Red Star,0700307,Deputy Platoon Leader,1177th Rifle Regiment

[Bill Garvy]

Award Card

Order Booklet 636681

1. Last name: Kovtun
2. Name and patrionymic: Tikhon Fedoseevich
3. Rank: Guards Master Sergeant
4. Gender: Male
5. Birthyear: July 1921
6. Birthplace: Kiev Oblast, Fastov Region, village of Skri(?)nivka
7. Party membership: Comsomol member since 1939
8. Education: elementary
9. Nationality: Ukrainian
10. Time in Red Army: since October 1940
11. Place of service at awarding: Deputy Platoon Leader – 347 Rifle Division, 1177 Rifle Regiment
12. Place of work at present: Simferopol Infantry Academy – Deputy Platoon Leader
13. Home of Record: Simferopol, Kalinin St. #6; Simferopol Infantry Academy

14. Awards:

Designation Serial Number Awarding Organization
Red Star 700.307 347 Rifle Division dated 24.5.1944


Verified by Simferopol Infantry Academy personnel officer on 2 April 1946


Temporary Award Certificate

Temporary award certificate #V 220320 attests that Rifle Platoon Leader Guards Master Sergeant Tikhon Fedoseevich Kovtun (347 RD, 1177 RR), residing in Kiev at 8 Comintern St. Apt. 13, was awarded the Order of the Red Star #700.307 by Order 39/N of the 347 “Melitopol” Rifle Division dated 24 May 1944. He was actually bestowed the award on 7 August 1944.