Dog Tag, French, Hubert Zerr, 'Malgré-nous', KIA, July 2, 1944, Minsk

Nice genuine interwar French identity disc, which belonged to Hubert Zerr, inducted in 1933, service number 1787, Sélestat military district, Bas-Rhin département. 

Good overall condition; retains its original chain bracelet (clasp in working order).

Hubert Zerr was born on August 3, 1913 in Dangolsheim, Bas-Rhin département, which was then part of German-annexed Alsace. Considering that the latter had become French again in 1918, he performed his compulsory military service in France in 1933-1934, wearing the present bracelet for the period.

Forcibly enlisted in the Wehrmacht following the German re-annexion of Alsace in 1940, he was killed in action on July 2, 1944 near Minsk, persent-day Belarus, during Operation Bagration. Although his name can be seen on the family tombstone in Rouffach, Haut-Rhin département, it seems that his body was never found.

https://www.memoiredeshommes.sga.defense.gouv.fr:443/ark:40699/m005e440b1370d0d.moteur=arko_default_66fa612acbc0d

https://memoires.grandest.fr/frontoffice/occidentales/DetailFiche.aspx?num=22295&from=recherche

https://www.webcimetiere.fr/68/Rouffach/recherche/detail/139332!ZERR!1!C.NomUsage+

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