DOA Information question

[SCHUPO]

I recently picked up a DOA private purchase KS98 bayonet and I have a question. Is there a list, or another way, to identify Schutztruppe personnel? The bayonet I have is a Horster made early postwar style long KS98 with the standard In Remembrance of my service time etched on the obverse of a nickeled blade from the time of the Weimar Republic. These private purchase bayonets are often seen etched in this manner but this is the first I have seen one with a "Schutztruppe Deutsche-Ostafrika Korps" marking which appears on the spine. The reverse is also etched with the name of the owner, "Dieter Bueschgen" who I thought I would try to identify. The only clue is it appears Bueschgen might have had some attachment to the Jutland peninsula or the wartime sea battle with the British.

Thanks for looking.

 

[cptbob]

Maybe he was a crewman on the Konigsberg that fought as infantry with the schutztruppe after their ship was sunk in DOA. There were also some sailors from merchant vessels that served in the schutztruppe when they were stranded in DOA.

 

[cptbob]

This is from the book "Battle for the Bundu" by Charles Miller. It describes a relief mission to send supplies to the Konigsberg and the DOA Schutztruppe. It starts at the last paragraph of page 109. The merchant ship sent was crewed exclusively by sailors from South Jutland (page 110). The ship made it into a port in DOA with the Royal Navy on her heels and was sunk in the harbor. The crew served with the schutztruppe for the rest of the war. The fellow quoted on page 113, Nis Kock, was one of the crewmembers and wrote a book about his experience. If the owner of the bayonet was from Jutland, he may well have been a member of the crew. If you could get your hands on a copy of that book your soldier/sailor might be mentioned

 

[SCHUPO]

Excellent information that might well explain the blade etching. Thank you cptbob.