Red Army Identification for a Guards Officer (issued in 1955) for a WW2 Veteran of Latvian decent.  He fought from 1941 till 1943 as a rifleman in a Sapper Unit, injured in combat in 1942, he was later discharged due to injury.  He won the awards: Victory over Germany and the Military Merit Medal.  Nice little set for a Latvian fighter in WW2.   

An original made Estonian Red Army Guards Badge  These are extremely hard to find. The former factory of Roman Tavast, a pupil of  the well known Russian jeweler – Faberge. Therefore, all insignia made for RKKA in Estonia are famous for their quality. End of war or early postwar made badge.  The screwback is marked: Roman Tavast – Tallinn . The badge is made of copper and covered with gilding.  Story behind Roman Tavast  Roman Tavast was born in Tallinn in 1895. He was born into a fisherman’s family. Tavast graduated from Niklasen’s 4-year private school and studied engraving as well as goldsmithing in E. Treder’s workshop. He had also worked for the goldsmith Julius Lossman, learned the art of gilding, and later completed courses at an art school. He graduated from evening high school to get a general education. Tavast then started his independent activities after the Estonian War of Independence. In 1920, Roman Tavast had provided himself with a one-seater goldsmith’s workbench, and in 1921, a wire rolling machine. In 1923, at the age of 28, he opened his own independent company for the production of badges, medals and other honors and awards – VMT Roman Tavast. Following the occupation of Estonia and the creation of the Estonian SSR in 1940, the factory and the residential building with the store were nationalized in 1940. Karl Johanson was appointed as the new director of the factory. Roman Tavast worked as a technical manager at the factory until June 1941, when he was deported to the Vorkuta camp system in the Russian North. Roman Tavast was sentenced to death and shot in 1942 in Sosva, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Soviet Union

Nice WW1 Set to a Machine Gunner  Emil Krengel born in Mettmann in 1889  Won the Iron Cross Second class in Flanders  Served with:  2nd Machine Gun Company, Inf Regiment 141 (35th Div)  The 35th Division (35. Division) was a unit of the Prussian/German Army.[1] It was formed on April 1, 1890, and was headquartered initially in Graudenz (now Grudziądz, Poland) and from 1912 in Thorn (now Toruń, Poland).[2] The division was subordinated in peacetime to the XVII Army Corps (XVII. Armeekorps).[3] The division was disbanded in 1919 during the demobilization of the German Army after World War I. The division was recruited primarily in the southern part of West Prussia, and included a relatively high percentage of Poles. Combat chronicle The 35th Infantry Division began World War I on the Eastern Front. It fought in the battles of Gumbinnen and Tannenberg, and in the First Battle of the Masurian Lakes. In 1915, it participated in the Gorlice-Tarnów Offensive. In October 1915, it was transferred to the Western Front. In 1916, it fought in the Battle of the Somme. In 1917, it participated in the Battle of Arras and the Battle of Passchendaele. In 1918, the division fought against various Allied offensives and counteroffensives, including the Hundred Days Offensive. Allied intelligence rated the division as a mediocre division and considered it second class by 1918, mainly due to the losses it had suffered in the war’s earlier battles. Battle Calendar: 1915 01/31/1915 – 02/02/1915: Battle of Humin (Battle of Humin and Wola-Szydlowiecka) 03/05/1915 – 03/16/1915: Battle of Stolniki 07/13/1915 – 07/17/1915: breakthrough battle near Przasnysz 07/13/1915 – 07/14/1915: breakthrough at Przasnysz 07/15/1915 – 07/16/1915: Breakthrough of the Bogate Position July 18, 1915 – July 22, 1915: Pursuit battles to the lower Narew 07/23/1915 – 08/03/1915: Battle of the Narew 07/23/1915 – 07/24/1915: Narew crossing between Pultusk and Roshan 08/04/1915 – 08/07/1915: Battle of Orz-Bach (Goworowo) (Battle of Wonsewo) 08/08/1915 – 08/10/1915: Battle of Ostrow 08/11/1915 – 08/12/1915: Battle of Chizhev-Zambrov 08/13/1915 – 08/18/1915: Pursuit battles on the upper Narew and Nurzec (persecution to the Biala) 08/19/1915 – 08/25/1915: Battle of Bielsk 08/26/1915 – 09/05/1915: Pursuit battles at the Swisloc and at the Naumka-Werecia 09/06/1915 – 09/07/1915: Battle of Volkowyszk 09/08/1915 – 09/12/1915: Battle of the Zelwianka and the Njemen 09/12/1915 – 09/17/1915: Battle of the Szczara and Jeinia 09/17/1915 – 09/26/1915: Pursuit fights in the Lithuanian swamps September 27, 1915 – October 17, 1915: Departure and transport to the west western front October 19, 1915 – June 23, 1916: Position battles between the Somme and the Oise 1916 06/24/1916 – 11/26/1916: Battle of the Somme November 27, 1916 – March 15, 1917: Position battles on the Somme 1917 March 16, 1917 – April 10, 1917: Fighting in front of the Siegfried Front 04/02/1917 – 05/20/1917: Spring battle near Arras 1917 May 21, 1917 – May 28, 1917: Trench battles in Flanders and Artois 05/27/1917 – 06/13/1917: Battle of Flanders (Part 1: Battle for the Wyschaete bend and preparatory battles for the summer battle of 1917 in Flanders) June 7, 1917: Battle of Wyschaete and Messines 06/15/1917 – 06/20/1917: Fighting in front of the Siegfried Front 06/24/1917 – 10/08/1917: Fighting in the Siegfried Line 10/20/1917 – 12/03/1917: Autumn Battle 1917 in Flanders 12/04/1917 – 03/30/1918: trench warfare in Flanders in the winter of 1917/18 1918 03/31/1918 – 05/06/1918: Trench battles in Flanders and Artois April 9, 1918 – April 18, 1918: Battle of Armentières 07.05.1918 – 23.08.1918: trench warfare in Flanders 08/24/1918 – 09/02/1918: Battle of Monchy-Bapaume 09/03/1918 – 09/26/1918: Fighting in front of the Siegfried Front 1918 09/27/1918 – 10/08/1918: defensive battle between Cambrai and St. Quentin 10/09/1918 – 11/04/1918: Fighting before and in the Hermann Position 10/24/1918 – 11/04/1918: Battle of Valenciennes 11/05/1918 – 11/11/1918: Retreat fighting in front of the Antwerp-Maas position from November 12, 1918: evacuation of the occupied territory and march home    

Soldbuch to Krankenträger / Gefreiter Rolf Schmidt  From Leipzig, Germany, he was born into aa protestant family and in his civilian life he was a sales man.  Soldbuch issues in October of 1942, after a period of training he was send to the Grenadier Regiment 187 of the 87th Infanterie Division.  He was wounded with Shrapnel in Witebsk in Belarus, and was sent via hospital train to another Hospital in Prag.  His injury must have been very bad, as it is entered in as 31b (shrapnel) and 26 – which is nerve and mental illness. Maybe Shell shock?  He spent the rest of the war in a Wehrmacht Hospital in Vlašim (German: Wlaschim) is a town in Benešov District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic – where he sat out till the end of the war and he was discharged on the 24.04.1945.  Schmidt had a FN 6.35 (FN Baby Browning)  and was given multiple times a Führerpaket (usually with some food/wine and small goodies to boost moral.  Also included are: Armband is hand made. Both of his Wound Badges are included in the lot.  His Dog Tag is complete with drawstring and is matching to the Soldbuch as per Page 1.  Wehrmacht Driving license with nice photo Red Cross ID – issued on the 25th of April 1945 (one day after he was dismissed)  Three Photographs Comments:  This is a nice set to a German Medic, wounded in combat. This was not a put together lot and came as is. Not easy to find such little trinkets of history today with all the medals, tag, armband etc.