Germany, Heer. A Pair of Award Documents to Oberst Hans Messinger, German Cross in Gold Recipient GTRexclude and with a replacement black

and with a replacement black leather buffer pad covering the seam

where he enlisted in a local militia called the Watertown Rifles

Coastal Artillery breast eagle

the interior bearing a partially-legible districted stamp that appears indicate the Nuremberg region

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

Germany, Heer. A Pair of Award Documents to Oberst Hans Messinger, German Cross in Gold Recipient GTRexclude and with a replacement black(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