For Bravery,U/N 1983,Commander Of Rifle Team,61st Rifle Regiment,Stalingrad,Wounds

[Norm Braddock]

Art has once again helped.

Btw, the BM is an unserialized version.

Service Record and pic to follow.

Award Sheet
1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Maricha, Nikolai Antonovich
2. Rank: Junior Lieutenant
3. Duty position: Rifle Platoon Leader – 61 Rifle Regiment, 45 Rifle Division, Stalingrad Front
Recommendation for the Order of the Patriotic War II Class
4. Born: 1907
5. Nationality: Ukrainian
6. Party membership: n/a
7. Previous combat: Stalingrad Front 28.9.42-6.10.42
8. Wounds or shell-shock: seriously wounded 6.10.42
9. Time in Red Army: 3.1942-1.1943
10. Previous awards: Victory over Germany Medal and Defense of Stalingrad Medal
11. Home of record: Kiev-105, Builders’ Street, Bldg 3, Apartment 76
Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment
Comrade N.A. Marich was a participant in combat against the German fascist invaders. While in the 61 Rifle Regiment, 45 Rifle Division (Stalingrad Front) as a rifle platoon leader in fighting to hold the “Red October” Factory in Stalingrad, he killed more than 15 enemy soldiers and officers. During this fighting he was seriously wounded by a bullet in the left forearm, damaging his shoulder nerve.
His wounding is verified by a copy of injury certificate #35 dated 18 March 1943 issued by Evacuation Hospital #1246.
After the wounding he was in recuperation in the hospital of (?)insk, Stalingrad Oblast from 6 October 1942 through the end of November 1942.
Upon release from the hospital he was sent on two months’ leave. Then the #1246 Hospital Committee declared him unfit for military service and removed from eligibility rosters.
The First Secretary of the Communist Party (?)rnitskii Region Comrade V.V. Dankovii, Chairman of the Executive Committee Comrade A.M. Litvinko, as well as the overseeing organs are in agreement with this awarding. There has been no previous awarding.
Conclusion: He is deserving of the Order of the Patriotic War II Class.
Signed Darnitsa Regional Military Commissariat, Kiev – Lieutenant Colonel Tregubenko