Brunswick Kriegsverdienstkreuz with a difference...

[Chris Boonzaier]

Was happy to pick this up.... not the usual one... and i assume quite rare.....

[Guest Rick Research]

Yes indeed. Though there was a different system for the combatant ones apparently linked either to calendar years or pages in a volume, I am now more convinced than ever that the neat little number at bottom left DOES indicate a continuous line by line "lost" Roll entry.

Because here's mine from 4 months later---2130 number higher:

This was the ONLY thing my guy got, though.

[Guest Rick Research]

BTW, State Minister (von) Wolff hand autographed every single blessed one of all types of these documents. Maybe that's why he was ennobled at some point during the war.

[Dave Danner]

There are at least two numbering systems. One starts D0000 and the other K0000. At the beginning of the awarding of the cross, the D numbers were used. They must have run out or changed at some point, as all later awards start with K. Where noted in the award files, I wrote down the number and date, but it was not always clear. If there was a roll or index, it is gone, as are at least half of the award file folders.