Unit abbreviation help

[Dwight Pruitt]

What were:

Kgf.Arb. Batl 187

and

Marsch-komp. Losch. Ers. u Ausb btl 11


I'm trying to decipher some Wehrpass entries. I know the latter is some sort of a Replacement and Training Battalion, but I have no clue what the first is. Thanks!

[Jan-Hendrik]

Kriegsgefangenen-Arbeits-Batallion 187

Marschkompanie Landesschützen-Ersatz-und-Ausbildungs-Batallion 11

Jan-Hendrik

[Dwight Pruitt]

Thank you!

[baum_gruppe]

I have a small bag of military photographs taken by a soldier who was apparently in several campaigns, as it includes photographs of French and Soviet POWs. My sister found it on top of a pile of trash on the street in Munich ca 1985. I'd like to try to identify some of the locations in the photographs, but the only indication I have of the man's outfit is "Marsch. Komp. / Gren. E.u.A. Btl. 320". Can somebody please tell me what the abbreviation means, and if possible where this battalion was stationed during the war? Cheers

[Richard Anderson]

Grenadier-Ersatz- und Ausbildungs-Bataillon 320 was organized 20 July 1944 in Augsburg. However, a Marsch-Kompanie from the battalion would have consisted of replacements sent to many different areas of the front.