Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Early Postwar Service Pass to Stabsobersteuermann Kurt Bauer, Decorated Kriegsmarine Veteran Auction Archive Empire Awards: Iron Merit Cross

Empire Awards: Iron Merit Cross (in silvered iron

Under the most trying conditions he has always completed the task in hand and his work in general is exceptional

each perforated at the top with a hole through which is looped an original leather drawstring

Nickel-silver fixtures are riveted to the tip

both situated on a pebbled background

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Early Postwar Service Pass to Stabsobersteuermann Kurt Bauer, Decorated Kriegsmarine Veteran Auction Archive Empire Awards: Iron Merit Cross(Kriegsmarine Bescheinigung). An interesting immediate postwar Kriegsmarine service pass, constructed of off white paper with black ink, filled with handwritten entries issued to STBS. OB. STRM. KURT BAUER (Stabsobersteuerman) on 22 November 1945, indicating that Bauer was assigned to paygroup 11 from 1 December 1943, and was the recipient of the Memel Medal, the War Merit Cross II Class with Swords (30 January 1943), the Minesweeper War Badge (23