For Combat Merits,0779355,Section Commander,84th Guards Rifle Regiment,Donbass

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Here is Medal "For Combat Merits" #779355.

$14 delivered for a 1943 award might prove to be a little on the high end by the end of 2016.

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1. Family, Tihomirov
2. Name And Patronym, Vasilij Fedorovich
3. Military Rank, Guards Starshina
4. Sex, Male
5. Year Of Birth, 1910
6. Place Of Birth, Vanino, Furmanov Region, Ivanov Oblast
7. Party Membership, Member VKP/b/ since 1943
8. Education, None
9. Nationality, Russian
10. From Which Year In Red Army, 1941-1945
11. Which Service And Position At Time Of Award, 33rd Rifle Division, 84th Rifle Regiment, Clerk-Starshina, Staff Company, Order 010/N 3.5.45
12. Place Of Service And Position At Current Time, Ridliki, Team "New Path", Economist-Planner
13. Current address of awarded, Ridliki, Revolution 12

For Combat Merits 779355 31-12-1943
For Bravery 256506 30-04-1943
Glory III 57948 19-05-1944
Glory II 9472 12-12-1944
Red Star 1521527 11-04-1945
For Bravery 3014560 03-05-1945

(Strangely both post Glory II combat awards were never suggested to be a Glory I)

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Section Commander, 4th Separate Company, Senior Sergeant Tihomirov, Vasilij Fedorovich, for that, whilst participating in combat with German occupiers in the region of the village of Alekseevka, Kvashino and the collective farm "Metallist", showed bravery and courage. In combat in the region of the village of Alekseevka fire from his submachinegun destroyed 3 German soldiers. In combat performing as battalion clerk organising accounting and reporting for his staff, despite the fact, he was out of contact with his Battalion commander and his deputies.

1910 born, Russian, Member VKP/b/, Called to the RKKA 27-07-1941, Rodnikov Regional Military Commissariat, Ivanovsk Oblast.