Grosh, Jurij Fedorovich, Guards Sergeant, 14th Guards Rifle Division

[Bill Garvy]

Order Book (#M136862), undated, issued to Yuri Fedorovich Grosh awarding an Order of the Red Star, 197th Infantry Division, June 1st, 1945, unnumbered.

[Bill Garvy]

Award Card dated May 8th, 1997 (Victory Day), Kalynivka, Vinnyts'ka oblast, Ukraine, as Squad Leader 828th Infantry Regiment, an unnumbered Order of the Red Star by the 197th Infantry Division, signed by Colonel E. Chernelevsky of the Regional Military Commissariat.

I do not think Sergeant Grosh received his Order of the Red Star, and may have been deceased at the time this Order Book was given to his family.

[Bill Garvy]

Award List (Prikaz), Sergeant Grosh is number 7. listed as Squad Leader of the Rifle Company, 828 Infantry Regiment of Vladimir-Volyn.

[Bill Garvy]

Citation reporting the assault on the outskirts of the village of the city of Meysin on May 5th, 1945 wherein Sergeant Grosh assumed command and, following the retreat of the enemy, forty soldiers and officers were captured.

[Bill Garvy]

Sergeant Gosh was also awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd Class, in 1985 as well as the Medal for the Liberation of Prague dated November 28th, 1945, by the Commander of the 14th Guards Rifle Division, Guards Major Kotel'nikov, Serial #A027478.

[Auke]

Originally Posted by Bill Garvy

Citation reporting the assault on the outskirts of the village of the city of Meysin on May 5th, 1945 wherein Sergeant Grosh assumed command and, following the retreat of the enemy, forty soldiers and officers were captured.

The 40 soldiers were killed actually ("left behind on the battlefield" by the enemy, as it's euphemistically called).

[Bill Garvy]

Additional documents belonging to Sergeant Grosh were located from another source.

Order Book (#E046649) dated March 19th, 1955 for Combat Service Medal, unnumbered, possibly for long service.

[CtahhR]

Nice to see items reunite.

The 1955 Medal "For Combat Merits" is certainly a long service award.

[Bill Garvy]

Document for the Medal Victory over Germany dated May 5th, 1946 by the Commander of the 41st Guards Rifle Regiment , Guards Colonel Zatchev, Serial #S072640.

Document for the Badge 25th Anniversary of Victory.

Document for the Medal 30th Anniversary of the Soviet Armed Forces dated January 9th, 1949 by the Commander of Military Unit 03021, Guards Colonel Fedyayev.

[CtahhR]

03021 was the 14th Guards Rifle Division.