As I explained in my intro posting my knowledge background is in British WW1 period Army records and I have no knowledge of the structure, location and availability of WW1 German Army and Air Force records. Neither do I speak any German.
The first event which I am trying to add final details to is as follows. FE2b No 6992 of No 11 Squadron RFC reputedly took-off about 2:30pm / 14:30 hrs (British time) on October 10th 1916 and was attacked and subsequently witnessed going down in flames near Beugny, north-east of Bapaume, Somme. There appears to be come confusion as to who actually shot it down, some sources claiming it was Hptm
Oswald Boelcke of Jasta 2, but it seems to be much more likely that it was Hptm
Martin Zander of Jasta 1 – who possibly mistook FE2b No 6992 to be a DH2 (?).
The first question therefore is can anybody firm up who it was who shot down 6992; what were they flying (type and number), and where more precisely did 6992 crash ?
Moving on; we know that the Germans buried the two crewmen from 6992 in graves 219 and 220 at Fremicourt Communal Cemetery German Extension because we have a copy the German Gräberverwaltungsoffiziere’s 1916 register entries for these burials at “Fremicourt Militärfriedhof” (sourced from the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge).
The second and more important question is that I want to try and establish the sequence of events between the shooting-down and the burials at Fremicourt. Airmen on both sides tended to be quite respectful with regards to the burial of dead enemy airmen (especially this far behind the front) and our hope would be that some German records might mention the event.
Any and all help with this will be much appreciated – most especially with regards to the second question.
Tom