A Brave O.Gefr's Collection

[bratwurstdimsum]

In the spirit of Angel's storytelling I will begin with this Obergefreiter Wichard Scholz's collection.

This guy served in the Winter war of 1941 in Infantry Regiment 18, the same regiment as depicted in the famous book "Moscow Tram Stop" by Heinrich Haape. however Scholz's regiment, regiment 2, earned his stripes defending Rzhev rather than the outlying towns that was the meat of the story of Haape's Regiment 3.

Firstly, Scholz earned the Infantry Attack Badge...nice....

[bratwurstdimsum]

After repeated acts of bravery he earned both grades of iron crosses,

the EK1 and infsturm badge both have hand engravings of his name and where he fought to win the honors.

[bratwurstdimsum]

He was awarded the Close Combat Clasp in bronze after repeated attacks and defences at close quarters, I count 25 on the citation... (p.s. this citation is a repro I typed myself based on the original who belongs to someone else now...if you are that person, lucky you and do you want to sell ? )

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His luck ran out on the 22/09/1942 when he was injured although he only got his certificate and badge a year later! He also received his eastern front medal.

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And now the badges, firstly the box which splits into two levels, one for the badges and the lower area for the certificates.

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And now the badges, again the CCC badge itself is not Scholz's but a genuine "filler" until the person who has it along with the citation will be nice enough to do a trade

[Chet Sowersby]

That is very, very, nice!

Chet

[bratwurstdimsum]

Thanks Chet!

One more, the insciprtion on the ek1...

The term Hohe 200, refers to a hill on Map reference 200 in the Rzhev (Rschew) area. on the above citation the battle for this hill started on the 4th of August and went on until the 28th August!! (this final date is not shown on the above picture) well worth a CCC in Bronze!

[Mooyman]

Very nice!!!!

Regards,

Ricardo.

[Rik]

Very nice set you have there, hope you can find that person and make a trade to complete this set.

[vic007]

Very nice collection
thank you for sharing

[Adrian Stevenson]

Superb group. I like that a lot. I hope that you are sucessful in re-uniting the CCC with the rest.

Cheers, Ade.

[von ropen]

Congratulations... you got a treasure...

[Mark Mac]

What a great group to have!

Not only with the owners information, but the connection to hill 200. That had to be one hell of a place to have been.

[bratwurstdimsum]

Mark,

Do you or anybody here have any facts of that battle? Was there a "battle of hill 200" as such or has history lost the detail in the cauldron that was Rzhev ?