Soviet Guards Colonel Gavriil Kupriyanovich Sharikalov

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Part 14

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Part 15 (and last).

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And the dark muddy xeroxed photo from the personnel file.

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I have the (untranslated) recommendations for some of his other awards, but as they have gone missing (returned after his death?), I won't add them here.

Instead, a later (low-quality) photo from http://www.forvalor.com/s98.htm

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There's much more in the file, but better another photo of him with his mates -- also from http://www.forvalor.com/s98.htm

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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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Translated:

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The monument.

You must wonder how many -- if any -- of these monuments survive in today's Latvia?

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On the back of the photo.

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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