arived today

[douglynn]

nice old salty book looks like he took a few hits bullets and mortar.and am i right did he get his i a b in ukraine[gorodok]and poland [dubroka]and was it common to change black wound to silver with out extra stamp.as allways thanks for your help

[douglynn]

scan2

[douglynn]

scan3

[douglynn]

scan4

[douglynn]

scan days combat

[douglynn]

looks like black to silver???

[luftmannbooks]

soldbuch

Hi Doug, nice book, the 9 dates I believe would count towards the award of the close combat badge of which 15 were required. I don't think it was unusual for the wounds badge to be up-graded,in this case it seems it was, but Iam sure I will be corrected if wrong.
steven.

[dphillipsd]

Hey Doug, nice grouping.

Although I havent seen this before the entry looks good to me, has an authorising signature and stamp stating his position.

[douglynn]

thanks guys

[Angel Farré]

For what I see is not uppgrading, but awarding the correct grade, I think your soldier was wounded seriousñy and traveled across several hospitals and last decided that the wound was serious enough to receive the Silver grade instead the initial black he received.

Interesting piece, for further research can you put a bigger scan of the award entry?

Angel

[douglynn]

on page 21 it looks like same persons sig.as on page 22 the iab award.and what is the entry for???on page 21???

[douglynn]

awards page again.will see if i can enlarge

[Eric JB]

Hi Dough,

Nothing wrong with your entries.

Inhaber hat bereits Fronturlaubpaket erhalten,
im Felde den 11.12.1942.

Entry says that he received his Front Furlough Packet.

yours
Eric-Jan Bakker

[Eric JB]

Sorry for misstyping, must be "Fronturlauberpaket"

EJB.

[douglynn]

thanks eric can you please tell me what is fronturlauberpaket.and what was it given for was leave of some kind.[gift] [free travel or something] please tell me thanks doug