Loss/grave cards - Need help with handwriting in German (incl sütterlin script)

Guillaume d'Orange

Guillaume d'Orange

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Hello fellow members,

Happy New Year and best wishes to you !

I need some help to decipher the handwriting on the following loss/grave cards.
For those who don't know, they can be accessed through the genealogy website "Ancestry" (paid service, but free trial).
The source is : Kartei der Verlust- und Grabmeldungen gefallener deutscher Soldaten 1939-1945 (-1948), Bundesarchiv B 563-2 Kartei. Berlin, Deutschland: Deutsches Bundesarchiv.

I would like to understand the section "Tag..., Art des Verlustes".
I hope some of our native German speakers can help me.

Thanks in advance !

G
 
#1
Schädel Bruch, Unfall => skull fracture, accident
#2
Schädelbruch, O(ber) Armbruch, U(nter) Schenkelbruch, durch Unfall => skull fracture, upper arm fracture, lower leg fracture, due to accident
#3
Sepsis nach ???? Marschblase am Li(nken) Fuß => Sepsis (blood poisoning) after ???? marching bladder on the left foot
The ???? might be "periarteritis" => periarteritis nodosa (PAN)
#4
Mediastinitis u(nd) Zahnabszess, Lung(en) und Herzkl(appen)entzg (entzündung) => Mediastenitis, tooth abcess, pneumonia, heart valvulitis

hope this helps.
 
Amberg said:
#1
Schädel Bruch, Unfall => skull fracture, accident
#2
Schädelbruch, O(ber) Armbruch, U(nter) Schenkelbruch, durch Unfall => skull fracture, upper arm fracture, lower leg fracture, due to accident
#3
Sepsis nach ???? Marschblase am Li(nken) Fuß => Sepsis (blood poisoning) after ???? marching bladder on the left foot
The ???? might be "periarteritis" => periarteritis nodosa (PAN)
#4
Mediastinitis u(nd) Zahnabszess, Lung(en) und Herzkl(appen)entzg (entzündung) => Mediastenitis, tooth abcess, pneumonia, heart valvulitis

hope this helps.
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Thank you very much Amberg.
That’s exactly what I needed.
I suspect the last two died of bacterial infections following gun wounds (to the foot and to the jaw). They died at the « Lazarett » in Nîmes, I don’t see a battalion medic letting a scratch to the foot or a tooth abcess going bad (even if they did not have antibiotics) if it wasn’t already bad.
 
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