Alfred Rosendorf

• https://www.cousindetective.com/2017/05/my-growing-family-memorial-...
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209914353

Unteroffizer Alfred Rosendorf died WWI at St. Pierre, Somme, France -- the following year was the Battle of the Somme in the same location.

Alfred's death was reported in Berlin in Dec 1915 as one of the gefallen from the 3rd Compagnie of the Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 26. His final death certificate in Jun 1916 lists his official date of death as 29 November 1915, and his place of death as St. Pierre.

Alfred was in the 3rd Compagnie of the Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 26. of the 13. Infanterie-Brigade / 7. Infanterie-Division / IV. Armee-Korps / 1. Armee.

• 13. Infanterie Brigade
• Infanterie-Regiment Fürst Leopold von Anhalt-Dessau (1. Magdeburgisches) Nr. 26
• https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanterie-Regiment_%E2%80%9EF%C3%BCr...

On 29 Nov 1915 the German 1st army was around the city of St. Pierre in the Somme region. It doesn't look like there were any major battles at that time, both sides were dug in and stuck in a horrible trench warfare stalemate. Eight months later, St. Pierre would be engulfed in the major Battle of the Somme.

The division was mobilized as the 7th Infantry Division in August 1914 and sent to the west for the opening campaigns of the war. It fought in the siege of the Belgian fortifications at Liège, and then participated in the subsequent march into France and the Race to the Sea. The division then spent time in the trenches, and fought in the Battle of the Somme in 1916. During the German Spring Offensive of 1918, the division fought in the Battle of the Lys. It then fought in the defensive battles against the Allied offensives, including the Hundred Days Offensive and the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. The division was rated a first-class division by Allied intelligence.

• https://military.wikia.org/wiki/7th_Division_(German_Empire)