Award document for Sanitäts-Unteroffizier Alfred Roil of the Sanitäts-Kompanie 30, 30. Infanterie-Division. Signed by Generalmajor Thomas-Emil von Wickede in September 1944. Document was folded before.
Thomas-Emil von Wickede (23 April 1893 – 23 June 1944) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the X Army Corps. He was a recipient of the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross. Wickede was killed on June 23, 1944, when an aircraft carrying him and generals Karl Eglseer, Eduard Dietl and Franz Rossi crashed in the vicinity of the small village of Rettenegg, Styria.
