Germany, Heer. A Pair of Award Documents to Oberst Hans Messinger, German Cross in Gold Recipient GTRexclude where he enlisted in a

where he enlisted in a local militia called the Watertown Rifles

and with a replacement black leather buffer pad covering the seam

It demonstrates only minor

published by the Ministry of War at Rio de Janeiro in 1944

Coastal Artillery breast eagle

Germany, Heer. A Pair of Award Documents to Oberst Hans Messinger, German Cross in Gold Recipient GTRexclude where he enlisted in a(Heer Urkundengruppe fr einen Deutsches Kreuz in Gold Trger). A pair of award documents to later Oberst Hans Messinger, a decorated First World War serviceman and recipient of the German Cross in Gold (20 May 1944), the latter achieved while serving with artillery units during the Second World War, including: 1. One for a War Merit Cross II Class with Swords, awarded to Messinger a Major of Schwerer Artillerie Ersatz Abteilung 97, dated 24 December