.1941

  • SS-Oberschütze: 01.11.1941 – 20.06.1942

  • SS-Sturmmann: 20.06.1942 – 01.10.1943

  • SS-Rottenführer: 01.10.1943 –

Decorations:

  • Wound Badge in Black (22.06.1942)

  • Eastern Front Medal (11.04.1942)

Wounds / Medical History:

  • 30.03.1942: Wounded in field hospital: grazing shot to the right upper arm => Entry on his SS-Stammkarte

  • 12.01.1943: Hospital admission – sick

  • 23.01.1943: Admitted due to pyoderma [bacterial skin infection] on both lower legs


Information: He served as a runner/messenger (Melder) in the 3rd Company, just like A. Van den Abeele.

Combat Deployments: 

  • 15.11.1941 – 15.12.1941: Defensive battles in Leningrad area

  • 10.01.1942 – 17.03.1942: Defensive battles (Abwehrkämpfe) along the main highway (Rollbahn) Novgorod – Lyubtsy

  • 18.03.1942 – 30.03.1942: Offensive and defensive battles to encircle/seal off the Volkhov Pocket (Wolchow-Kessel) => 30.03.1942 Wounded, Field Hospital Graz => 2nd-degree frostbite on the right foot

  • 04.07.1942 – 12.01.1943: Participated in battles with the 2nd SS Infantry Brigade (motorized) / Legion Flandern (Defensive battles at Leningrad)

    • => Hospital admission – sick: pyoderma [bacterial skin infection] on both lower legs

  • 30.12.1943 – 31.03.1944: Participated in battles with SS-Panzerkampfgruppe "Das Reich" and the 3rd Company of the 6th SS Volunteer Sturmbrigade "Langemarck"

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