For Combat Merits,0705944,Section Commander,185th Separate Auto-Company Of Supply

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Here is the Medal "For Combat Merits" #705944.

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1. Family, Gvaj
2. Name And Patronym, Ivan Timofeevich
3. Military Rank, Senior Sergeant
4. Sex, Male
5. Year Of Birth, 1912
6. Place Of Birth, Grodno Oblast, Pruzhany Region, Zastava
7. Party Membership, Candidate for membership in the VKP(b) from 1944.
8. Education, None
9. Nationality, Russian
10. From Which Year In Red Army, From IX 1934 to IX 1936 and from VII 1941 to XII 1945
11. Which Service And Position At Time Of Award, 4th Ukrainian Front, 81st Rifle Kalinkovichi Red Banner Rifle Division, Management Of The Division - Driver
12. Place Of Service And Position At Current Time, Chita Oblast, Shilka Region, Shilka
13. Home Address Of Awarded, Chita Oblast, Shilka Region, Shilka, Professional Union 156.

Red Star 815684
Red Star 1017947
Red Star 1463213
For Combat Merits 705944
For Victory Over Germany

A triple combat Red Star recipient!

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1. Family, Name, Patronym. Gvaj, Ivan Timofeevich
2. Rank. Sergeant
3. Position and unit. Commander of a section, 185th Separate Auto Company Of Supply, 81st Rifle Division, 61st Army, Belorussian Front
Presented For Governmental Award - Medal "For Combat Merits"
4. Year of birth. 1912
5. Nationality. Russian
6. Party Membership. None
7. Participation in the Civil War, subsequent military activity in defence of the USSR and Patriotic War (where, when) In the Patriotic War from 1-5-1942, 61st Army, Belorussian Front.
8. Has been wounded, contused in Patriotic War. Not had.
9. From which time in Red Army. From 1940.
10. Which Regional Military Commissariat called. Borzja Regional Military Commissariat, Chita Oblast.
11. Has received awards (for which distinction). Award not had.

Comrade Gvaj works as a driver of a machine "Ford" delivering and produce to the frontal area.
In the period when before the division stood the task of crossing the river Dnepr Comrade Gvaj not knowing sleep nor rest, under continuous bombardment from enemy aviation, enemy artillery fire delivered ammunition and produce to the active units of the division, that provided combat success of the division, keeping the materiel in good condition.

Commander of the 185th Separate Auto Company Of Supply, 81st Rifle Division
Captain Haim
6th November 1943