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06-23-2012 11:02 PM
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Re: Share your Panzer Related Award Documents (Verleihungsurkunde)
I also have this set to if not the highest decorated Private of the 1939 Polish Campaign then at least one of the highest decorated Private soldiers in the campaign. A member of Schützen Rgt 12 of 4 Panzer Division..
https://www.warrelics.eu/forum/photo...rouping-26067/
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Re: Share your Panzer Related Award Documents (Verleihungsurkunde)
Man, you have some very nice groupings that continue to awe. That PAB doc w/ the Panzer Counts signature is killer too! And dont worry about the Soldbuch/wehrpass postings......they go along with the award docs, and I (and Im sure others) fully appreciate being able to see them. Thank you again.
I'm really liking the Hermann Fischer group. The signatures in that group couldnt have been any better IMO.
Thats awesome that you were able to find the owner of the Soldbuch, and receive scans too. That has to be an interesting one!
The 4th Panzer Div grouping is outstanding as well. To be able to prove that a Private was awarded both grades of the EK during the Polish Campaign is certainly an extreme rarity!! Never seen such a grouping before to be honest. I look forward to try and read the newspaper articles.
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Re: Share your Panzer Related Award Documents (Verleihungsurkunde)
Guys i'm now back from holiday and glad to see that this thread has got going thanks to Bill and Kevin , i'll post some of my citations in the next few days. Some excellent pieces of paperwork have been posted ,great examples of how much historical information can be learned from paperwork colecting !!
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A Panzer related Soldbuch from the Waffen-SS this time. It is a Zweitschrift issue but was issued in 1941 so saw more of the war then his original issue!
Willi Gerner was born on 31st August 1912 in Juterborg. He is listed in his Soldbuch as being approx 5'10" (176cm) tall, a protestant and unmarried. At the time of this issue of his SB SS-Inf Rgt 4 (mot.) was undergoing training prior to being employed as rear area security for Army Group North. Early in 1942 parts of SS-Inf Rgt 4 (mot.) were reorganised & reclassified as SS Rgt 'Langemarck' and was incorporated into Das Reich, with Willi Gerner serving with the HQ staff of Langemarck's II Btl. Gerner was eventually reassigned to the HQ staff of II/Pz Rgt 'Das Reich' in 1943 with which he spent the remainder of his war.
In April 1944 SS-Rottenfuhrer Gerner was issued his 98K rifle - his 3rd such issue of his war service - and just 2 days before D-Day he received a full uniform issue. On April 4th 1944 Gerner received the KvK 2 Klasse mit Schwertern, this during a period that combined training with frequent anti-partisan operations in the region of Montaubaun in the south of France. Willi Gerner had already received the Ost Medal on 14th January 1943.
Involved in the fighting in Normandy, Gerner was killed in the vicinity of Le Cambry on 29th July 1944 during the retreat from the Cherbourg peninsula by shots to the head and neck - as indicated by the unusual entry at the top of Pg 1.
Willi Gerner now rests in the La Cambe Cemetery in Block 47, Grave 195.
The Soldbuch has a number of interesting signatures:
Page 21 & 31 - SS-Obersturmfuhrer Karl-Heinz Boska (RK)
Page 30 - SS-Untersturmführer Franz Stadler (II/SS-Pz.Rgt 2 Adjutant in 1943)
Page 31 - SS-Obersturmführer Hans Pavelka (Deutsche Kreuz in Gold & KIA 16th Jul 1943)
Some rare signaturtes there Hucks , Boska was a notoriously difficult one to get even on a post war photo !!
The gates of hell were opened and we accepted the invitation to enter" 26/880 Lance Sgt, Edward Dyke. 26th Bn Northumberland Fusiliers , ( 3rd Tyneside Irish )
1st July 1916
Thought shall be the harder , heart the keener,
Courage the greater as our strength faileth.
Here lies our leader ,in the dust of his greatness.
Who leaves him now , be damned forever.
We who are old now shall not leave this Battle,
But lie at his feet , in the dust with our leader
House Carles at the Battle of Hastings
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Re: Share your Panzer Related Award Documents (Verleihungsurkunde)
EK I Document to Fritz Herzig whilst serving with SS Panzer Aufk Abt 5 of the Wiking Divison , the document is signed by the then Divisional Commander Felix Steiner. Steiner went on to become a Swords to the Knights Cross winner and one of the the most well known and respected Senior commanders of the Waffen SS , famous for his command of the III (Germ) SS Panzer Korps.
Fritz Herzig went on to win the DKiG whilst Adjutant of SS Panzer Brigade " Gross " in Estonia and Latvia in 1944 and then the Ritterkreuz in April 1945 whilst an SS Sturmbannfuhrer and Commander of the Tiger Abt schwere SS Panzer Abt 503 , this award was for the combat actions of his unit during the fighting at the Altdamm Bridgehead and in Berlin.
The gates of hell were opened and we accepted the invitation to enter" 26/880 Lance Sgt, Edward Dyke. 26th Bn Northumberland Fusiliers , ( 3rd Tyneside Irish )
1st July 1916
Thought shall be the harder , heart the keener,
Courage the greater as our strength faileth.
Here lies our leader ,in the dust of his greatness.
Who leaves him now , be damned forever.
We who are old now shall not leave this Battle,
But lie at his feet , in the dust with our leader
House Carles at the Battle of Hastings
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