For Bravery,3175353,Assistant Gunner,109th Rifle Regiment,74th Rifle Division

[Bill Garvy]

Order Book (#630027) dated October 16th, 1946 for Bravery Medal, #3175353, missing, conferred November 1st, 1945.

[Bill Garvy]

Secret

Order

For the 109th Danube Rifle Regiment, 74th Rifle Kiev-Danube (?) Order of the Red Banner, Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Division
104th Rifle Corps
57th Army
South (Grully?) Troops
12th October, 1945 No. 039/H Romania

On behalf of the Presidium of the Council of the Union SSR awards

Medal “For Bravery”

7. Assistant Gunner, 1st Rifle Company, Private Polshchikov Iosif Ostafyvich, in the fighting for Belgrade/Yugoslavia, destroyed 4 enemy soldiers.
Born 1923, Russian, not a member of the party, drafted into the Red Army August 15th, 1945 (?), Suvorov Regional Military Commissariat, Izmailovokoy Oblast, badly wounded December 4th, 1944, and slightly wounded March 15th, 1945. Home address: (intentionally obscured)

Commander 109th Danube Rifle Division
Guards Major Pichkurov

Chief of Staff 109th Danube Rifle Division
Major Lukinov


Note induction date of August 15th, 1945, perhaps a typographical error, given the serious wound date of December 4th, 1944.

[CtahhR]

Pol'schikov's record card states he was conscripted in 1944 (no month given) and that he was also awarded the Medals "For Victory Over Germany In The Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" and "For The Capture Of Budapest".