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    My Last researched papers is this correspnding to a private from the 38th Guards rifle div, for assauting the Village of Yablochnoe, through the river Bug...

    Award Card

    1. Last name: Orlov

    2. Name and patrionymic: Petr Yakovlevich

    3. Rank: Private

    4. Gender: Male

    5. Birthyear: 1903

    6. Birthplace: Ryazan Oblast, Sasovskii Region, village of Sh. Maidan

    7. Party membership: Yes, since 1945

    8. Education: elementary

    9. Nationality: Russian

    10. Time in Red Army: 10.1941-8.1945

    11. Place of service at awarding: 38 Guards Rifle Division ? Mortarman

    12. Place of work at present: Ryazan Oblast, Sasovskii Region, ?Probuzhdenie? (trans: ?Awakening?) Collective Farm ? Collective Farm Worker

    13. Home address: Ryazan Oblast, Sasovskii Region, village of Sh. Maidan

    14. Awards:

    Designation Serial Number Awarding Organization

    Glory III #341.651 38 Guards Rifle Division, Order #77/N dated 2.10.44

    Verified by Guards Colonel Chirkov, Sasovskii Regional Military Commissariat on 29 November 1947

    (signed)

    Award Sheet

    1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Orlov, Petr Yakovlevich

    2. Rank: Guards Private

    3. Duty position: Rifleman ? 1 Battalion, (?) Brest Rifle Regiment *

    Recommendation for the Order of Glory III Class

    4. Born: 1903

    5. Nationality: Russian

    6. Party membership: no

    7. Previous combat: (?)-11.41- 2.8.43, 1 Belorussian Front, since 3.44 until present

    8. Wounds or shell-shock: lightly wounded 3.43, (?) 8.43 on the Central Front

    9. Time in Red Army: since 8.1941

    10. Inducted by: Sasovskii Regional Military Commissariat, Ryazan Oblast

    11. Previous awards: n/a

    12. Home of record: Ryazan Oblast, Sasovskii Region, village of Palyaki, Sh. Maidan wife ? Orlova, Matrena Alekseevna

    Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment

    On 22.7.44 during the forced crossing of the Western Bug River, he was the first to rush into the village of Yablochnoe and by his personal bravery seized an enemy trenchline. In hand-to-hand combat he killed (5 German soldiers and captured 2 machineguns.

    Signed, Commander, 110 Guards Rifle Regiment, Guards Lieutenant Colonel Ilyashenko on (?) November 1941

    Awarded the Order of Glory III Class by Order #077/N of the 38 Guards Rifle Division dated 2.10.44

    NT/.: *1er Batallion, 110 (Brest) regiment, 38 Guards Rifle Division,

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    Another nice one. I never cease to be amazed how research can add history and meaning to these chunks of metal and cloth.

    How many years did you have to wait for this research? :cheers:

    So many... months, I?ve ask for it in 1-2 th. May, 2008...

    But It?s all Ok Now...

    Regards :cheers:

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