Denisenko/Lilitskaja, Tatjana Fedorovna, Guards Starshina, Evacuation Hospital #3240

[Bill Garvy]

Order Book (#283551) dated November 18th, 1947 documenting a Medal for Combat Service (#2109847) conferred April, 1945. Prikaz and citation could not be found on podvignaroda.

Married shortly after the war her last name changed from Denisenko to Lilitskaya as will soon be shown.

[Bill Garvy]

Document for the Medal Victory over Germany dated February 25th, 1946 by a Regional Military Commissariat, Captain Kalaitanov, Serial #M0412558.

Document for the Medal Defense of Stalingrad dated August 13th, 1946 by Evacuation Hospital 3240, Medical Service Colonel Eider, Serial #G43534.

Temporary certificate for Combat Service Medal by the 1318th Artillery Regiment, Colonel Khuz'iyenov.

[Bill Garvy]

Document for the Badge Excellent Medical Service dated April 16th, 1943 by Technical Lieutenant Levin, and photograph reported to be that of Nurse Lilitskaya.

[CtahhR]

There is a Nurse Tat'jana Ivanovna Denisenko on "the site" that fits a lot of the story here, but may indeed be a completely different person.

Ivanovna was the same rank, awarded a "For Combat Merits" in April 1945, at Stalingrad and positioned as part of the 353rd Separate Medical-Sanitary Battalion. Maybe the history of the 353rd could shed some like on to whether it was once lined up with the 1318th.

[PaulR]

What rank did she hold? I do not see any rank on her uniform.

[CtahhR]

According to the paperwork she ended the war as a Guards Starshina Medical Service.

[Bill Garvy]

At the top of the Temporary Certificate for her Combat Service Medal is the rank of "Старшину" literally "petty officer" or Master Sergeant, I think. . . As to the picture, you're right, there is no way of knowing if this photograph is, in fact, Nurse Lilitskaya, only to say the photograph accompanied the documents and could, ostensibly, be her photograph. The handwriting on the reverse of the photograph is indecipherable.

[CtahhR]

I think in this case she would be "Matron Denisenko" in a medical context.

The "Starshina" ranks would cover Sergeant Major to Warrant Officer I/Conductor in "English". A Company Starshina would equate to Company Sergeant Major.

Here's an earlier Yorkshire equivalent from the family photo album.