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An Award Document Group to the Cavalry Cossack Artillery

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An Award Document Group to the Cavalry Cossack Artillery

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An Award Document Group to the Cavalry Cossack Artillery

A page from a Soldbuch (pay book) (20.2x14.4cm) with entries from 1943 and 1944 and the signatures of two Battery Leaders.

A certificate (14x20cm) stating that Zeller is awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class, April 19, 1944, division command post (Div. Gef.Stand = Divisions-Gefechtsstand). Zeller holds the rank of Gefreiter (Lance Corporal) and serves in the Cavalry Cossack Artillery Detachment (KUBAN) II./55, part of the 1st Cossack Division. Kuban is a region in southern Russia at the Black Sea. The division fought in Croatia against partisans. The document shows a signature by Generalmajor and Division Commander Helmuth von Pannwitz (1898–1947, executed in Russia). He eventually made it to the rank of Generalleutnant and was a recipient of the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves.

The next document (14.1x20.1cm) identifies Zeller as Uffz. = Unteroffizier (Non-Commissioned Officer) and part of the 4th Company of the Cavalry Cossack Artillery Detachment (DON) II/55. It states that on November 3rd Zeller is awarded the Merit Badge for Members of the Eastern People 2nd Class in Silver. It is once more signed by Pannwitz. The reverse of the document repeats the information, but is in Russian rather than German.

A certificate of discharge (19.8x32.3cm) in both German and English. It gives more information regarding Zeller. He was born on September 27, 1924 in Ellwangen, district of Aalen, which is also his home address. He worked as a mechanical engineer. His medical record shows that he is fit for general service, and was discharged from the army on June 15, 1945.

Also included are; A photograph (6x6cm) of a soldier (Zeller?) standing behind a sign reading “command post Pannwitz”. A postcard (13.9x9.1cm) showing four Cossacks from Kuban with their horses. Their leader is D. F. Tyrin.

A German Red Cross list (19.9x29.3cm) of missing soldiers, comrades of Zeller. It carries a stamp that seems to date the list to the 1960s. Two men on the list have been marked. Zeller’s name and address are on the back of one of the two pages. He is not among the missing men, but it appears he might have given clues to the whereabouts of his former comrades.