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Rare to find German soldiers aluminium cup trench art 1944 bayonet,grenade design with Riga on the handle. The cup still retains its original colour does have a dent in the side no holes that i can see the design was done in the field by one of the German soldiers in the pocket it has been very nicely cleaned and is perfect for display or any collection. The cup has been recovered from Kurland Pocket the battlefield of 1944-1945 in Latvia. A lovely piece of iconic battle history from one of the most famous pockets on the Eastern Front.

The Kurland Pocket refers to the Red Army's blockade or isolation of Axis forces on the Courland Peninsula from July 1944 through May 1945.The pocket was created during the Red Army's Baltic Strategic Offensive Operation, when forces of the 1st Baltic Front reached the Baltic Sea near Memel during its lesser Memel Offensive Operation phases. This action isolated the German Army Group North from the rest of the German forces between Tukums and Liepāja in Latvia. Renamed Heeresgruppe Kurland on 25 January 1945 the Army Group remained isolated until the end of the war. When they were ordered to surrender to the Soviet command on 8 May, they were in "blackout" and did not get the official order before 10 May, two days after the capitulation of Germany. It was one of the last German groups to surrender in Europe. Below German troops in the Kurland Pocket.

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