Narvikschild group?

[Filip]

Ekii

[Filip]

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[Filip]

4 years

[Filip]

Linienschiff "Schlesien" years

[Filip]

HJ years...

Wonder if he survived the April 10th / 40 attack.

[Hank C.]

Another great little grouping, congratulations!

best
Hank

[Simon O.]

The preliminary EKII doc is very interesting. Could you do me a little favour and see if the paper's watermarked and if so what it says? The reason i ask is that i have a couple of prelim docs for other medals from Narvik and the paper is watermarked.

[Filip]

Thanks Hank

Simon, the paper is not watermarked , but it's quiet thin . The 2 lines of underlining dots almost puncture it through.

Filip

[Brian R]

This is a great group! It is interesting that the prelim. EK2 doc was awarded in Narvik and the formal award was made in Oslo by Admiral Boehm

Simon's formal EK2 and Filip's prelim. EK2 are signed by the same man on the same date. I wonder why Filip's formal doc was made later in Oslo (and I wonder how much later than 6/28 was this award doc actually produced)

[Filip]

[QUOTE=Brian R;2204758]This is a great group! It is interesting that the prelim. EK2 doc was awarded in Narvik and the formal award was made in Oslo by Admiral Boehm

I think that his IK II might have beed awarded post-mortem.
The Destroyer badge he got dated October 1940, but that was for his Anton Schmitt duty which was already sunk by then. There is nothing else beyond that date and this fact makes me think that he did not survive April the 10th attack by the British.

[Simon O.]

[quote=Filip;2207379]

This is a great group! It is interesting that the prelim. EK2 doc was awarded in Narvik and the formal award was made in Oslo by Admiral Boehm

I think that his IK II might have beed awarded post-mortem.
The Destroyer badge he got dated October 1940, but that was for his Anton Schmitt duty which was already sunk by then. There is nothing else beyond that date and this fact makes me think that he did not survive April the 10th attack by the British.

No, he survived alright. Could be as simply as not having enough formal docs to go around (Narvik was a pretty remote place to get to back then and we're only talking 3 weeks after the end of the fighting). So he get's this prelim, signed by Hans-Joachim Gadow. Then gets the formal doc from MOK Norwegen later on after the ad-hoc gruppe Narvik had been disbanded. We already know that around the same time they were giving out typewritten WB docs.

Here's another Narvik EKII signed by Boehm to compare with.

[Filip]

[QUOTE=Simon orchard;2207559]

No, he survived alright.

You know, Simon, you were right. Not only had he survived , but lived a long life until he passed away in 2005!
Thanks to the WAF member, Dirk, we were able to locate his daughter who was kind enough to send us this book written by Willi Weber himself, which is a part of my doc group right now.

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