12 March 1944 Part 2

12 March 1944 Part 2 Fortress construction and engineer units on the islands

Complete island-related branches. The uncertain Saint-Martin location has not been identified as a Jersey parish. Mainland branches elsewhere in the chart are outside this extract.

Organisation of fortress staffs, construction units and fortress engineers in the Seventh Army area, status 12 March 1944.

Island sector group, Guernsey: Major May. The symbol is numbered II/19; the accompanying sector-group annotation is faint and appears to read II/11.

Construction Pioneer Battalion 158, Guernsey: Lieutenant-Colonel Seiler.

1st Company: Alderney. 2nd Company: Saint-Martin [remainder of place name unclear]. 3rd Company: Jersey. 4th Company: Guernsey.

Motorised Construction Column 158: Guernsey.

Fortress Engineer Machinery Unit 1: 1st Platoon, Alderney; 2nd Platoon, Jersey; 3rd Platoon, Guernsey.

Fortress Installation Company 1: six installation teams. Three heavy-load platoons, each marked RW 60, are distributed to Alderney, Jersey and Guernsey.

German Seventh Army Headquarters (AOK 7), NARA T-312 Roll 1566. Roll 1566 Jersey and Channel Islands English translations.docx, reference 24. T312-1566.pdf, PDF page 211. PDF pages count from the first page of the supplied file.