KURLAND Cufftitle 

The “Kurland” cufftitle was the fourth and final cufftitle in a series of four campaign award cufftitles and was introduced on March 12th 1945, for award to personnel who were encircled and successful held back the Russians in the Courland peninsula region of Latvia. The cufftitle was considered a military combat decoration and as such was bestowed with a corresponding award possession document. Bestowal of the award was opened to all personnel of Army Group Courland that were besieged in the Courland pocket. Criteria for award of the cufftitle include a minimum of three months service or three battle engagements in the pocket or only one engagement if wounded during the action.

Machine woven silver/grey cotton construction cufftitle features machine woven black Latin script “Kurland” to the center flanked on the left side by the shield of the Grand Master’s of the Order of the Teutonic Knight’s and on the right side by a stylized profile of an elks head which was the coat-of-arms of Mitau (Jelgava) the principal city and historic capital of the Courland region. Both the top and bottom edges of the cufftitle are trimmed with dual horizontally machine woven black border stripes with evenly spaced dots between the stripes. The opened reverse of the cufftitle is an invert mirror image of the obverse and has the typical loose horizontal black threads.

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