Ritterkreuz award ceremony for Hauptmann der Reserve Curt Ehle (Führer 1.Kompanie / Kradschützen-Bataillon 15 / 15.Panzer-Division) which were held on 1 August 1941 near Fort Capuzzo, Libya. The medal was presented by Generalmajor Walter Neumann-Silkow (right, Kommandeur 15. Panzer-Division). Ehle formally received the Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes on 27 July 1941. The medal was awarded for preventing a British breakthrough attempt that was ultimately intended to result in the recapture of Cyrenaica. The Ritterkreuz recommendation was submitted on 24 July 1941, while preliminary document and decoration were sent to the headquarters of Afrikakorps on 28 July 1941. The picture was taken by Bildberichter Weisgärber of PK (Propaganda-Kompanie) "Afrika".
Ritterkreuz award ceremony for Hauptmann der Reserve Curt Ehle (left, Führer 1.Kompanie / Kradschützen-Bataillon 15 / 15.Panzer-Division) which were held on 1 August 1941 near Fort Capuzzo, Libya. The medal was presented by Generalmajor Walter Neumann-Silkow (right, Kommandeur 15. Panzer-Division).
Hauptmann der Reserve Curt Ehle (Führer 1.Kompanie / Kradschützen-Bataillon 15 / 15.Panzer-Division) posing for the camera after the Ritterkreuz award ceremony which were held on 1 August 1941 near Fort Capuzzo, Libya. He is wearing M40 tropenhelm (pith helmet) and tropenuniform (tropical uniform). The tropical sun helmet, or Tropenhelm, was issued to all German troops serving in North Africa and was strongly influenced by the design of the British Wolseley helmet, commonly known as pith helmet.
Members of Kradschützen-Bataillon 15 / 15.Panzer-Division are lined up outside Fort Capuzzo during the Ritterkreuz award ceremony for Hauptmann der Reserve Curt Ehle (back to the camera, Führer 1.Kompanie / Kradschützen-Bataillon 15), 1 August 1941. The picture was taken by Kriegsberichter Valtingojer of PK (Propaganda-Kompanie) "Afrika".
Members of Kradschützen-Bataillon 15 / 15.Panzer-Division are lined up outside Fort Capuzzo during the Ritterkreuz award ceremony for Hauptmann der Reserve Curt Ehle (left, Führer 1.Kompanie / Kradschützen-Bataillon 15), 1 August 1941. The picture was taken by Kriegsberichter Valtingojer of PK (Propaganda-Kompanie) "Afrika".
Generalmajor Walter Neumann-Silkow (Kommandeur 15. Panzer-Division) inspecting the troops from Kradschützen-Bataillon 15 / 15.Panzer-Division during the Ritterkreuz award ceremony for Hauptmann der Reserve Curt Ehle (Führer 1.Kompanie / Kradschützen-Bataillon 15), which were held at Fort Capuzzo, Libya, on 1 August 1941. Neumann-Silkow is wearing the Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes on his neck, which he received on 5 August 1940 as Oberst and Kommandeur 8. Schützen-Brigade.
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