Medal for Battle Merit, to Captain Levchenko, P.L.

[Wat05]

Greetings, fellow phalerists!

 

Today I would like to present a Medal for Battle Merit, No. 2186611. I was able to have it researched, and here is the results...

 

It was awarded to a Captain of the 4th Guards Motorized Engineering Warsaw Battalion, 1st Separate Guards Motorized Engineering Brest Red Banner and Order of Suvorov Brigade - LEVCHENKO, Petr Lavrent'yevich. Here is our hero...

 

 

Now, I will show you the Medal, and the Register Card. 

 

 

 

 

 

Here, we can see the basic information. He was born in 26 August, 1906, in the Village of Moshny, Cherkassy Region, Kyiv Oblast. He had no Party Membership, had 7 Years of Education, and was serving in the Red Army from 1941 until 1946. After war, he was working as Manager of the Teahouse in Moshny, where he still lives. Throughout the war, he received the Order of the Red Star, Medal for Battle Merit, Medal for the Defence of Stalingrad, Medal for the Liberation of Warsaw, Medal for the Capture of Berlin, and the Medal for the Victory over Germany. This will be the story of how he received the Medal for Battle Merit. I will place here the Award Sheet, Original and Translation. 

 

First, Original...

 

 

 

Here is the following translation...

 

 

 

When searching his name, I found that he held an Officers Card, which I retrieved. I will apply it here, but I have not translated it yet. 

 

 

 

 

Edited Friday at 01:03 by Wat05

[Wat05]

Some things special, is that according to the information here, and on Pamyat Naroda, Petr Lavrent'yevich was part of a 'Spetsnaz' Group, the Special Forces, which I believe may be quite interesting. Furthermore, the group he was part of, the 1st Guards Engineering Brigade, were the providers and supporters of the 5th Shock Army, of which in their headquarters is where the unconditional surrender of the German Reich was signed by Field-Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, on the 8th of May, in Karlshorst, Berlin - which marked the end of the War in Europe. 

 

 

Edited Friday at 01:33 by Wat05

[Mondvor]

Medal is in really good condition with original ribbon and well preserved enamel in letters CCCP.

[Wat05]

Thank you!

[Egorka]

It is pleasant to see an all original medal in good condition, but yet with traces of passed time.

I wonder, he got the lowest medal at that stage of the war, when the wards were normally issued much more liberally to mark upcoming victory. Recommended to OPW2, but got it dropped all the way to FCM...

[Wat05]

Thank you! I agree, it is beautiful when the orders and medals remain with their original ribbons and blocks. I especially love the feel and quality of the ribbon.

It is quite unusual, but I imagine that it was lowered because he was part of the Rear Services, and that the orders were more awarded for combat circumstances.