EK1 - Type? And interesting marks on backside.

[hlynur76]

Evening EK collectors

I have only these pictures and I´m wondering about this Ek1 in LDO case.

It´s unmarked and I think it is a Deumer with copper core and of corse not in correct case.

I just can´t make out the marking on the back: "36.I.D.M." or "36.J.D.M." Then we have "27.XII.41" and last is "P 36".
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[hlynur76]

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[StefanK.]

indeed a Deumer. I have no idea about the engraving.

greetings, Stefan

[sanya13]

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the core is brass ?
because Deumer's cross have iron core but copper coating the of early types

[Brian R]

That would be 36. Infanterie-Division (motorisiert). He won his EK1 on December 27, 1941.

[Hank C.]

Just a shot in the dark, not knowing unit histories, but maybe 36th Inf Div (motorized)? The date - 27 Dec '41. Then P36...Pak?

best
hank

[Brian R]

I was think P36 could have been some kind of reference to a place but I like Hank's guess. He was likely a Pak crewman.

[hlynur76]

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the core is brass ?
because Deumer's cross have iron core but copper coating the of early types

Hi. Sorry, I mean copper coating.

[hlynur76]

Thanks for comment guys.

I think Hank is right, the 36th infantry Division was formed in 1936 and was changed to motorized infantry division in autumn 1940.
36th tank destroyer battalion was part of 36th inf. Mot. Division. The 36th fought in Baltic state and Kalinin in autumn 1941.

Has this LDO case been married to this cross long time after the war by some collector? Or could it be a case period replacement