Wound Badge Black 1942 Gefreiter IR174 81.ID Northern Russia

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Hans Schuermann, Lance Corporal (Gefreiter) Infantry.
1) Wound Badge in Black, 8.4.42.
2) 7 pieces of field post and letters including a Russian POW camp post card, 1940-45.

He served 1942 with Infanterie-Regiment 174 of the 81.Infanterie-Division. 1940-41 active and based in France, 1942 active in Northern Russia (Staraja Russa and Leningrad). He got wounded on 26.2.42 at Karaschka and was hospitalized in Germany (Reserve-Lazarett Würzburg).