cloth aeroplane gefr thomas hermann

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Hello,

I bought 2 pieces of camouflaged cloth with a small indication paper glued to it.
It was found 20 years ago by a friend and he bought it out first hand source .
It came from a house in Gent ( Belgium)

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The fabric tells in french ( language used a lot in flanders WW1 era) :
Piece of cloth from the wing of a german plane, fallen in the garden of the Van Ceulenbrouck plant . Concorde street on 24/07/1918.

Following german pilots fell on that day:

On 24 juli 1918 "Casualties of the German Air Service",
de volgende 17 verliezen:

Flg. Karl Weber - Charleroi
Uffz. Karl Jung - Compiègne
Flg. Oswald Warch - Courlaidon
Flg. Andreas Englert - Frankfurt a.M.
Gefr. Thomas Herrmann - Gent
Hermann Held - P - FBS Jütrbg - Jüterbog
Ltn. Joachim Hohmann - O - FBS Jütrbg - Jüterbog
Gefr. Peter Rudolph - Kassel
FeldUArtz. Oskar Kelch - Köningsberg
Uffz. Sebastian Gabler - Kottbus
Flg. Edgar Wick - Kottbus
Ltn.d.R. Heinrich Prössdorf - O - FA 234(A) - Loupeigne
Uffz. Erich Irrgang - Lübeck
Flg. Paul Splinter - Lüdenscheid
FugzgMtr. Erich Grossmann - Ostsee
Vfw. Kurt Beinecke - P - Jasta 51 - Pont Ronge
Uffz. Kurt Hoffmann - P - Jasta 51 - Pont Rong

I checked a chart of Gent WW1 period :



So there existed a street with the name rue de la concorde in ghent .
I also know in that street there are some old industrie/plants .
I just have to check if there was a plant Van Ceulenbrouck.

Hermann Thomas : first buried in Gent ( probably westerbegraafplaats ( were LZ37 personel was buried also )

Thomas Herrmann is now buried in Vladsloo .

He was part of AFP4 . armee flugpark 4 ( Gent / Ghent /Gand)

° 4/7/1897 en + Gent 24/07/1918 .

if anyone has some more information about the plane; how he fell and about the pilot.

I would be gladd to receave more information .

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Ouf!
it worked after some problems.

Maybe admin can clean up the bad messages.

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the factory van ceulenbroeck has been 100% identified in the rue de la concorde in Ghent / gent .

flemish:
"In wegwijzer van 1917 staat geschreven Van Ceulebroeck E. fab van wollestoffen kasteellaan 16 en Eendrachtstraat nr 16

In wegwijzer van 1914 staat Van Ceulebroeck E. fab van wollestoffen Kasteellaan 16 over de eendrachtstraat spreekt men nog niet."

It says that in a phone book from 1917 there was a Van Ceulebroeck factory which made wool-items and it was based in the rue de la concorde / eendrachtstraat Gent .

This may prove almost 100% that the piece of cloth is from Thomas Hermann his plane.