Original German WWII ID dogtag - St.Kp.Jnf.Ers.Btl.65 Nr.70

Description

This dogtag was sold by the relatives of Wermacht veteran from Kiel after he passed away. He kept it his whole life, but for whatever reason his relatives decided to part with it.
Jnf.Ers.Btl 65
stands for
Infanterie-Ersatz-Bataillon 65
(
65th Reserve Infantry Battalion
).
http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/InfErsBat/InfErsBat65-R.htm
The battalion was set up on August 26, 1939 in
Delmenhorst
(Wehrkreis X).
On October 1, 1942, the battalion was split into two parts: 65th Reserve Infantry Battalion and 65th Infantry Training Battalion.
On November 7, 1942 both of them were renamed as "Grenadier" battalions.
During the war, soldiers from this battalion did their part by reinforcing many other units, but in the last months of the war the whole battalion
was
directly deployed to the frontline
as part of the
180th Infantry Division
and saw action in
Netherlands
, among other places.