Soviet Interesting Award Record Card

[Gerd Becker]

Hi everyone,

here is an award card of a Red Banner, which i once owned and which was unfortunately a piece, which i wasn?t comfortable with and i sent it back. However, to make a long story short, research was already ordered and the researcher wasn?t able anymore to stop it. The new owner of the piece is unfortunately not interested in the research, even for half of the price

So i share the award card with your guys here, that its not completely wasted money. Its interesting, as he was a quite young chap who was highly awarded with Bravery Awards. Here is the list:

Order of the Great Patriotic War Nr. 17.988 13.9.43

Order of the Red Banner Nr. 106969 7.6.44

Order of the Red Banner Nr. 171.319 18.8.44

Order of Alexander Nevsky Nr. 25.514 14.1.45

Order of the Red Banner Nr. 203.417 20.2.45

Order of the GPW 2nd class Nr. 194.850 8.6.45

Order of Suvorov Nr. 2.729 2.12.45

Order of the Red Star Nr. 3.626.994 30.12.56

Medal for Military Merit w/o S/n 17.5.51

Medal for the Capture of Budapest

Medal for Victory over Germany

The award card, obverse

[Gerd Becker]

and the reverse

[Ed_Haynes]

Nice, Gerd. But "not interested in the research"?!?!?!

[Gerd Becker]

and this is how his group would have looked like

Edited November 25, 2006 by Gerd Becker

[Gerd Becker]

Nice, Gerd. But "not interested in the research"?!?!?!

Yes, very sad, isn?t it?

[Riley1965]

Yes, very sad, isn?t it?

OUCH!!! That has to hurt

Doc

[Guest Rick Research]

Not quite as sad as voluntarily sending the Order away into the void though.

"Life lessons" always seem to be learned the hard way.