Ruxandra; I had a mesage from Monika who points out that there is an interesting website for the Sappeur Batallions. See; http://www.pioniere.at/index.php?Gliederung-der-kuk-Sappeurtruppe-1912 Apparently the Kriegsarchiv has revised their site give access to some of their contents. See; http://archivinformationssystem.gv.at/archivplansuche.aspx?ID=274659 Dave Dreyer ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ruxandra M. Meinze" <CookyRM@yahoo.de> To: "'Dave Dreyer'" <ddreyer@pacbell.net>; "'Banat List'" <BANAT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 5:46 AM Subject: RE: [BANAT-L] WW one draft registration > Hello Dave, > > Thank you for the information. I have looked up the information on the > webpage and if I am correct the documents from before 1918 have been sent > to > the local authorities where the people were from. So it seems that my > Zampo > is probably in an archive in Budapest, Hungary. I will contact the > Kriegsarchiv anyway and see if they can give me more information. So far I > did not find anything on his battalion on Google. > > Ruxandra Meinze > > -----Original Message----- > From: banat-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:banat-bounces@rootsweb.com] On > Behalf Of Dave Dreyer > Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 3:21 PM > To: Banat List > Subject: Re: [BANAT-L] WW one draft registration > > Ruxandra; > The draft registration applies only to men living in the United States in > 1917. > However, it is possible that the Kriegsarchiv may have some information on > Zampo. Normally they are rather hopeless for men with no special service > record but since this Zampo won a medal it is likely that the Kriegsarchiv > people can find his service record and since you know the date and unit > this > > should help a lot. See the Kriegsarchiv website. > The Kriegsarchive has copies of all the published regimental histories but > it is problematic that one was written for a Sappeur Batallion. But you > can > find out using Google. > Dave Drweyer > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ruxandra M. Meinze" <CookyRM@yahoo.de> > To: "'Dave Dreyer'" <ddreyer@pacbell.net>; "'Banat List'" > <BANAT-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 4:36 PM > Subject: RE: [BANAT-L] WW one draft registration > > >> Dave, >> >> Do you know if the draft registration records for Banaters still living >> in >> Banat or Austria are online too? I found a Johann Zampo (I think he might >> be >> my grandmothers step father)in "Wiener Zeitung Sonntag, den 18. Juni >> 1916. > >> I >> stumbled upon it while trying to find information on him online. >> According >> to the newspaper this Johann Zampo was a Reservefeldwebel in the >> Sappeurbataillon Nr. 7 and received "das Silberne Verdienstkreuz mit der >> Krone am Rande der Tapferkeitsmedaille". This is the first time I found >> anything about a Zampo. Also, do you know where I could find more >> information on the Sappeurbataillon Nr. 7 (list of soldiers and places >> the >> battalion has been)? >> >> Ruxandra Meinze >>