This memorial page is dedicated to Bernhard Emile Dreistadt, 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: Dreistadt
First names: Bernhard Emile
Nickname: –
Date of birth: 30 October 1925
Place of birth: Spittel, L’Hôpital (France)
Residence: –
Rank / Occupation: Senior Grenadier
Identity tag: 854 – Headquarters Company, Panzergrenadier Replacement Battalion 104
Unit: –
Date of death: 28 October 1944
Place of death: Liessel
Cause of death: –
Cemetery: German Military Cemetery at Ysselsteyn
Memorial site: –


Additional information

Grave location: Plot TJ, Row 5, Grave 55

Son of Jean Dreistadt and Suzanne Dreistadt-Rennerath

Bernhard Dreistadt’s field grave was situated 1 metre north of the ditch running alongside Kanaalstraat and 122 metres west of the western corner of the emergency accommodation L.N.115, occupied by J. van Seccelen.

A report on the exhumation, containing identification details, drawn up by the Identification and Recovery Service, may be available for inspection from the author.

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