Red Star,0091677,Battery Commander,871st Fighting Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment

[Bill Garvy]

Record card
Order book № 741751

1. Last name: Bogachev
2. First, middle names: Georgy Vladimirovich
3. Military rank: Lieutenant
4. Sex: Male
5. Year of birth: 1913
6. Place of birth: Chertorizh station, Volyn region
7. Party membership since: non-party
8. Education: higher
9. Nationality: Ukrainian
10. In the Red Army since: since November 1939 to September 1944
11. Place of service (name of the unit) and position occupied when awarded: 871st light artillery regiment, 79th light artillery brigade, Leningrad Front, Battery Commander
12. Current place of service and position: Shepetovka, Kamenets-Podolsk region, representative of Planning Board.
13. Home address of the awardee: 126 K. Marx St., Shepetovka, Kamenets-Podolsk region

14. Record of previous awards
Names of orders, medals Their numbers Document numbers Ground for award
Checked

Red Banner 82077 Temp.certificate Г-065498 Order to command of artillery of Leningrad Front No 017/N of March 04, 1944

For the Defense of Leningrad - Perm. certificate H-00912 Decree of December 22, 1942

For the Victory Over Germany - Perm. Cert. И-0362508 Decree of May 09, 1945

For Heroic Labour - Perm. Cert. З-0105025 Decree of June 06, 1945

Red Star 91677 Order to 67th Army No 082/N of January 30, 1943

Signature of awardee (signed) ________________________
Data correctness
and signature of awardee Shepetovka city ??
attested by: Major (signed)
December 09, 1946

[Bill Garvy]

All lines to be mandatory completed

AWARD CITATION

1. First, middle and last names Bogachev Georgy Vladimirovich
2. Rank Junior Lieutenant
3. Position, unit Commander of battery command platoon, 871st fighting anti-tank artillery regiment . Artillery of reserve of the Main Command.
Is recommended for the order of Red Star
4. Year of birth 1913
5. Nationality Ukrainian
6. Party membership Non-party
7. Participation in battles (when and where) Patriotic War, Leningrad Front since June 22, 1941.
8. Wounds or contusions None
9. In the Red Army since February 11, 1940
10. Drafted by what district military commissariat Shepetovsky district military commissariat, Kamenets-Podolsk region
11. Previous awards None
12. Permanent home address (of the prospective awardee or his/her family) Gorodische village, Shepetovsky district, Kamenets-Podolsk region

I. Brief description of personal feat or merits
Junior Lieutenant Bogachev G.V., being in battle arrays since January 03 to January 15, 1943 during the period of 330th rifle regiment attack at Shlisselburg under the enemy’s continuous fire provided advance of his infantry. He skillfully adjusted fire of platoon by artillery fire, thus he destroyed up to 100 Hitlerites and 3 heavy machine-guns in earth-and-timber emplacements. He neutralized 5 machine-guns and two mortar batteries.

In spite of continuous communication breaks, comrade Bogachev managed to use radio station to be in touch with the regiment and direct artillery fire, thus assisting our infantry in capture of the territory from Maryino cemetery to narrow-gage railroad and in getting a grip thereof.

Comrade Bogachev deserves to be recommended for the government order “Red Star”.

Commander of 871st fighting anti-tank artillery regiment . Artillery of reserve of the Main Command.
Lieutenant Colonel (signed) /Cherkasov/

January 6th, 1943

Awarded with Red Star order under order to 67th Army No 082/N of February 6th, 1943

[Bill Garvy]

Award List, pending translation, he is #5. . .

[Bill Garvy]

Junior Lieutenant Georgy Vladimirovich Bogachev's Order of the Red Star, #91677.