Remi Schrijnen 1.

£65.00

SS Sturm-brigade ‘Langemarck’. (Belgian Legion Flanders.)

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Attractive photo signed front and back. Comes with unused envelope with Remi’s details ink stamped on it.

During the Battle of Narva on 3 March 1944, he single-handedly destroyed eleven enemy tanks with a 7.5 cm Pak 40 He was found unconscious and close to death the following day and brought to Swinemünde and eventually Berlin, where he received the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross and a congratulatory telegram from VNV leader Hendrik Elias. However, the only Wehrmacht Sondermeldung about Schrijnen’s action only claimed 7 destroyed tanks!!