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Contents: • 40-page typed narrative diary beginning September 19, 1914 — the unit's departure for the front just weeks after war was declared
• Vivid first-person accounts of battlefield conditions in Alsace, including the church field hospital at Saales
• Complete operational log of 62 separate wounded transport missions
• Final tally: 12,893 wounded soldiers transported
• Named personnel roster including unit commander Jakob Schobloch
• Iron Cross patterned endpapers original to the bindingAlso included — original loose documents inserted within the volume: • Handwritten notecard on original Freiwillige Sanitätskolonne Lindau letterhead (Red Cross header), signed and dated by Jakob Schobloch, August 18, 1921
• Full printed membership solicitation letter on unit letterhead, signed by unit leadership including Schobloch as Kolonnenführer
• Tear-off membership registration form (Anmeldeschein), dated 1921, unused
• Two original issues/clippings from the Lindauer Tagblatt newspaper (1921), including front-page coverage of the unit's regional conferenceCondition: Green cloth hardcover binding, intact. Pages clean and legible throughout. All loose inserts present and intact.Provenance: Assembled by Kolonnenführer (Column Commander) Jakob Schobloch in 1921 as an institutional record of the unit's wartime service.This is a genuine, intact primary source document — not a reprint or reproduction. The unit operated in the Alsace theater during the opening months of WWI, transporting wounded from front-line collection points including Saales, Bourg-Bruches, St. Blaise, Conflans, Mars-la-Tour, and Chambley to hospitals across the region.This archive has survived over 100 years as a complete, unseparated collection. Ships carefully packed and fully insured. International buyers welcome.
