Red Star,0259157,Lineman,34th Guards Rifle Division

[Bill Garvy]

Order booklet V 044366
1. Last name: Dmitriev
2. Name and Patrionymic: Mikhail Ivanovich
3. Rank: Reserve Senior Sergeant
4. Sex: Male
5. Birthyear: 1922
6. Birthplace: village of Dedovichi, Leningrad Oblast
7. Party Membership: member since 1946
8. Education: mid-level
9. Nationality: Russian
10. Service in the Red Army: 2.1941-11.1945
11. Place of service and duty position at time of awarding: 34 Rifle Division, 46 Army, 3 Ukrainian Front – Deputy Platoon Leader
12. Place of service and duty position at the current time: Leningrad Kirov (?) Thread Collective – Welder
13. Home of Record: Leningrad, Kostromskaya St. #2, Apt. 107

14. Awards

Award Serial Number Awarder
Red Star 259.157 34 Guards Rifle Division, 5 Shock Army dated August 1 1943
Victory over Germany Medal Edict dated 9.5.1945

Verified by Smolninskii Regional Military Commissariat Official Lieutenant Colonel Gu(?)kovskii on 4 February 1947

[Bill Garvy]

Award Sheet

1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Dmitriev, Mikhail Ivanovich
2. Rank: Guards Private
3. Duty position: Signals Operator – Battery HQ, 34 Guards Rifle Division Artillery Commander

Application for the Order of the Red Star

4. Birthyear: 1922
5. Nationality: Russian
6. Party membership: Comsomol member
7. Participation in combat: since 22 June 1941
8. Wounds or shell-shock: n/a
9. Time in the Red Army: since May 1941
10. Inducted by: Dedovskii Regional Military Commissariat
11. Earlier Awards: n/a
12. Home of record: Leningrad, #15 Ochkovskaya St. #8, Apt. 100

Short description of personal combat feat or service

In the June fighting while penetrating the enemy prepared defensive belt near Dmitrievka west of the Mius river, Dmitriev provided continuous communication between the division artillery commander’s observation post and the subordinate unit’s commanders, during which time he repaired 21 broken communications wires under enemy enemy artillery and mortar fire, thus supporting the artillery units’ direction and support.
He is deserving of the Order of the Red Star.

Signed 34 Guards Rifle Division Artillery Commander Guards Lieutenant Colonel Baklai on 28 July 1943

Endorsed 34 Guards Rifle Division Commander Colonel (?) on 29 July 1943

[trans: handwritten note] Awarded the Order of the Red Star by Order 24/N of the 34 Guards Rifle Division dated 1.8.43. Verified by the Division Deputy Chief of Personnel Guards Senior Lieutenant (?) on 29.7.43

[Bill Garvy]

Order of the Red Star 259157.