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Hauptmann Dr Heinrich (Heinz) Wolf Born: 27 Oct 1914 Died: 13 Mar 2011 Highest rank reached: Major (Luftwaffe) / Oberst in Bundeswehr Kampfgruppe I. K/88 - Legion Condor II/KG-27 5./KG-27 FFS C 1 II/KG-27 Staffelkapitän 4./KG-27 Luftkriegschule Stab/Luftflotte 4 Ia in Stab/Luftflotte 4 Generalstab der Luftwaffe Stab 15.Luftwaffe-Felddivision Kdr Feld-Ers.Btl.d.Luftflotte 1 Lw.-Verbindungs-Offz. to Pz.AOK 1. Ic Stab/I.Fl.Korps Kdr Feld-Ers.Btl.1(L) DKiG: 17 Aug 1942 Ehrenpokal: 08 Aug 1941 (Source: Luftwaffe Officer Career Summaries by Henry L. deZeng IV and Douglas G. Stankey)

Hauptmann Albert Blumensaat Born: 02 Apr 1902 Died: 31 Mar 1944 - Illness Highest rank reached: Oberstleutnant Staffelkapitän 10.(N)/JG-131 Staffelkapitän 10.(N)/JG-2 Kdr IV.(NJ)/JG-2 Kdr I/JG-53 Gruppenleiter JFS-2 Kdr Erg.JGr. Nerseburg Kdr Erg.Gr/JG-77 Kdr III/JG-52 Kommodore der Ergänzungsjagdgruppen Kdr II/Fliegerverbindungsgeschwader 2 Kdr NJG-102 Credited with 2 victories (Source: Luftwaffe Officer Career Summaries by Henry L. deZeng IV and Douglas G. Stankey)

Oberleutnant Wolfrat Bauer Born: 14 Aug 1918 Died: 04/05 Jan 1943 - KIA Stab III/NJG-1 Staffelkapitän 7./NJG-1 Credited with 5 victories

Leutnant (MA) Herwig Geber Born: 14 Mar 1914 Highest rank reached: Oberleutnant (MA) Batterie-Chef Malo Terminus - Marine-Artillerie-Abteilung 244 Batterie-Chef Batterie Prinz Heinrich - Marine-Artillerie-Abteilung 244 Batterie-Chef Batterie Prinz Heinrich - Marine-Artillerie-Abteilung 530 Batterie-Chef Küsten-Artillerie Untergruppe 'MIchaelsturm'

Leutnant zur See Gerhard Schwippert Born: 23 Nov 1919 Died: 03 Aug 1943 Highest rank reached: Oberleutnant zur See Zerstörer Z-23 1WO U-706

Oberleutnant zur See Wilhelm Ritter von Georg Born: 05 Jul 1916 Zerstörer Z-23 Kdr Schnellboot S-69 Kdr Schnellboot S-45 Kdr Schnellboot S-48

Oberleutnant zur See Joachim Metzner Born: 28 Jul 1920 7.Schiffsstammabteilung Linienschiff Schlesien Marineschule Mürwik Hafenabteilung Calais Marinenachr.Schule Mürwik Zerstörer Z-4 Richard Beitzen Zerstörer Z-29 FTB-Lehrgang AOB-Lehrgang Torpedoboot T-14 Ausbilder für AOC-Lehrgdnge bei der SchiffsArt.Schule Saßnitz Torpedoboot T-35

Korvettenkapitän Dietrich Hoffmann Born: 17 Jun 1912 Died: 02 Jun 2003 Wachoffizier Leichten Kreuzer Emden Wachoffizier Leichten Kreuzer Leipzig Referent beim Oberkommando der Marine 1.U-Lehrdivision, Pillau Kommandanten-Lehrgang 24.U-Flottille, Memel Kdr U-594 I.Offizier Zerstörer Z-30 Kdr Zerstörer Z-30

Kapitän zur See Heinz Peters Born: 08 Nov 1905 Died: 27 Sept 1992 Zerstörer Z-7 Hermann Schoemann Zerstörer Z-25 6.Zerstörer-Flottille DKiG: 06 Aug 1942

Photo taken from Bundesarchiv PERS 6/301735

Major Kurt Rudolf August Breckerbaum Born: 21 Aug 1896 Died: 03 Jan 1940 (Appendicitis) Kp.Chef 15./Infanterie-Rgt 15 Kommandantur (St.) Kassel Gen.Kdo XI.Armeekorps

Leutnant Hans Hultzsch Born: 15 Jan 1891 - born in Bangalore Died: 27 May 1967 Highest rank reached: Hauptmann Wehrbezirkskommando Trier I (Wehrmeldeamt Birkenfeld) Zugwach-Abteilung zbV 505 Zugwach-Abteilung 509 Dr Eugen Hultzsch (Father of Hans Hultzsch) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Hultzsch

Oberstleutnant Peter-Paul Petersen Born: 04 May 1893 Died: 20 Apr 1945 - killed during an air raid Highest rank reached: Generalmajor (possibly posthumous) Kdr Panzerabwehr-Abt 16 Kdr Panzerjäger-Abt 16 kommandiert zum Stab des Armeenachschubführers 530 kommandiert zum Stab des Kraftwagentransportregiments 605 Höherer Offizier der Kraftfahrparktruppe beim General der Kraftfahrwesens stellvertretenden Wahrnehmung der Geschäfte als Chef des Heereskraftfahrwesens (Source: AHF members Dieter Z & Askropp)

Hauptmann Friedrich Stenkhoff Born: 01 Apr 1900 Died: 03 Apr 1945 - KIA NE Germany Hihest rank reached: Oberst Pz.Abw.Abt 40 Kp-Chef 1./Pz.Abw.Abt 16 Kdr Panzerabwehr-Abteilung 169 (Possibly Kdr Pz.Rgt 2) Kdr Pz.Rgt 15

He appears to have died in 1974.

Here is the card file from Bundesarchiv (PERS 6/301613) for Gerd von Brauchitsch.

Did this come direct from the family to you without any middlemen? If not then it is highly likely that the actual awards were added to the paperwork to increase the profit for the seller which happens a lot. Nice little set of paperwork though with the EK citation signed by Dr Friedrich Altrichter who died in a Russia PoW camp in 1948/49. Part of his card file in Bundesarchiv (PERS 6/299316) For others, here is Thurau's casualty card. Unfortunately, it looks like he is not listed in the Volksbund so his body has never been recovered and is currently not listed or updated in their database. This is a section of the German situation map for the HG Nord frontline just three days before he died with 58.Infanterie-Division bottom left (courtesy of Lexikon der Wehrmacht). .

Ernst-Günther Wilhelm Karl von Schuckmann Born: 06 May 1899 Died: 08 Sept 1970 Highest rank reached: Oberstleutnant (Regierungsrat 1957) Adjutant des Wehrbezirks Paderborn Adjutant des Artillerieersatzregiments 6 Adjutant der Kommandantur von Graudenz Adjutant der 306. Infanteriedivision Adjutant des Generalkommandos z.b.V. Mieth kommandiert zum Stab des LXI. Reservekorps Adjutant des LXI. Reservekorps Adjutant des XXXIII. Armeekorps (Information via AHF thread)

Hauptmann Friedrich-Wilhelm von Wedelstaedt Born: 14 April 1895 Died: 15 March 1973 Highest rank reached: Oberst Gruppenleiter I, Feldzeuginspektion (OKH/AHA/Fz In) Chef des Stabes Feldzeuginspektion (OKH/AHA/Fz In) DKiS: 10 Oct 1944 (Information courtesy of Dave Danner in a AHF thread)

One item I was able to tick off the collecting bucket list this year was acquiring a prelim RK citation. I would have been happy for an example to anyone, but to have obtained the citation for a significant General was more than I expected. The RK & Gold Wound Badge citations are for eventual General der Artillerie Erich Marcks. In 1940 he was tasked with drawing up a draft proposal for what would become Operation Barbarossa and during Op Barbarossa he commanded 101.leichte Infanterie-Division which was part of 17.Armee in Heeresgruppe Süd. On 26th June 1941 he was severely wounded which resulted in him having his left leg amputated. It was during this period that he was awarded the Knights Cross. It was awarded for the performance of his division during the opening days of Barbarossa, especially the crossing of the San river northeast of Przemysl and the subsequent battle against a Soviet bunker line at Medyka. During the period of his recovery, he commanded first 337.Infanterie-Division and then LXXXVII.Armeekorps which were both based in France. On 1st August 1943 he was placed in command of LXXXIV.Armeekorps that was responsible for what would become the D-Day sector. Marcks was one of the few senior officers who believed that an invasion in Normandy was a possibility and upon the Allies landing ordered a counterattack which ultimately failed. Here he is in the film The Longest Day, played by the German actor Richard Münch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6YnMaNTx30 On 12th June 1944 while touring the front northwest of Saint-Lô, his staff car came under attack from Allied aircraft and Marcks was hit by a 20mm shell. Despite his driver dragging him to a ditch, the injury was too severe and Marcks died of blood loss. He was posthumously awarded the Knights Cross with Oakleaves and now lies buried in the cemetery at Marigny - Block 2, Row 38, Grave 1478. The following documents and clippings are from his files in the Bundesarchiv (PERS 6/300187 & PERS 6/269)

164,000+ views of this outstanding thread cannot be wrong. The Index has now been upated:

I'm never surprised what people do and do not collect. I've seen people buy groups of citations, keep the Ostmedaille citation and then sell the remainder and others who buy Soldbücher just to keep the front cover with the photo and sell the coverless Soldbuch.

Photo input from Dave Danner

In this French notice it mentions the death of a Captain Charles Trott who died in a French PoW camp in Verdun on 8th February 1806. He was from Woodbridge in Suffolk but the period French notice mentions that he was a Captain in the 'Scottish Marching Battalion' (unless it has been mistranslated). Any idea what unit that could be and where his service records might reside?

Hauptmann Alfred Bischowski Born: 17 Jan 1915 Stab/KG 53 Staffelkapitän 10./KG 53 Staffelkapitän 9./KG 53 Staffelkapitän 8./KG 4 (Biography source: Luftwaffe Officer Career Summaries by Henry L. deZeng IV and Douglas G. Stankey)