Award entry help?

[Diaspora]

1200 dpi was the highest my scanner would do...

[Diaspora]

Naxos: Thank you! Yes, I like this little grouping.

[naxos]

Naxos: Thank you! Yes, I like this little grouping.

That does look like the top edge of an EKI.

[Diaspora]

It should be possible to do some research. If this guy did recieve both EK2 and 1 on the same day, I would love to know what happened.

I also love his hospital entries. It would appear that he was shot through his left shoulder (?) 12.09.1941. Apart from that, he was hit by grenade schrapnel and shot additional 3 times. Still he remained in service untill the end of the war

[Brian R]

If both classes of the EK were awarded at the same time, wouldn't they be written in the solduch by the same person? The hand writing appears to be a bit different between the two EK entries.

[Diaspora]

One would think so... :P

[naxos]

If both classes of the EK were awarded at the same time, wouldn't they be written in the solduch by the same person? The hand writing appears to be a bit different between the two EK entries.

good point, Brian

[Panzer Rob]

That does look like the top edge of an EKI.

I agree!

Rob

[bratwurstdimsum]

My 2 cents worth:

I'm convinced (even though the entries are unconventional) that it is real (the ek1 entry). The 3 factors I considered are:

• If the ek1 entry is a post war add-on then where is the ekii award date? (see picture)
• If both are fabrications then why would the later award entries appear further down the page after the ek1 entries? (see picture)
• There is nothing unusual about 2 eks being awarded on the same day: if you look in the iron cross documents section of the main WAF website:
  

  Feldwebel Kinsch, Inf. Regt. 120 (mot) (60 Inf. (mot)) - awarded the EK 1, EK 2 and Silver Wound Badge on same day. Was severely wounded the previous month.

  http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/iron.../documents.htm

[Ian Jewison]

I don't have a problem with the EK I entry.

Of course sometimes the date is unknown when the entry is made in the Soldbuch, sometimes you can see a date is written with a different pen or different coloured ink later.

Additionally if both classes were awarded on the same day it might have been an immediate EK II with confirmation of the EK I later in orders or something similar, so they would not necessarily have been entered on the same day or by the same persion!

I would tend to go with the first option where the date was not known at the time of entry.

Again one of those that we might never know the answer!

/Ian