GERMAN WWII GRAF SPEE SAILORS DOCUMENTS.

An interesting small group of documents to a shoemaker ‘Franz Golgat’, also spelt on other documents ‘Golgert’. Large A4 size citation for the 1st Oktober 1938 Medal, dated ‘16th November 1939’. The same size document for the Memellands Medal, dated ‘26th October 1939’. In both the two last documents his naming is spelt as ‘Golgat’. The 1934 issued 1914-18 Honour Cross Citation to Franz Golgert whilst a member of the liner ship Schleswig-Holstein. Accompanying the three citations are a small quantity, 34 small format images of his life in the Kriegsmarine, accompanied by approximately 10 postcard sized photographs, some from WWI, which indicates he was probably an older member of the services by being awarded the 1934 War Honour Cross. We have researched his name on the crew list for the Graf Spee as of the date of the River Plate in December 1939 and cannot find his name, it is possible that he left the ship before the Battle of the River Plate, which is unusual as the citations are dated both October and November 1939 whilst the ship was on its South Atlantic mission.

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