Filjachenko, Nikolaj Vasili'evich, Guards Captain, 49th Guards Mortar Regiment

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Originally Posted by USSR

Thnx Alex, great stuff! Do I understand correctly that there is no mention of the medal for battle merit and the capture of berlin?

Btw, do you do research?

Sure thing!

No mention of the Merit Medal and Red Star. They're long service awards from after the war. The Merit Medal would have come around 1946-1947 I guess. The Red Star should then be 1952, but the serial number actually puts it solidly at 1954-1956. This would just be the result of bureaucratic processes.

The Berlin medal isn't mentioned, but then that's also no surprise. It was awarded in 1946 according to its document, and the OPW1 award citation was submitted in May 1945.

I will direct you to Auke for research :) You would only ask for the record card and service record, since you already have the citations. But you don't even need the record card really, since you already have just about all the info it would give.

Originally Posted by Tommy

Cheers Alex, that's what i was getting at! I just couldn't work out spelling!

Tom

Good try, Tom. The small pictures and sideways Berlin document weren't a big help.


Cheers,
Alex