Germany, Heer. A Lot of Three Award Documents To Artillery Stabsgefreiter Kurt Klotzsche

The collection consists of: an Iron Cross 2nd Class award document (140x199mm, very fine); a Wound Badge in Black award document (140x201mm, very fine); an Eastern Front Medal award document (138x199mm, very fine). All documents state Klotzsche’s unit as the 11th Battery of Artillery Regiment 181. The Iron Cross 2nd Class award document is named to Obergefreiter (Corporal) Klotzsche. It is dated to January 11, 1943 and signed in blue ink by the commander of the 225th Infantry Division, Generalmajor Walther Risse (1892–1965), a recipient of the Knight’s Cross with Oak Leaves. The Wound Badge in Black award document is named to Stabsgefreiter (Staff Corporal) Klotzsche for being wounded once on January 8, 1944. It is dated to Balvi (eastern Latvia) on January 25, 1944 and signed in black ink by a Chief Medical Officer and Stabsarzt, the name is illegible. The Eastern Front Medal award document is named to Stabsgefreiter Klotzsche (misspelled Klotsche). He was awarded the decoration on July 20, 1942. The document is signed in blue ink by the commander of Artillery Regiment 181, an Oberstleutnant, the signature could be that of Harry Zühlke, a recipient of the German Cross in Gold.