Schuh, Johann

1898 - 1918  (19 years)    Has 18 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Schuh, Johann
  Born	27 Dec 1898	Osburg, , Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
  Gender	Male
  Family History Document	Family History Book - Note is Osburg Family Book Sohn Johann fiel im Kreig bei villers an Erable s Johann must have been part of the German forces that attacked "Viller en E rables" in March 1918.
  Military Service	Note is Osburg Family Book Sohn Johann fiel im Kreig bei villers an Erable s Johann must have been part of the German forces that attacked "Viller en E rables" in March 1918. The following text is abit about that skirmish, tra nslated from a French website mairie.wanadoo.fr/mairie.villers-aux-erables The war 1914-1918 was going all to upset. If the battle of the Sum of Ju ly 1916 touched only little Villers with Maples, it was not the same terri ble combat of March and August 1918.The German attack of March 21, 1918 on the Holy face Quentin - Fère had su cceeded in creating a pocket of 80 kms of depth in the Anglo-French fac e. This one was completely broken between the rivers Avre and Luce. Mar ch 27, 1918, the Foch General, ordering as a head of the allied troops, co nscious of the danger, sent reinforcements and charged the 1st French Ar my of the Debeney General extending his face and with maintaining at all c osts the connection with the English army of the Gough General who moved b ack towards Villers Bretonneux and Amiens.The order was thus given to French to resist until death on the plate of S anterre.Villers with Maples in spite of that was conquered by the Germans on Mar ch 29 1918 around 18 hours. The 321ème Régiment of Infantry in charge of t he defense of the commune lost 19 officers and 750 men, is the near tot al of the manpower engaged in these very hard combat.The German attack took again on March 30 in the morning and Moreuil was lo st by the French around 10 hours, the crossed Avre river, then Morisel a nd Mailly-Raineval fell at the beginning of the afternoon. Anxious of t he German advance, Canadian General SEELY, former Canadian minister for t he war which, its headquarters in Berteaucourt Thennes (5 kms in the weste rn north of Moreuil) had the load of the connection with the French Arm y, gave the order to a Canadian regiment of cavalry to cross the wood of M oreuil and to attack side the German troops to delay, if to make could b e, their advance.It is the squadron C of the "LORD STRATHCONA' S HORSES" (Royal Canadian s, regiment currently stationed in CALGARY Alberta Canada), ordered by lie utenant G. Mr. FLOWERDEW which was in charge of this desperate attack. It was in fact a death sentence...What could make the cavalry counters the hundreds of machine-guns light (m aximas, reduced and improved) used by the German shock troops which attack ed in this sector?With an extraordinary bravery lieutenant FLOWERDEW launched out with his m en, with the lance, against the German battalions. He was very seriously w ounded and died the following day March 31 at the English hospital of Nam ps to the Valley where he could have been transported. Its squadron was de stroyed, and there was not, alas! that some survivors.But it seems that this extraordinary exploit of an incredible courage h ad significant repercussions. The German, perplexed staff on the arriv al of Canadian on the side of divisions of attack, feared a counter-atta ck on his backs, slowed down his commandos of head directed towards Caste l, Sénécat Wood and Rouvrel only located at 3 kms with flight of bird of t he railway Paris Amiens, artery vital for the English army and whose cat ch or prohibition could have made rock the war in favour of German.The German attack towards the village of Rouvrel took again on Mar ch 31 in the morning, but, in the night from the 30 to March 31 of new Fre nch troops had arrived on the spot and after having conquered Sénécat Wo od then the village of Rouvrel, the German troops were pushed back in Séné cat Wood in particular by the 12th Regiment of Cuirassiers arrived in t he night. The railway Paris Amiens was saved and the fate of war 14-18 h ad perhaps rocked in our favour.After baited combat, a last German attack was destroyed on April 4, 1918 a nd after this date the allied troops attempted to reconquer left bank of A vre, which was made in July 1918.August 8 1918 it was the beginning of the great allied offensive of the Fo ch Marshal who brought thereafter the victory of November 11, 1918. The re lease of Villers to Maples was the 1st objective of this attack, conduct ed in this sector by the 31ème army corps.
  Died	31 Mar 1918	War - World War I - Villers En Erables, France
  Person ID	I38521	1FamilyTree
  Last Modified	4 Jul 2016

  
  

  Father	Schuh, Johann,   b. 1 Aug 1861, Osburg, , Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany ,   d. 1 Jul 1947, Osburg, , Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany  (Age 85 years)
  Mother	Bales, Margaretha,   b. 24 Apr 1864, Osburg, , Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany ,   d. 29 Nov 1934, Osburg, , Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany  (Age 70 years)
  Family ID	F12430	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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