Ed_Haynes

Thanks, Rick, for this I owe you -- my day is made!!

Yes, it is the young 'Lenin'.

The back page of the 'folding-card' service service record is blank and I don't see any good reason to show it. There's much more. Recommendations and full service record (no photos) and all. I hope Greg god in his wisdom will share these translations soon.

And a 'footnote' of sorts:

The sole difference on this page on the less-legible one is the addition of a final stamp:

The interior (no photo, DAMN, on either),

Now, as to service records . . . the folded-card kind . . .what we'd call the 'short roll' . . . there are two. And one SEEMS more legible, but see below.

And the reverse . . .

And the second one, obverse:

And reverse.

OK, you asked for it . . . it will be rather complex . . .

Two award record cards. Award record card 1 obverse

So used to mochis in "my world", . . .

Dear Ed : Thanks for the reply to my all out call, todate I have a few Azad Hind items.A bar with 4 meadels WM/w X2,RussF,12yrArmyand Azad Hind wo.I thing it belong to a German NCO who was with the 950th.Thanks Darrell English

If you have these with legitimate documentation and/or provenance, please show them. I'd to see them!

My interests, to be honest, lie with INDIANS in the Azad Hind Fauj, not with German "allies".

Ooooffffff. Sorry. But I guess this is one of the reasons we do research?

Research is in hand -- and it is quite a stack -- but, as has become habitual, the translations lag behind. Not sure whether to post.

So, two questions:

1- What does all this mean?

2- How did it get to Delhi?

I suspect some can help with "1" and thanks in advance.

We may never know about "2", but it has been saved from melting down as scrap and is on the way to having its history restored.

. . . and, finally.

Up the chain of command . . .

Part 2.

Recommendation, part 1.

And the fairly blank reverse.

Got back the research on the MMM 1492295 (but the bravery medal is still under search). Translations are (as usual) slower in coming, so I beg translation/summary assistance in the interim so I have some clue what I have here.

The award record card, obverse:

A very nice early Red Star.

The recommendation should be interesting . . . !!!

Thanks for this and, again, congratulations.

I know, I have gotten some early RBL and BOH researched. But without a name it is hard to do; well, it is hard to do anyway, evan harder (= impossible?) without a name). Were this documented . . . .