For Bravery,1411072,Submachine-gunner,797th Rifle Regiment,232nd Infantry Division

[Bill Garvy]

Temporary Certificate, #G304876, for Bravery Medal, #1411072, awarded to Private Nikita Fedorovich Il’chenko, 797th Rifle Regiment, 232nd Infantry Sumy-Kiev, Order of Lenin, Order of Suvorov, Order of Bogdan Khmelintsky, Order of the Red Banner Rifle Division on September 4th, 1944 and signed by Colonel and Hero of the Soviet Union (#4247), Dmitry Lavrent’vich Shtelmakh, Commander of the 797th Infantry Regiment, 232nd Infantry Division, November 20th, 1944.

Prikaz

797th Rifle Regiment, 232nd Infantry Sumy-Kiev, Order of Lenin, Order of Suvorov, Order of Bogdan Khmelintsky, Order of the Red Banner Rifle Division, 2nd Ukrainian Front

Medal “For Bravery” (stamped “2nd Ukrainian Front”)

4. Submachine gunner in a Submachinegun Platoon Private Il'chenko, Nikita Fedorovich for that, in the battle for the city of Pyatra on August 26th, 1944, in spite of the heavy fire from the enemy he was among the first to enter the city and during the street battles with the German invaders, destroyed eight German soldiers.

Born 1905 in the city of Rozhdeniya, Russian, Not a party member, Inducted into the Red Army by the Kirov Regional Military Commissariat, Kubiyshev District, home address [intentionally obscured].

My thanks to Tommy for his invaluable assistance, checking and improving my feeble translation efforts. . .

[Auke]

g. rozhdeniya means 'year of birth', i.e. he was born in 1905. :)

[Tommy]

Haha you're right!

My bad! :) I shoulda paid more attention to my Goda's and Gorod's! Haha