Hi fellow collectors,
managed to add this early, thin deumer para badge to my collection.
Comes with the original case for D1 Deumer flight badges.
Especially the case is damn tough to find on the market. For the para, i only have seen a handful of these early cases so i'm very happy to find an untouched set like this. Also interesting to see, the designation Fallschirmschütze. On deumers later cases an 'N' was added to the word.
As i bought this badge in auction, i was very lucky to get in touch with the family of the soldier. This badge was worn by soldier Paul Schulz, obergefreiter in 3/Fallschirm regiment 2 born in Mückeburg on 10/1/1915 and died on 10/5/1940 in Katwijk, on the first day of the German assault on the Netherlands, operation Fall Gelb.
Paul Schulz was a member of the 3rd Zug and the mission was to secure the airfield near Ockenburg. He and his fellow comrades were dropped in a wrong position at the beach of Hoek van Holland. They landed 16km's away from initial target ,the airfield Ockenburg in a forest called Staelduinsebos. Not knowing they landed in the wrong place, they dug in in the forest and came in range from the Dutch coastal artillery that defensed the port of Rotterdam. They took heavy fire from 'Fortress Hoek van Holland' and batteries on the island of Rozenberg. 7 soldiers from Paul Schulz' plane, including Paul, died that day in the forest. The 8 others were all wounded and were taken as a prisoner of war and locked in the fortress. Later, after the Dutch capitulation, the Germans took full control over the fortress.
Paul Schulz was buried near the church at Katwijk aan Zee but moved in 1948 to the big German cemetry in Ijsselsteyn where he is buried together with other fallen german paras from the may days 1940. I will visit his grave later and reunite it with his qualification badge, i'll update this thread with some pictures.
Apart from the cased para, they are also some anschluss medals, ek2, some uniform insignia and a cuffitle for an officer in Fallschirm jäger regiment 1. As Paul Schulz held the rank of obergefreiter in regiment 2, it's unclear for me who owned that cufftitle. The medals were consigned by the son of the sister of Paul Schulz and were passed to him in that box many years ago. So the cufftitle is still a mystery and i wonder how it could be related to the soldier, i guess there will never be an answer as the consignor could not help me with that.
I hope you can enjoy this badge just as i do,
Jelle Meul
managed to add this early, thin deumer para badge to my collection.
Comes with the original case for D1 Deumer flight badges.
Especially the case is damn tough to find on the market. For the para, i only have seen a handful of these early cases so i'm very happy to find an untouched set like this. Also interesting to see, the designation Fallschirmschütze. On deumers later cases an 'N' was added to the word.
As i bought this badge in auction, i was very lucky to get in touch with the family of the soldier. This badge was worn by soldier Paul Schulz, obergefreiter in 3/Fallschirm regiment 2 born in Mückeburg on 10/1/1915 and died on 10/5/1940 in Katwijk, on the first day of the German assault on the Netherlands, operation Fall Gelb.
Paul Schulz was a member of the 3rd Zug and the mission was to secure the airfield near Ockenburg. He and his fellow comrades were dropped in a wrong position at the beach of Hoek van Holland. They landed 16km's away from initial target ,the airfield Ockenburg in a forest called Staelduinsebos. Not knowing they landed in the wrong place, they dug in in the forest and came in range from the Dutch coastal artillery that defensed the port of Rotterdam. They took heavy fire from 'Fortress Hoek van Holland' and batteries on the island of Rozenberg. 7 soldiers from Paul Schulz' plane, including Paul, died that day in the forest. The 8 others were all wounded and were taken as a prisoner of war and locked in the fortress. Later, after the Dutch capitulation, the Germans took full control over the fortress.
Paul Schulz was buried near the church at Katwijk aan Zee but moved in 1948 to the big German cemetry in Ijsselsteyn where he is buried together with other fallen german paras from the may days 1940. I will visit his grave later and reunite it with his qualification badge, i'll update this thread with some pictures.
Apart from the cased para, they are also some anschluss medals, ek2, some uniform insignia and a cuffitle for an officer in Fallschirm jäger regiment 1. As Paul Schulz held the rank of obergefreiter in regiment 2, it's unclear for me who owned that cufftitle. The medals were consigned by the son of the sister of Paul Schulz and were passed to him in that box many years ago. So the cufftitle is still a mystery and i wonder how it could be related to the soldier, i guess there will never be an answer as the consignor could not help me with that.
I hope you can enjoy this badge just as i do,
Jelle Meul
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