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2nd Page of Nahkampftage ListingComment
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With a new addition to my collection I thought that I'd bring this thread back to the top after its hibernation of 3 years!
Zweitschrift issue soldbuch (issued January 1944) to Uffz Georg Pape who served in Infantry/Grenadier Rgt 78 of 26 Infantry Division. At the end of 1944/beginning of 1945 Pape was posted to the Wehrertüchtigungslagern system which were a sort of military fitness camps for the HJ... http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=3064
Pape was posted to the WE-Lager: HJ-Gebiet 9 (Westfahlen Nord) - WEL - Augustdorf bei Sennelager.Comment
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During his front line service George Pape was awarded the following:
Ost Medal - July 1942
Black Wound Badge - August 1943
Infantry Assault Badge - September 1943
EK II - September 1943
EK I - May 1944
Nahkampfspange 1 Stufe - May 1944
Nahkampfspange 2 Stufe - September 1944Comment
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And an added bonus is the Nahkampftage slips are still present showing the 30 days he was awarded for the Bronze & Silver awards...Comment
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And the final slip of paper is his posting details as a trainer in the WE-Lager system at Augustdorf...Comment
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Ir 78
congratulations for this really interresting item, as I' m working on it's brother regiment, the Gren. Rgt 77, I can tell that it's really difficult to find the listing of the 26 I.D. kampftagen
http://infanterie-regiment77.org/
REGARDS
PIERREComment
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Thanks for bringing this thread back up to the top Hucks216!
I joined in 2009, so I didn't even see this amazing thread. All of the soldbuchs and relating documents are incredibly great and have a ton of history behind them.
Even though my only CCC soldbuch is nowhere near the sophistication of all of yours, I still love it. And being 14, it was a big step for me to buy this book. (bought from Rose Heppler)
Peter Kelch-(wehrmacht soldbuch) Peter Kelch served with the Division Fusilier Battalion of the 88th Infantry Division. He served with the unit in the Tscherkassy Pocket/battle. Later he served with the 212th Division Fusilier Battalion, of the 212th Volksgrenadier Division. During the battle of the Bulge, he was serving with a leave company in Denmark, vs being with the 212th VGD in the Battle of the Bulge. He was shot (31a wound entry) on 25-5-1943. There is also an attached paper for recording weapons he was trained with. It states that he was trained in panzer close combat, pistol, rifle, machine gun, and hand grenades.
He received the following awards:
The Black Wound Badge (4-10-43)
Iron Cross 2nd Class (15-1-44)
Infantry Assault Badge (2-5-44)
The Close Combat Badge in Bronze (4-5-44), my favorite award
Peter died 14 days after the war ended, and was buried in the Heidelberg-Freidhof Cemetery, at only 21 years old. When I emailed some people in the town he was buried in, I got a response containing pictures of his grave.
Not as impressive as yours, but I still really like it,
Swayne MartinComment
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more picsComment
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awards/graveComment
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Perfect Soldbuecher and groupings.
I love to look at them - thanks for sharing!
Especially the Vetter-Soldbuch is great because he lived in the city where I was born and a lot of my relatives (grandfather, granduncles) served in that regiment!
Perfect!Comment
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A recent addition to the collection and another CCCiS related soldbucher & citation grouping. A big coincidence is that the soldier shares the same surname as the one in the first CCCiS soldbuch I received a couple of weeks ago (see my posts above).
Franz Pape served with Infantry/Grenadier Rgt 2 of the 11 Infantry Division for most of the war.Comment
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But after being wounded in 1944 he spent the last few months of the war fighting with Grenadier Rgt 418 of the 281 Infantery Division, fighting on the Oder Front.
Uffz Franz Pape won the following awards:
25.04.1942 - Infantry Assault Badge in Silver
15.08.1942 - Russian Front Medal
23.03.1944 - Iron Cross 2nd Class
03.05.1944 - Wound Badge in Black
01.05.1944 - Close Combat Clasp in Bronze
01.06.1944 - Wound Badge in Silver
18.08.1944 - Close Combat Clasp in SilverComment
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Unfortunately the Eastern Front & CCCiS citations are missing but all the others are present. Interestingly the Silver Wound Badge citation has a Close Combat Clasp link as it is signed by Major Franz Dutter who was a rare dual winner of the Knights Cross & Close Combat Clasp In Gold.Comment
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Wow, very nice and interesting 11th ID Soldbuch wiith award docs you have there. He was with the 11th ID and Grenadier Regiment 2 a long time.Comment
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