HenkWillem

He had an outstanding war record to have received those awards as an ordinary Private and Yefreiter. The fact that he was attending Officer Candidate School in 1946 suggests you should probably request his personnel file...

maybe he never graduated and remained in the ranks... but he might have been serving as an officer into the late 1950s or beyond. He was young enough to have caught up rapidly with the normal age groups for officer promotion.

Interesting, are personnel files also avaliable in the Russian archives?

And the final documents. This are all the awards that are awarded to that brigade. He is number 10 from page 4 (photo 2)

The citation:

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He has got the medal as a brave and decisive scout in the period from 14 januari 45.

On the breacktrough of the german defense he gave the staff on the right time the right info and he saved a wounded scout from the battlefield.

By the capture of the city Gadom he was part of a exploring group on foot and he met a group of Germans. He began to shoot at them and killed approximately 8 germans and saved 3 wounded soldiers from the battlefield.

Yesterday I've recieved my first research documents for this medal:

This medal is awarded to Pavel Jakovlevitsj Korovin.

His regestrationcard:

TRANSLATION:

1. lastname: Korovin

2. Name and surnames: Pavel Jakovlevitsj

3. Military rank: Corporal

4. sex: Male

5. year of birth: 1924

6. place of birth: Oblast Koersk, rayon Besedinski, village Korovino

7. Party Membership (from what year): Not in a party

8. Education: Lower

9. Nationality: Russian

10. Date that he joined the Red Army: from march 1943

11. Placement (name of the section) and fuction at the time of the grant: 23rd Gloechovsk-Retsjitsa-Order of Soevorov-Red Banier-Tankbrigade ? Motordriver-scout

12. Current location and function: Tankschool Syzran ? cadet

13. Home address of the decorated: Oblast Koersk, rayon Besedinski, village Korovino

14: List of all decorations:

medal for bravery

number: 2105611

Document nr. 16

Order of the 23rd Tankbrigade nr. 01/N of 5 februari 1945

Order of the Red Star

number: 1273583

temporary certificate nr. E-244851

Order of the 23rd Tankbrigade nr. 08/N of 7 augustus 1944

Order of glory 3rd Class

number 525413

temporary certificaat nr. I-506075

Order of the 9e Tankcorps nr. 0111/N of 26 mei 1945

medal for the Liberation of Warschau

document: A-252049

Decreet of 9 juni 1945

medal of the occupation of Berlin

document: A-496751

Decreet of 9 juni 1945

medal for the victory of Germany

document: S-366389

Decreet of 9 mei 1945

Francois, you are great, the best of the best.

Thank you very, very, very much.

Thank you very much Francois. This is great!

Dear Francois, Bear, Rick Research,

I almost not dare to ask you it, but can you also find the names in the following documents:

The first with 27 commanders from 7 march 1812:

back:

The second with 6 knights from 20 february 1813:

I would be most grateful if you could find some time to decode the names.

wow, what a magnificent collection.

@ Rick Research

About what book are you talking? I have searched on the internet for the book from Stalins, but I couldn't find anything.

Bear, if you ever going to sell you docs, please keep me informed.

Francois, I allready said Thank you on the OMSA forum, but I want to thank you again.

Everybody else, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. This is awesome. I never could figured it out by my self.

Last week I have bought this original old document:

It concerns the appointment of 5 Knights in the Imperial order of the Reunion: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordre_de_la_R%C3%A9union

Is here somebody who can read it? I have "decode" a part, but not the whole text. See the attachment for my work.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

tekst_document_orde_reunie.doc

yeah, I know. I have bought it because I allready have an original example and it is good reference material.

Here is a photo of the 39-45 star that I had bought as a copy.

I have The Kings Medal of the London City Council (see attachements) with 1919 -20 bar and a name on the side: A. Vermeulen (sounds like a Dutch name). There is no serialnumber, only the name.

The photo's are not of good quality (a little bit dark, but is was evening when I made them.):

http://i40.tinypic.com/25ew8ih.jpg

http://i43.tinypic.com/14j6nt0.jpg

I have completely no experience with Britisch medals. My main part of my collection is Dutch and a little bit Soviet/Russian odm's.

I allready got some info:

http://www.mernick.org.uk//attendance/medals/m_George.htm

And the British 1911 Census records: http://www.1911census.co.uk/ But there I have found only 2 Vermeulen's, and no A. Vermeulen.

Can somebody tell me more about how to research this?

This is the first time I see US manufectured pieces.

The only one's I have seen where the Belgium versions: http://www.eekelers-centini.be/catalog/ind...109d3e9e3b406f4

Thank you very much! I learned a lot.

this one is a French U.N.I.F.I.L. issue

And this French version have a two-pointed pin. Does all the French UN-medals have that?

Thanks for the photo's . The differences are clearly visible.

Thank you Darrell.

Typically the European Made Medals have a "Flat" obverse (i.e. the Globe) and American Made Medals have a more rounded "convex" globe. I'm sure there are other slight modifications. I have also noticed the European made medals have ribbons of a courser material (woolen type) than the US made.

The attached Website / spreadsheet is a decent summary of all medals to date:

http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/list/list.pdf

Thanks for the pdf file. If al that missions have its own medal, then the official UN medal site isn't complete.

And if I look the the list in this topic, I'm very sure that the site isn't compleet. I miss the UNAMID and UNMIT medals. And I only looked to page 4 of this topic.

Another question, I saw the great scans of the different Korea medals. From where did they came? It looks like a very interesting book/publication to my.

I just can guess that the first bar has been done long before the second one. The Dunkirk medal is an unofficial one, so to be placed after the Soviet one (1985), and the Russian one (1995) probably came even later...

Cheers.

Ch.

so he wears them in the order that the got issued to him?

there seems to be a number of manufacturers for these and they seem to fall into two types, the American fabrication with thick rim edge to the rear and a European manufactur with a thin rim edge to the rear, also slight differences in the ribbon ring mount.

Do you have exemples of this?

Darrell - It might have been printed earlier, since I don't actively collect UN medals I have no idea how many were issued up to the mid 90s. The official UN website however does have a list peacekeeping medals and issue dates -

http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/medals

Does the official UN site contains all the medals?

This is the French medal of Dunkirk (M?daille de Dunkerque). An unoffcial one issued by the city of Dunkirk.

Cheers.

Ch.

Why is he wearing a French medal "between" 2 Russian one's?

I have found the article about the K9-coins.

It is a Dutch article, but I wil tell you now the main things of the text.

In 2007 there were some NATO medals awarded to some dutch guard dogs that guarded the airfield of Kandahar. But the airforce-leaders didn't like it (the found that it goes to far). And they prohibited (is this the good word?) it.

That is why the designed special coins for the guard dogs.

The coins will be awarded to the owners/bosses/trainers/companions of the dogs. This goes with a little ceremony. And they also get a certificate/document with the design of the NATO medals on the name of the dog.

There are 2 versions of the coin, a gold-coulored and silver-coulored one. The first one is for collectors and the second one is the version that will be awarded.

If you are interested in the dutch article, just send me a message.

I hope you understand my englisch, it is not so good ;)

what a wonderfull collection.