A German Second World War group pertaining to Obergefreitter Karl Muller, 2nd Panzer Division, together with a most impressive Russian Front presentation photograph album

Germany, Iron Cross 1939, Second Class breast badge, silver with iron centre, unmarked; Wound Badge in Black, unmarked, with original pin, hook and hinge; together with a DRL sports badge in bronze with the associated stick-pin miniature; ands a RJA stick-pin miniature, good very fine (5) £500-£700

Sold with the the award document for the Iron Cross, dated Nicaea, Greece, 5 May 1941; award document for the Wound Badge, dated Beexkow, Russia, 17 December 1941; award booklet for the DRL sports award, dated 3 September 1937; award booklet for the RJA award, dated 25 August 1931; the recipient’s Wehrpass issued at Mannheium on 31 August 1937, very nicely filled out with 26 pages having some form of entry, including a photograph of the recipient in uniform, and giving details of the recipient receiving a splinter injury from a mortar round to his righ foot in Russia on 10 October 1941; and a fine original ‘presentation type’ photograph album, A4 size, black imitation crocodile skin cover with large silvered soldier at the top left and ‘Erinnerungen an meine Dienstzeit’ silver blocked at the base, the inside containing 90 b/w photographs depicting the recipient’s wartime service in the West, through Greece, and finally on the Russian front, with the final photographs showing the recipient in hospital on crutches and wearing his awards.