OTTO, Ernst (WH-Infanterie-Regiment 454)
	PERSONALIA   Name:  Otto, Ernst (WH-Infanterie-Regiment 454) Date of birth:  October 14th, 1914 (Hagen/Westphalia, Germany) Date of death:  June 11th, 1993 (Münster/North-Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) Nationality:  German       DEUTSCHES KREUZ IN GOLD Rank: Oberleutnant (1st Lieutenant) Unit: Kompaniechef Infanterie-Regiment 454 Awarded on: December 21st, 1941 Details: Date according to the verleihungsurkunde, Patzwall gives the awarding date of 19th December 1941.         EHRENBLATTSPANGE DES HEERES UND WAFFEN-SS Rank: Hauptmann (Captain) Unit: II. / Grenadier-Regiment 454 / 254.Infanterie-Division Awarded on: August 14th, 1942         RITTERKREUZ DES EISERNEN KREUZES Rank: Hauptmann (Captain) Unit: Führer II. / Grenadier-Regiment 454 Awarded on: February 10th, 1943         EISERNES KREUZ 1. KLASSE         EISERNES KREUZ 2. KLASSE         INFANTERIE-STURMABZEICHEN Details: Silver version.         MEDAILLE "WINTERSCHLACHT IM OSTEN 1941/42" (OSTMEDAILLE)         DIENSTAUSZEICHNUNG DER WEHRMACHT 4.KLASSE, 4 JAHRE         Provide alterations or additional information Picture source:   - Eugene Vasyagin, www.dkig.net Information source(s):   - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002 - Fellgiebel W.P., Elite of the Third Reich, The recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939-1945: A Reference, Helion & Company Limited, Solihull, 2003, ISBN 1-874622-46-9 - Patzwall K., Scherzer V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Geschichte und Inhaber Band II, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001, ISBN 3-931533-45-X - Verleihungsurkunde DKiG - www.dkig.net