[Zulis]

Hello Gunnar

Thank you for explaining the Forell unit... all you said makes sense when viewing the layout of the map. It is not far from FLA 37, and, from that location, could easily have shifted the short distance to Windau (Ventspils) for Albion.

All right - units and locations on May 20, 1917. The german spellings may not be perfect - the print on the map is a bit thick and it smudges some letters. I have placed the present-day place name in brackets.

R.Fl.A 500 - Alt-Auz (Vecauce)

Fl.Abt.37 - Paulsgnode (north edge of Mitau/Jelgava)

Fl.St.Forell - Tuckum (Tukkums)

See Fl. St. - Angernsee (Engures Ezers - north end)

Fl.Abt.22 - Gr.Ekau (Iecava)

Fl.Abt.16 - Neugut (Vecummuiza - about 20 km due east of Fl.A.22)

A.Fl.A.236 - Daudservas (Daudzese - about 15 km SSE of Jaunjelgava)
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A.O.K.8 - Mitau (Jelgava)

69 A.K. - also Mitau (Jelgave). This location has a pencilled in scribble which looks like "Gen.W."

58 A.K. - Gr.Salwen (Lielzalva) This location has a pencilled in scribble which looks like "Gen.K."

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Now, the flak units and such will be a bit of a problem. None of them are named on the map, just represented by a symbol. They are spread all along the front from Tukkums... passing to the south of Riga... and on along the south side of the Daugava to Jakobstadt (Jekabpils). They are spaced typically 4 - 10 km apart, and most of them are probably in fields and such, not in a town for easy identification. There are more than 40 of them along that line. Perhaps it is enough to say that any point along that line is no more than 5 km from a flak unit. I hope that will suffice.

Regards,

Dave Zulis