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) Mentioned in Dispatches on Victory

A Mint Iron Cross First Class by Wilhelm Deumer - With iron core

showing him in the rank of SS-Standartenführer

sustaining a gun shot wound to his left arm and shoulder

Between the summer of 1943 and the end of the war Heberlein worked as a radio operator in the field

Saxony-Coburg-Gotha, Duchy. An Art And Science Decoration In Gold Hold ) Mentioned in Dispatches on(Ehrenzeichen fr Kunst und Wissenschaft). Instituted in 1837. A Gold Maltese Cross, with a green enamelled wreath between the arms, the obverse centre presents the bust of Duke Ernst II looking left, bordered by the inscription ERNST HERZOG ZU SACHSEN COBURG GOTHA, the reverse presents the inscription DEM VERDIENSTE surrounded by a wreath of oak leaves, measuring 33. 53 mm (w) x 33. 39 mm (h), on loop for suspension from period original ribbon, and in