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I have this recipient's ( born 1902 ) Order of the Red Banner ( for long service ; awarded 15-1-45 ) and a copy of his Award Record Card and have been advised that a citation will probably be unfindable due to the NKVD affiliation I am interested in obtaining more information about him but am limited by not being able to read Russian and not being acquainted with Russian information resources A google search brought up a reference to a publication by three authors ( MOSIAKIN, I , ALESHIN , AN and KABANOV VV )in the 1990s relating to the 1937-8 period but the publication date seems rather late for a person born in 1902 to have been one of the authors Can anyone kindly assist with any additional information and/ or references ?

The Order of the Red Banner #201253 has turned out to have been awarded to ALESHIN, Andrei Nikolaevitch , a Major in the NKVD , on 15-1-1945 Apparently a long service award

Thank you Jeff for the further information and picture Would you ( or anyone else ) know the award criteria , period of issue , whether still awarded / issued ?

Thank you for the information Bill

Re SHS Medal to Henry Evans ( mentioned above ) Apparently this did have CMR in naming on an early auction appearance However as per advice received on BMF, he is not on the SA 1853 Medal Roll not are service papers for him findable My feeling is that all SHS Medals to English sounding names that do not appear on the SA 1853 Medal Roll for the CMR should be name checked against any surviving muster lists etc for the CMR for the 185o-2 period that might be findable

Thank you for this information re the ORBL Chechaco1

Thanks for responding 1812. One can but live in hope that the information will turn up eventually

Thank you for the information chechaco1

is it possible to identify recipients of Soviet orders from their serial numbers from any easily accessible resources that do not involve going into Archives? I do not speak or read Russian which cuts out my accessing resources in the Russian language . I am interested in identifying the recipients of the following : Order of the Red Banner : # 136619 " " " " " : #201253 " " " " " of Labour : #293473 " " " Patriotic war 1st Class : 294533 " " Glory 3rd Class : # 115895 Honoured Railroad Empleyee: # 114962 Can any member possibly assist please

In reply to Chechaco1: yes .However , the specimen you illustrate seems to lack the suspension

Difficult to exactly make out but there could be a flourish above the final " G" in the naming of the Keiberg Medal similar to that above the first " G" in the naming of the Roots medal ( both illustrated above ) Any opinions on this from those with better eyesight than mine. Any similarities in naming between any of the known named medals would indicate that some of the medals went to the same engraver ( possibly at different times as awards were made sporadically )

Unfortunately I do not speak Russian so am unable to access sources in this language Regarding the early Certificates of Award for the ORB of the RSFSR: The two different types that I have are different to that illustrated by Japan X. Is it known exactly how many different types there were ? As surviving certificates are apparently scarcer than surviving badges and the total number of certificates was split over a number of different types , I would imagine that some particular types could be quite rare

Thank you Rusty for the additional extensive information posted Why I am endeavouring to obtain illustrations and other new info is to test the validity of previous information and assumptions about this medal A few notes : (1) H .Ferara Medal illustrated in a history of Genadendal by Balie (2) Henry Evans medal: neither Mitchell or Everson in their articles mention the " CMR " which is in the naming of the specimen auctioned by DNW The medal was previously auctioned by Debenhams in 1898 and Glendinnings in 1933 (3) Dunning RE : apparently a die cracked specimen .Probably self awarded . Re Museum did not respond to request for photo due to lockdown (4) Skead RN : if medal exists (? Museum Africa have not responded to request for confirmation ; and possibly confusion with his RHS Medal ) almost certainly spuriously named and not entitled (5) I suspect that any supposed recipients outside of CMR and local levies were not entitled (6) Lister Green did serve with CMR but I am slightly surprised to see an officer recipient I put a query on BMF as to whether any extant service record of his might record the SHS Medal but nothing came up (7) As far as I am aware Mitchell Die numbers are arbitrary and do not denote any known priority of strikings ( eg between reverse dies 1 and 3 ) (8) Dies used for Mouatt medal raise queries about this medal in my eyes (9) One would need to have seen naming on all known surviving specimens before coming to any definite conclusions about whether issued unnamed or not (10) I regard it as being of relevance to note details of suspensions and variations thereof (11)It would be nice if persons in medal collecting who have information and surviving specimens would contrbute to this investigation and exposition

Thank you Rusty for all of this extensive information. You are doing the subject proud

Thank you for the information and answers Japan X

Thank you for the clarification pat66 It would seem that this is a fairly scarce medal

Thank you for posting the picture Jef. It is the medal I mentioned

In response to Gavin. Thanks for your posting I have contacted CC but did not receive an illustration of the Duncan medal from them which is something that I wish to have for my research into this medal The other party mentioned by you and i are not in communication I regard the SHS Medal as an official award since it was issued by the Governor of the Colony who was the Queen's representative in the Colony and the medal received post facto approval from the UK authorities who authorised payment for it

In answer to Cazack : I do not have photograpic facilities to post illustrations In any event , such are not necessary to the questions posed since basic relevant details have been given

In response to CB above: I fail to see how effectively rerunning a post which has not received response originally is " spamming " A failure of initial response does not necessarily mean that no one knows or no one wants to advise . My experience of this and other forums has been that rerunnings of unanswered posts have indeed produced informational results which have been of benefit to all interested in the topic under discussion. Sometimes people miss the first outing of a posting or may have seen it and intended to respond but then have been caught up in pressures of life and have not got to doing it

Thank you Pat 66.Much appreciated Could you possibly expand on the figures quoted. Are you saying that 2400 in total were issued or just 100?

Thank you for advising Bayern

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