A Stalingrad Survivor Document Grouping to the 12./Panzer-Regiment 24;
Iron Cross 2nd Class Award Certificate (issued to Obergefreiten (Corporal) Josef Cieslik, Reiterb - Regiment 2, at Div. St. Qu., dated December 22, 1941, signature of General Major Kurt Felde, 1st Kavallerie Division Commander in black ink, official stamp in black ink, printed in black ink on a white paper stock, 140 mm x 200 mm); Driver's Badge in Silver Award Certificate (issued to Obergefreiten (Corporal) Josef Cieslik, 12./Panzer-Regiment 24, at Div. St. Qu., dated July 20, 1943, signature of the Oberstleutant in pencil, official stamp in black ink, printed in Paris at the time of the division's re-fitting, in black ink on a thin off-white paper stock, 150 mm x 208 mm, lower right corner torn off); and Panzer Assault Badge in Silver Award Certificate (issued to Unteroffizier (Sergeant) Josef Cieslick (his named spelled incorrectly with an additional "c"), 12./Panzer-Regiment 24, at Rgt. Gef. St., dated May 3, 1944, signature of the Oberstleutnant in blue ink, official Panzer-Regiment 24 stamp in blue ink, printed in black ink on a thin off-white paper stock, 147 mm x 208 mm). Each with fold marks and lightly soiled. Very fine. Footnote: The 1st Kavallerie Division existed between December 1939 and November 1941. It was reformed into the 24th Panzer Division between December 1941 and February 1942. The 24th Panzer Division served on the Southern Russian Front (June 1942), were destroyed at Stalingrad with Cieslik a survivor (January 1943), was re-fitted in France (February-March 1943), participated in the Italian de-mobilization (August 1943), served on the Eastern Front - Nikopol, Krivoi Rog, Krasnograd with heavy losses (October 1943), at Jassy, Balta and Dnieper Bend (January-February 1944), at Jassy (April-August 1944), in Poland, Hungary and Slovakia (September 1944- January 1945), Rastenburg, East Prussia (January 1945), and in Schleswig-Holstein where they surrendered to British troops (April 1945).

