British Awards Bestowed On Red Army Personnel During World War II

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Gents,

A CBE neck decoration (worn as a breast badge) on a HSU Guards general who fought at Kursk and later in Machuria.

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Gents,

Guards HSU General of the Army A. A. Getman seen wearing his KBE neck decoration as a pinback. Note, too, its associated breast star (lowest star in center row on right breast).

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Gents,

Maj Gen Chalenko, CG of the 15th Guards Cavalry Division, 7th Guards Cavalry Corps opted for a unique mounting for his CBE neck decoration. It incorporates the CBE's original ribbon into his pinback rework. Note, too, his two screwback RSFSR Orders of the Red Banner which were awarded during the Russian Civil War when he was an enlisted cavalryman.

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Gents,

The British DSO as awarded to a Soviet naval Guards Captain Second Rank.

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Gents,

Another DSO - this time a nice image of an award to a Maj Gen.

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Gents,

A third DSO - this one awarded to the legendary DHSU Guards Tank Army Commander Col Gen Katukov.

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Gents,

Another DSO - this one awarded to a HSU Guards Lt Gen.

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To all:

On 12 July 1945, Field Marshal Montgomery, acting on behalf of the King of England, presented honorary British knighthoods to the following Red Army officers:

Marshal of the Soviet Union Zhukov; Commander, 1st Belorussian Front - Knight Grand Cross of The Most Honourable Order of the Bath (G.C.B.)

Marshal of the Soviet Union Rokossovskiy; Commander, 2nd Belorussian Front - Knight Commander of The Most Honourable Order of the Bath (K.C.B.)

General of the Army Sokolovskiy; Deputy Commander, 1st Belorussian Front - Knight Commander of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (K.B.E.)

Colonel General Malinin; Chief of Staff, 1st Belorussian Front - Knight Commander of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (K.B.E.)

The ceremony took place in the heart of shattered Berlin directly underneath the Brandenburg Gate. The Kings Company of the Grenadier Guards formed the Guard of Honor with tanks of the Kings 8th Royal Irish Hussars drawn up on either side.

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Gents,

Two nice images of Col Gen Malinin at aforementioned ceremony. In first image note once again the British tanks in the background as well as Malinin's boot spurs.
In the second image, note Malinin's KBE neck decoration.

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Gents,

An OBE or MBE awarded to naval aviation Maj Gen M. A. Kurochkin, Commander of the Northern Fleet's Air Defense. Note his Orders of Ushakov and Nakhimov. This is a later image of the same person depicted in post #10 above.

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[Will]

Those Orders Of The British Empire look rather ugly on the chest like that. I suppose the aspirational commanders were saving their neck for the Marshal's Star.

I suspect that actually wearing the foreign neck orders around the neck would have seemed too Imperial, too much a throwback to the Tsarist era. Ans since there were no Soviet neck awards, it also might have been viewed as disrespectful to wear a foreign award above the medal bar with Soviet awards. The foreign awards in the photos do all seem to be positioned beneath the Soviet awards.