4 General Hospital and reverted to the ranks on August 7
with German documents (2) listing the Spanish awards
and in rare case of issue
he was discharged to Civil Employment on 4 October 1939
News was later received form a Berlin Casualty List that both had died from their wounds that day
A First War Prussian Iron Cross & Military Merit Medal Bar GTRexclude 4 General Hospital and revertedPrussia: Iron Cross 2nd Class (silver frame, with iron core, magnetic, maker marked "KO" (Knigliches Mnzamt Orden) on the ring, 43 mm); Imperial: Hindenburg Cross for Combatants (iron with a bronze coloured gilt, magnetic, maker marked "A. & S." (F. W. Assmann & Shne, Ldenscheid) and marked with stylized Assmann "A" on the reverse, 37. 5 mm); and Prussia: Military Merit Medal, 2nd Class (silver, 39. 2 mm). Mounted to a traditional trapezoid suspension