This memorial page is dedicated to Adolf Böfing, one of more than 725 war victims connected to the municipality of Deurne documented by Stichting Oorlogsslachtoffers. The municipality of Deurne and the surrounding villages of Liessel, Vlierden, Helenaveen, Neerkant and Zeilberg were liberated in the autumn of 1944 during heavy fighting. Victims fell on all sides: Allied soldiers from countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and New Zealand, and German soldiers.

But the archive covers more than just the combat victims on Deurne soil. Residents of Deurne who lost their lives elsewhere are also commemorated: civilians who were murdered in concentration camps, forced labourers who died in Germany, people who were executed or succumbed to the effects of persecution and oppression. In addition, residents of Deurne who entered German military service and were killed elsewhere are also included.

Stichting Oorlogsslachtoffers has been documenting the story of all these people since 1995, without distinction of nationality, side or background. The goal is to give every person a name and a face, and to keep their memory alive.

 

Name: Böfing
First names: Adolf
Nickname: –
Date of birth: 4 January 1926
Place of birth: Bremen
Residence: –
Rank / Occupation: Pioneer
Identity tag: -8056- Pioneer Replacement and Training Battalion 269
Unit: –
Date of death: 22 September 1944
Place of death: Liessel
Cause of death: –
Cemetery: German Military Cemetery at Ysselsteyn
Memorial site: Sandesneben War Memorial (Germany)


Additional information

Grave location: Section P, Row 7, Grave 170

Adolf Böfing was transferred from his field grave in Liessel, the exact location of which is unknown, to the German military cemetery on Mierloseweg in Mierlo (Section IV, Row A, Grave 5, marked ‘Unknown German Soldier’ 8066 Inf.), from where his remains were reinterred at Ysselsteyn on 6 October 1948. During a re-identification in 1956, the remains were identified as those of Adolf Böfing.

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