For Bravery,2883666,Machinegunner,343rd Rifle Regiment,Wounds 1947

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Here is the research for the BM in a group also containing Valiant Labour medal, Distinguished Labour medal, VoG, OGPW 1 (85) Veteran of Labour medal and anniversary medals. Thanks for the translation Paul :thumbsup

AWARD SHEET – Bravery Medal #2.883.666

1. Last Name, First Name, Middle Name: EGIYAN, Suren Dzhavadovich
2. Military Rank: Starshina
3. Duty position: 789th Rifle Regiment, 140 Rifle Division - machine-gunner. 31st Independent Railroad-Exportation Regiment. Machine gunner/gun-layer 343rd Rifle Regiment
Recommendation for the Order of the Red Star
4. Year of Birth: 1910
5. Nationality: Armenian
6. Time in Red Army: since 28.01.1940
7. Party Membership: member VKP(b) since 1942
8. Previous combat: in Lvov, Brody, Yatula, Shepetovka, Kazan' Vinnitsa, Ordzhinikidze, Belorechensk, Kiev from 23.06.1941 to 12.01.1944.
9. Wounds or shell-shock: twice injured and shell-shocked
10. Inducted by: Simanskii RVK, Armenian SSR
11. Previous awards: none
12. Home of record: village of Akhlatyansk, Simanskii raion, Armenian SSR

Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment: On 04.07.41 near Kalinovka, Vinnitsa Oblast he was standing guard at the regimental HQ when he detained two Germans who had changed into our uniform and delivered them to the commander of the 798th Regiment. Noticing [trans: their discovery], the Germans began shooting and wounded him in the leg.

As a mortar company first sergeant in the 3rd Rifle Battalion, 343rd Rifle Regiment, 38th Rifle Division, 38th Army, on 21.09.43 he participated in the Dnepr forced river crossing and subsequent capture of Grigorevka, Kiev Oblast (83km south of Kiev) and participated in the repulsion of numerous enemy counterattacks, holding of Grigorevka, and expansion of the bridgehead by 10 kilometers and despite being shell-shocked he did not leave his post on the day until the day of his wounding on 12.01.44 when he was evacuated to the hospital (according to his wound certificate).

At the present he works as the director of the Akhlatyan elementary/middle school. He is considered one of the best workers, both self-disciplined and conscientious in his duties.

He has been dropped from the reserve roles due to being unfit for duty as a result of his two wounds and one bout of shell-shock.

Attachment: Copy of the one-page certificate from Hospital #2464.

Signed Major Davidyan on 16th November 1945

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Certificate given to First Sergeant Suren Dzhavadovich Egiyan (343rd Rifle Regiment, 38th Rifle Division) who was in medical recuperation in Hospital #2464 from 17.03.44-18.05.44 for being wounded in the right rib cage and having the presence of a foreign object in the right lung diaphragm. His wounding was as a result of action on the front lines. He was wounded 12.01.44 in defense of the USSR.

As the result of a doctors’ commission recognizing Post 25, Group II by the Peoples Commissariat of Defense #336 -1942, he was declared unfit for medical service after a four-month observation.

Signed Hospital Chief and Chief of Section and stamp of Hospital #2464, verified by the Sismanskii Regional Military Commissariat, Major Davidyan.


Simon