Red Star,0429593,Senior Battalion Adjutant,342nd Guards Rifle Regiment

[Bill Garvy]

Award Card

Order Booklet 868385

1. Last name: Roi
2. Name and patrionymic: Tikhon Vasilevich
3. Rank: Guards Captain
4. Gender: Male
5. Birthyear: 26th January, 1913
6. Birthplace: Poyal. Village, Oleksinets Gor(?) Region, Kamenets-Podolsk Oblast
7. Party membership: since 1942
8. Education: advanced
9. Nationality: Ukrainian
10. Time in Red Army: 5.VII.1941
11. Place of service at awarding: Senior Adjutant – 121st Guards Rifle Division
12. Place of work at present: M. Goredok, Kamenets-Pod. Oblast, RONO Director
13. Home address: M. Goredok

14. Awards:

Designation/Serial Number/Awarding Organization
Bravery Medal 195.475 1150th Rifle Regiment dated 05.IV.43(?)
Red Star 429.593 3[trans: sic “13”] Army dated 8.12.43 [trans: other serial number evidence and the below
entry of “13 Army” tends to indicate an error]
Combat Service Medal 2.933.445 13th Army dated 10.2.45

Verified by Goredok Municipal Military Commissariat Captain (?) on 11th March, 1947

[Bill Garvy]

Award Sheet

1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Roi Tikhon Vasilevich
2. Rank: Captain
3. Duty position: Senior Adjutant – 3rd Rifle Battalion, 342nd Guards Rifle Regiment
Recommendation for the [trans: entry left blank]
4. Born: 1913
5. Nationality: Ukrainian
6. Party membership: yes
7. Previous combat: Patriotic War since 27.1(?).41
8. Wounds or shell-shock: wounded 26.7.43
9. In Red Army: since 7.41
10. Inducted by: Gorodok Regional Military Commissariat, Kamenets-Podolsk Oblast
11. Previous awards: Bravery Medal from 64th Army dated 2.(?).43
12. Home of record: [trans: entry intentionally obscured]

Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment

Comrade Roi has been active participant of much fighting against the German invaders. During offensive operations 22-30 November, 1943 he displayed courage and steadfastness. In fighting for the population areas of Studenets, Koselyatskii, Rogozil, and Voznesevsk of the Kormyanskii Region, Comrade Roi led subordinate units in an organized manner in combat and situated himself the entire time in the subordinate units’ fighting formation, setting the example of valor and bravery thus motivating the soldiers and officers to the accomplishment of their assigned mission.

During the capture of Koraga Comrade Roi boldly led the subordinate units into combat from the enemy’s flank and with reconnaissance was the first to advance into the population center when in street fighting he personally killed two Germans. Comrade Roi has good experience in offensive combat which brought success in the most recent engagements.

For displayed courage and bravery and for capable leadership of subordinate units in combat against the German occupiers, he is deserving of the Order of the Red Star.

Signed Commander, 342nd Guards Rifle Regiment, Guards Major Yachmenov, and Chief of Staff Guards MajorSolodev on 3rd December, 1943

Endorsed Commander, 121st Gomel Guards Rifle Division, Guards General-Major Chervonin on 4th December, 1943

[Bill Garvy]

Unit Award Order

SECRET

[trans: “Belorussian Front 31.3.44” and other administrative data written in pencil]

3rd Army Order 153/N dated 8th December, 1943

On behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet USSR, I award the following decorations for exemplary accomplishment of the Command’s missions in the struggle against the German invaders and for having displayed valor and bravery:

Order of the Red Star to:

3. Guards Captain Tikhon Vasilevich Roi – Senior Battalion Adjutant, 342nd Guards Rifle Regiment, 121st Gomel Guards Rifle Division

Signed 3rd Army Commander Guards General-Lieutenant Gorbatov, Member of the Military Committee General-Major Konnov, and Chief of Staff General-Major Ivashechkin. Compiled by Army Chief of Personnel Colonel Kornilenko.

3 Copies
1 – Personnel File
2-3 – Peoples Commissariat of Defense Personnel File
Compiled by Sirotenko

[Bill Garvy]

Guards Captain Tikhon Vasilevich Roi, #429593.

My thanks to Auke & desantnik for their invaluable assistance.