For Combat Merits,0089531,Typist,201st Latvian Rifle Division,North-Western Front

[Norm Braddock]

Award Card
Order Booklet 396610
1. Last name: Saksta
2. Name and Patrionymic: Aleksandra Iosifovna
3. Rank:
4. Sex: Female
5. Birthyear: 1911
6. Birthplace: Riga, Latvian SSR
7. Party Membership: n/a
8. Education: mid-level
9. Nationality: Latvian
10. Service in the Red Army: 1941-1945
11. Place of service and duty position at time of awarding: Political Section, 130 Latvian Rifle Corps – Typist
12. Place of service and duty position at the current time: Peoples Commissariat of Defense, Latvian SSR – Personnel Section Inspector
13. Home of Record: Riga, Katolicheskaya St. #33, Apt. 15
14. Awards
Award Serial Number Awarder
Combat Service Medal 89.531 11 Army dated 7 September 1942
Red Star 1.539.082 130 Latvian Rifle Corps dated 17 May 1942
Verified 8 December 1945 by Latvian SSR Commissariat Chief of Personnel Major of Administrative Services Gafarov








Unit Award Listing

SECRET
North Western Front, 11 Army Order #01569 dated 7 September 1942
On behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet USSR, I award to members of the 201 Latvian Rifle Division the following decorations for exemplary accomplishment of the Command’s orders in the struggle against the German invaders and for displaying valor and courage:
Combat Service Medal
29. Senior Sergeant Aleksandra Iosifovna Saksta – Typist, Division Political Section
Co-signed by the 11 Army Commander General-Lieutenant Morozov and Member of the Military Council Regimental Commissar Malov














Award Citation
Award Sheet
1. Last name, name, patrionymic: Saksta, Aleksandra Iosifovna
2. Rank: Senior Sergeant
3. Duty position: Typist – Political Section, 201 Latvian Rifle Division

Application for the Combat Service Medal
4. Born: 1912
5. Nationality: Pole
6. In Red Army: since October 1941
7. Party membership: n/a
8. Combat participation: Western Front, Klin Axis; North Western Front at Staraya Russa
9. Wounds or shell-shock: n/a
10. Previous decorations: n/a
11. Inducted by: volunteer
12. Home of record: Latvian SSR, Riga

Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment
Comrade Saksta has worked in the division since its formation and is a participant of the division’s fighting on the Western and North Western Front, as well as presently in the destruction of the 16 German Army.
She is disciplined, steadfast, dedicated to the Lenin-Stalin Party, and serves as an example as a woman-patriot to her Motherland. She was among the first women of the division’s HQ to donate to the division’s tank drive, giving a most valuable momento – a golden ring. Working during any combat conditions from aerial bombing to artillery shelling, she has proven herself a bold, composed, and accomplished in the political section’s combat assignments.
Comrade Saksta is fully deserving of the Combat Service Medal.
Signed 201 Latvian Rifle Corps Political Section Battalion Commissar Krumin on 3 September 1942
Endorsed 201 Latvian Rifle Division Commander General-Major Veikin and Regimental Commissar Zuris on 3 September 1942
Awarded the Combat Service Medal by 11 Army Order 0196 dated 7 September 1942, verified by Army Chief of Personnel Colonel (?) on 9 September 1942