For Bravery,2066390,Gun Layer,1310th Light Artillery Regiment

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Record card

Order booklet nr. B-066786

1. Last name: Panchin
2. First name and patronymic: Vasily Nikolayevich
3. Military rank: Sergeant
4. Sex: Male
5. Year of birth: 1920
6. Place of birth: Village of Novo-Panshino, Petrokamenskoye Raion
7. Party membership (since which year): Candidate member of the Communist Party since 1945
8. Education: Four classes
9. Nationality: Russian
10. Since which year in the Red Army: Since 1940
11. Place of service (name of unit) and duty position at the time of the awarding: 1310th Light Artillery Regiment, 66th Artillery Brigade
12. Current place of service and duty position: Kolkhoz farmer at “Krasny Put” kolkhoz, Petrokamenskoye Raion, Sverdlovsk Oblast
13. Home address of the awardee: Village of Novo-Panshino, Petrokamenskoye Raion
14: Record of all awards presented:

Order of the Red Star 2131446 Z-317630 Order of the 66th Light Artillery Brigade nr. 012/N of May 19, 1945

Bravery Medal 2066390 D-596438 Order of the 66th Light Artillery Brigade nr. 012/N of May 19, 1945



Signature of the awardee: [signed]

I confirm the correctness of the data and the signature of the awardee:

Military commissar of the city of Nizhny-Tagil
Colonel [signed] / Kirsanov /
October 31, 1947

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Order

Secret
Copy nr. 2

Order

Of the 1310th Light Artillery Regiment, 66th Light Artillery Brigade, 21st Dukhovshchina Red Banner Artillery Division of the Reserve of the High Command

January 28, 1945 – Nr. 01/N – Active Army

On behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, I award:

The Medal for Bravery to:

[…]

22. Gun layer in the 6th Battery Sergeant Vasily Nikolayevich Panchin. In combat for the capture of the cities of Ragnit and Tilsit on January 19 and 20, 1945, Sergeant Panchin showed himself an expert in artillery fire and a brave and courageous soldier. On January 20, 1945, during the assault of the city of Tilsit, Sergeant Panchin with four shots destroyed an enemy machine gun, that had forced our infantry to take cover, enabling a further advance.
In a period of two days, Sergeant Panchin destroyed with his gun two heavy and one light enemy machine gun, an observation post, and suppressed the fire of one anti-tank gun.

[INDENT]Born in 1920, Russian, member of the Komsomol, worker, had four classes of education, drafted into the Red Army in 1940 by the Petrokamenskoye Raion, Sverdlovsk Oblast.
Home address: "Krasny put" kolkhoz, Novo-Pinchensky Rural District, Petrokamenskoye Raion, Sverdlovsk Oblast. Lightly wounded on August 2, 1944. He wasn't decorated previously.[/INDENT]

[…]

Commander of the 1310th Light Artillery Regiment
Lieutenant Colonel [signed] / Ovsyannikov /

Chief of staff
Major [signed] / Ostapenko /

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Tilsit. Today, Советск = Sovetsk (Kaliningrad oblast)

55° 04′ 59″ N 21° 52′ 59″ E

Рагнит=Ragnit. Today, Неман = Neman, (Kaliningrad Oblast)

55° 01′ 59″ N 22° 01′ 59″ E

Map (Familienforschung Steinke)

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Record card of an awardee

Last name: Panchin
First name: Vasily
Patronymic: Nikolayevich
Rank: Sergeant
Duty position and unit: Gun layer in the 6th Battery, 1310th Artillery Regiment

Awarded:

Awarded which order of medal: Date of the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR: Awarded for what:
Bravery Medal Order of the 1310th Artillery Regiment, 66th Artillery Brigade, 21st Artillery Division of the Reserve of the High Command nr. 01/N of January 28, 1945

[blue stamp: “Award issued”]


Home address:

Biographical particulars

1. Year of birth: 1920
2. Place of birth:
3. Party membership and period: Member of the Komsomol
4. Nationality: Russian
5. Period of service in the Red Army: 1940


Order or medal: Date of awarding: Place of awarding: Numbers of the orders and medals: Numbers of the award documents: Remarks:





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Паньчин, Василий Николаевич ' Medal for Bravery

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Nice late GPW award :thumbsup

Simon