Have you heard of a place called SCHMIEDE?

My cousin Trooper 23403701 Alexander Cunningham Corstorphine was killed in a traffic accident on 14 March 1958  while serving with BAOR.  His death record shows SCHIEMDE as the place but I can't find on a map.  Any help would be appreciated

Was the Death Record issued by the Germans or British?

If British. I suspect spelling mistake?

Alan

Last name:                              CORSTORPHINE
First name(s)                           Alexander Cunningham
Regiment:                               RTR
Rank:                                     Tpr
Service Army Service Number: 23403701
Date of Birth:                          05/05/1936
Age:                                       21
Date of Death:                        14/03/1958
Included on the Armed Forces Memorial* Yes
Included on Roll of Honour Yes

https://www.search-armed-forces-memorial-roll-of-honour.service.gov.uk/serviceperson/7363949c-7273-4904-ac4c-069f2612e571
(*The Armed Forces Memorial is a national memorial in the United Kingdom, dedicated to the 16,000 servicemen and women of the British Armed Forces killed on duty or through terrorist action since after the Second World War.)

In 1958 7 RTR was stationed  in Detmold

A nearby village east of Detmold and near the old Federal Route 1 was Schieder -Schwalenberg (formed in 1970 from the rural communes of  Schieder, Brakelsiek, Schwalenberg, Lothe, Ruensiek, Wöbbel, Siekholz and Kreienberg).  It is a Kur-Ort (minor spa town) with around 8,500 residents. in a land area of 60 sq kms/23 sq miles.   (The NL Forces were at Blomberg and airfield shown was part of their asset!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schieder-Schwalenberg








https://www.schieder-schwalenberg.de/    in German
https://www.schieder-schwalenberg.de/B%C3%BCrger-und-Service/Stadtinfo/Die-Ortsteile


Stadt Schieder-Schwalenberg
Der Bürgermeister
Domäne 3
32816 Schieder-Schwalenberg

Ref above vis-a-vis 7 RTR in Detmold.

7 RTR was subsumed by/amalgamated into  4 RTR in 1959,
4 RTR moved from Fallingbostel to Hohne during 1959

Thks from Alan..

Tpr Corstorphine: death recorded on the Armed Forces Memorial *
(*The Armed Forces Memorial is a national memorial in the United Kingdom, dedicated to the 16,000 servicemen and women of the British Armed Forces killed on duty or through terrorist action since after the Second World War.)

Tpr Corstorphine RTR

Thinking on - the depths of Army procedure!

Any accidental death especially from Road Traffic Incident (not called RTA anymore!) would elicit:

Board of Inquiry - to exam and record all circumstances

Board of Adjustment - to settle the financial and property account of the deceased.

Both are legal records and the actual papers have to be held for a minimum of 50 years - usually at the Army Documentation Record Office of the deceased, (1958 - 2009) RAC/RTR Manning and Records?
however;
Unit Records include a Registry Book where each page resembles an AF A2 (Report of a Board of Inquiry)
and a manuscript copy of the actual AF A2, the Convening Order (Part 1 Order) and a Precis of the findings and results are retained for 100 years after the last entry in the book.
Assume 7 RTR record book was last used in 1959 BEFORE amalgamation - there has to be a further record of circumstances of the death.
Just a few thoughts on what we did BEFORE photocopies.