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Name:  Gorn, Walter
Date of birth: September 24th, 1898 (Bieganin/Posen, Germany)
Date of death:  July 10th, 1968 (Rosenheim/Bavaria, Germany)
Nationality:  German
     
1939 SPANGE ZUM EISERNEN KREUZES 2ER KLASSE 1914
Awarded on: October 16th, 1939
 
     
EISERNES KREUZ 1. KLASSE
Awarded on: April 8th, 1941
 
     
RITTERKREUZ DES EISERNEN KREUZES
Rank: Major
Unit: Kommandeur I. / Schützen-Regiment 10 / 9.Panzer-Division / XXXX.Armee-Korps (motorisiert) / 12.Armee
Awarded on: April 20th, 1941
Details: 267th Award.
 
     
DEUTSCHES KREUZ IN GOLD
Rank: Major
Unit: 9.Panzer-Division
Awarded on: February 8th, 1942
Details: Award 64/13.
 
     
RITTERKREUZ MIT EICHENLAUB
Rank: Oberstleutnant
Unit: Kommandeur Kradschützen-Bataillon 59 / 9.Panzer-Division / 2.Armee / Heeresgruppe B
Awarded on: August 17th, 1942
Details: 113th Award.
 
     
RITTERKREUZ MIT EICHENLAUB UND SCHWERTERN
Rank: Oberst
Unit: Kommandeur Panzergrenadier-Regiment 10
Awarded on: June 8th, 1943
Details: 30th Award.
 
     
VOENEN ORDEN "ZA HRABROST" IV STEPEN, 1 KLAS
 
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Picture source:   - Willi Schumacher Collection
Information source(s):   - Die Ordensträger der Deutschen Wehrmacht (CD), VMD-Verlag GmbH, Osnabrück, 2002
- Kwasny A., Kwasny G., Die Eichenlaubträger 1940-1945 (CD), Deutsches Wehrkundearchiv, Lage-Waddenhausen, 2001
- 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
- Lexikon der Wehrmacht
- Ritterkreuztraeger 1939 - 1945
- Axis History Biographical Research via Axis History Forum
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