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      Reverse.
    2. Ed_Haynes
      All untranslated, but an ABUNDANCE of award record cards. In no particular order: Card 1, obverse.
    3. Ed_Haynes
      Lieutenant-Colonel Ivan Petrovich Imaichev, 56th Gun Artillery Brigade Once again, no real translations, but the end of the tale is clear: KIA 8 February 1945. His posthumous OPW 1, #129591.
    4. Ed_Haynes
      Thanks, Rick! As always, all help welcomed. Why am I such an illiterate!!??
    5. Ed_Haynes
      And, finally . . . .
    6. Ed_Haynes
      Part 3. The bureaucracy.
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      Part 2 (with the text that fell into the "Xeroxing Gutter" added by the helpful researcher -- wish they did this more often!).
    8. Ed_Haynes
      The recommendation, part 1.
    9. Ed_Haynes
      Record card 2.
    10. Ed_Haynes
      Award record card 1.
    11. Ed_Haynes
      Reverse.
    12. Ed_Haynes
      Researched, but not translated. HELP?!?!? I do know the general plot-line, though: KIA 26 October 1944. Temporary award certificate 1.
    13. Ed_Haynes
      Junior Sergeant Ivan Stephanovich Sheblikin, 62nd Self-Propelled Artillery Division His posthumous OPW 2, #815628.
    14. Ed_Haynes
      Closeup. In English, strangely enough (or not?).
    15. Ed_Haynes
      We all know the khasdars, the "border guards" of The N-W Frontier. They have always adapted their garb to fit the standards of those dominant at any given moment, from Mughal times to the present. The cap worn by this force today as they guard the Khyber Pass.
    16. Ed_Haynes
      Sorry this has taken so long. The shoulder straps on the one I started the thread with.
    17. Ed_Haynes
      I'll spare you the documents, unless you are foolhardy enough to ask for them
    18. Ed_Haynes
      The back.
    19. Ed_Haynes
      Him.
    20. Ed_Haynes
      In the newspaper article above, referemce was made to ". . . the son, a Great Partiotic War veteran . . . ." This is Georgii Gavriilovich Sharikalov, see http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=23242
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      Son of Guards Colonel Gavriil Kupriyanovich Sharikalov (see http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=23237 ) Incomplete, unresearched, but still interesting as a family group. Missing at least a WWII OPW. The one shown is his second class anniversary award.
    22. Ed_Haynes
      On the back of the photo.
    23. Ed_Haynes
      The monument. You must wonder how many -- if any -- of these monuments survive in today's Latvia?
    24. Ed_Haynes
      Translated:
    25. Ed_Haynes
      I may be missing some things, but this is probably (more than?) enough. To end the tale, a newspaper article, source and date unknown.
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