Help Identifying Unit table top award. A.R. 71 1939

[tmca05]

Identification of table top award to unit A.R. 71

I just picked up this Award or Christmas gift from an estate sale. Does anybody know the exact unit and the history of such unit during December 1939.

The award is marked Weihnachten im Felde 1939, II. (mot.) A.R. 71

I’m assuming that it means winter over in the field 1939, 2nd Regiment, 71 Artillery Reserve unit.

I may have the unit identification wrong, but I am guessing that this was a Christmas gift to all unit members who were serving on the front (Poland?) at the time.

I can not find any history of that unit, does anyone know? And am I reading this wrong?

Faithful Service Cross is just there to show scale.

Thanks, Dave

[Gerdan]

http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/...rtReg/AR71.htm


Gerdan

[Admiraal]

Its either 2. Batterie or 2. Abteilung (Bataillon) from Artillerie-Regiment 71.
If it was an infanterie unit then it was Bataillon, but since Artillerie units use the Roman numbers also for their batteries.. i don't dare to choose.

[Johnny R]

II Abteilung (Battalion) of AR 71 was part of Army Group C. The unit was positioned on the West Wall facing France in a defensive assignment after Poland during the "Phoney War" in the Winter of 39-40. The picture shows the Fortifications along the wall where the unit passed the Winter. Very nice item.

[tmca05]

Thanks you both very much, now I can put a little history behind this relic.

Dave

[cdz]

Christmas of 1939 award

I came across one of these a few years back,and have it in my collection.Thanks for the info,I assumed Poland...