MY 2 newest additions

[Daniel Cole]

I haven't collected much in the 3 reich arena, but a friend of mine (I dated his daughter once) father was on Scharnhorst. I'm collecting all of his awards from the Urkunde he has.

[mvm71]

Beautiful awards......thanks for showing them!

[chris clark]

very nice indeed.i bet your now going to say they came cased and hes got loads more.to start your collection in this way you have done very well as again they are especially the hsf imo

[skip]

Great badges, tasty HSF. What a good way to kick off a collection.

Skip

[Daniel Cole]

Actually the original awards went down with Scharnhorst. My friend has only the Urkunden and photos as memories. He made me copies (I hope to get the originals someday, since I know the 2 daughters have zero interest). He was awarded the EK 2, based on the Urkunde date it was most likely for the shelling of Spitzbergen. KVK 2X and Wehrmacht 4 year. The two main and interesting pieces are the Blockade badge and Fleet badge. The fleet badge came posthumious, the Blockade is date closer to the date that Tirpitz and Scharnhorst broke out to Norway. I was hoping it was for the channel dash, but his dad was at home in Wilhelmshaven getting married on Feb2. He would have had to make it back to Brest befor the Feb 13 deployment. Possible, but not certain.

So my quest is to collect originals of all his awards for a project I'm making on Scharnhorst. The fleet badge is near mint. Its shiney perfection doesn't over in the scan too well.

Cheers

[stogieman]

Nice idea and direction!

Hi Daniel, an excellent and honorable pursuit! I hope it all comes together for you!

[Hank C.]

Pix of the Urkunden?

Do you have pix of the Urkunden to post? Those would be interesting!

Hank

[Daniel Cole]

I finished my grouping to my friend's father who fell in Scharnhorst, Turned out nice,

[Airborne Nut]

That did turn out nice, very tastefully done!

-Shane

[PaulR]

Very nice set. His family should love it!!


Thanks
Paul

[Simon O.]

Any chance of seeing the urkunden?


I just picked up a docs and photo set to a crewman from the Scharnhorst myself.



Simon