Gerd Becker

Rick, this date looks on the original like 12.05.1944 That would put it in line again, right? Gerd

You are right, Don. Looks like his twin

Rick, the first bar is exactly, what i was talking about. It shouldn?t be too difficoult to find such a simple bar, one should think. Gerd

Nice, Andreas . Is this the group, you ordered research for?

Ed, how do you research this group? Do you have any other info about this guy beside his name? best, Gerd

Rick, you say, the Red-Banner COULD be from the Afghanistan aera, but normally is this serialrange earlier, isn?t it? For example, i have these two numbers in my database: 454.346 26.10.1955 489.908 30.12.1956 So its probably more an exception to find one in this range, which was awarded for Afghanistan. It seems, that the Order of the Red-Banner was very rarely awarded after 1956, is that true? TIA Gerd

Hello Eric and welcome to this gentlemens-forum Its nice to see you here and i look forward to read your contributions. 90 % of what i know about Albanian Awards comes from your excellent article over at the WAF. best, Gerd

Thanks, Steen Ammentorp for the information provided. Your help is very much appreciated. best regards, Gerd

Rick, you said, your computer does not read alien languages, but i have to post this link, Sergey gave me: http://lenobl.testing.spb.ru/victory/event/monument Its a Monument of the Veterans of the Oranienbaum Bridgehead. This was at the front of the bridgehead, where he build up the observation posts. Thousands of soldiers lost their life in the defense of this bridgehead. Sergey said, he was there. Gerd

Ok, here is what i got so far from Sergey. I guess, he will provide the rest later. I didn?t edit it and will post it all together here and sort it later: The name: Raevsky Vladimir Korneevich Miliary rank: master sergeant Hold a position: company commander of 353 pioneer battalion of 196 Gatchina Red Banner division. recommend for a reward of Red Star orden. Birthday:1910 Nationality: Ukrainian In Red Army from 13/07/41 From july till october of 1942 he was at the Stalingrad front, from 01/01/1944 at Leningrad front. Was decorated: The medal of defense of Stalingrad The medal of defense of Leningrad Description of feat of arms: During 16 and 17 of February master sergeant Raevsky at opened place (20-30m from enemy), defended river crossing over Lochkina river under heavy snipers and mortars enemy fire. Gerd the second on is awarding document for bravery medal The name: Raevsky Vladimir Korneevich From 8/01/40 till 12/03/40 he fought in Finland From 12/04/40 till 17/04/40 took part in liberation of Bessarabia. From 10/06/42 till 18/10/42 he was at Stalingrad front From 22/04/43 till 7/09/43 He was at Leningrad front From 10/01/44 he was at Primorsky front Description of the feat of arms: From 13,14/01/44 after 50km march without sleeping and incessantly raised observation post at hill 105,7 "Bell tower" ( Kolokolnja by Russian) under heavy machine-gun, rifle and mortare enemy fire. 16/01/44 established a barrage mine near first line of defence. He always in time provide his company by rations. 11/03/44 he was awarded by orden of the Red Star 26/01/44 he was awarded by bravery medal Gerd

Gentlemen, thanks for the comments. @ Wild Card: Sorry, somehow i overread your post. Thanks for the award dates, i have added them to my database. You raise a very good point with the serial-numbers and i am curious to hear more opinions about his topic. Thanks again everyone. Gerd

Very nice, Chris

Thanks, Laurence. Its amazing, what one can find out, isn?t it? But only, if you know such an adamant and motivated translator like Rick Rick, Thanks so much again Gerd

I have changed the scans, Rick. These must be the right ones now. Gerd

Rick, here is the reverse of the Citation. Gerd

Yeah, Andreas, now you think, i lied to you It came this morning completely surprising. I didn?t even know, that it is finished Gerd

Andy, after my database, the first one (1.897.884) is from May/June 1945 and the second one (264996) is from September/October 1943. best, Gerd

Here are now the right reverse of the second citation

Second Citation lower half

Second citation upper half

Two more bits from the reverse of the first citation:

Unfortunately is this research in handwriting. Here is the lower half:

There were two citations with this research, but no personal file. Here is the upper half of the first citation:

Award Card Reverse

Yes, indeed. Thanks so much, my friend. You are my Hero Gerd