Death card to Johannes Graf Buquoy , Seekadett on the battleship "Scharnhorst", KIA 26.12.1943
He was decorated Flotten-Kriegsabzeichen (High Seas Fleet Badge).
 
Rare death card to a Seekadett coming from a noble dynasty and who was KIA at the age of 18.
 
The Scharnhorst was the lead ship of her class, which included her sister ship "Gneisenau". The ship was built at the Kriegsmarinewerft dockyard in Wilhelmshaven; she was laid down on 15 June 1935 and launched a year and four months later on 3 October 1936. In early 1943, Scharnhorst joined the Bismarck-class battleship Tirpitz in Norway to interdict Allied convoys to the Soviet Union. Scharnhorst and several destroyers sortied from Norway to attack a convoy but British naval patrols intercepted the German force. During the Battle of the North Cape (26 December 1943), the Royal Navy battleship HMS Duke of York and her escorts sank Scharnhorst. Only 36 men survived, out of a crew of 1,968.
 
 
condition: good