Present:
Lieutenant of Landwehr OERTEL, as Officer of the Court.
Acting-Sergeant-Major SOMMERBURG, as Clerk of the Court.
PROVISEUX, _March 2nd, 1915_.
There appeared for examination as witness Deputy-Officer Ebert, who,
after the importance of the oath had been pointed out to him, made the
following statement:
As to Person: My name is Eduard Kurt Ebert, Deputy-Officer,
Acting-Sergeant-Major, 11th Company, Grenadier Regiment No. 101; 33
years old; Protestant.
As to Case: On August 23rd, 1914, I came back early, towards 9 o'clock,
from a patrol which I had undertaken on the previous evening from
before Château Reux to Dinant in company with Lieutenant Schurig and
some men of the 9th and 12th Companies of my regiment, which lay
in readiness about half an hour's distance from Dinant. On the way
back from Dinant to the regiment we found at the end of the town a
non-commissioned officer and six men of Rifle Regiment No. 108 lying
dead in the road. Some of the dead showed wounds on the face and
chest, which Lieutenant Schurig, as well as myself, recognised without
doubt as having been caused by small shot.
On the evening of the same day, probably about 5 p.m., I stood with
the 12th Company of Grenadier Regiment No. 101 in the street on the
bank of the Meuse below the place where the bridge was being built. All
at once a heavy fire was opened on us from all sides, especially from
above. A man of the 12th Company, who stood beside me, received a shot
in the stock of the rifle. I removed the missile myself from the wood;
it was a small round bullet. The firing then died down, and I was put
across the Meuse. After I had crossed over, I received the order from
Lieutenant and Adjutant Stark to guard the civilian prisoners who had
been rounded up there, and later the military prisoners also. I then
saw how men of my guard handed water to the captive women and children
and gave them chocolate. I myself bandaged a wounded French sergeant.
Read over, approved, signed.
Signed: EDUARD KURT EBERT.
The witness Ebert was thereupon sworn.
Signed: OERTEL, Lieutenant of Reserve and Officer of the Court.
Signed: SOMMERBURG, Acting-Sergeant-Major
and Clerk of the Military Court.