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Old 03-20-2013, 20:51   #3
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Their names are all known - they include Musketeer Martin Heidrich, 20, Private Harry Bierkamp, 22, and Lieutenant August Hutten, 37, whose names are inscribed on a memorial in the nearby German war cemetery of Illfurth.
The names may be known, but that didn't stop the reporter from messing them up.

It is August Hütten, not Hutten. And he was a Feldwebelleutnant, not a lieutenant. Feldwebelleutnant was the senior NCO rank, basically equivalent to a chief warrant officer.

The regiment, by the way, suffered 2,800 casualties, basically about a 150% casualty rate. It was originally raised in Thuringia, in the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, but with a casualty rate like this, by 1918 it had been refilled with replacements from all over the empire. Hütten, for example, was from Aachen in the Rhineland and Bierkamp was from Hamburg.
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