For Combat Merits,0807967,Head Secretary,64th Communications Section,7th Guards Army

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Here is a little researched group I have bought on the "Marketplace". This is a small group composed of a Stalingrad medal and a Combat Merit Medal.

Here is the translation I have made.

Registration form and award card

1. Last Name : Shmul
2. Name and Patronymic : Lydia Ivanovna
3. Military Rank : Caporal
4. Sex : Woman
5. Year of birth : 1923
6. Place of birth : Mozovaya, Khakov Oblast
7. Party membership : 1938, member of the VLKSM (Komsomol)
8. Education : Secondary
9. Nationality : Ukrainian
10. Service in the Red Army : October 7th1942 – August 1st 1945
11. Place of service and duty position at time of awarding : 64th Independent Army Workshop of Signals, 7th Guards Army, Senior Clerk
12. Place of service and duty position at the current time : Kharkov Oblast, Kharkov medicine institute, student
13. Home Address : Kharkov Oblast, city of Lozovaya, Soviet Street # 10

14. Awards

#1 Combat Service Medal #807967, 10.10.1943
#2 Medal for the Defence of Stalingrad, 22.12.1942

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Nice presentation.

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Citation
I have been helped for this translation from Russian to French, so I have made a sloppy French-English translation for the forum. I hope there was not too much information lost during the two translations.

Name, First Name, Patronymic: Shmul Lydia Ivanovna
Post: Chief Secretary from the communication workshop of the 7th Guards Army
Candidate for the Medal for Combat Service
Birth year : 1923
Nationality: Ukrainian
Member of the Komsomol since 1938
Participation in the Civil War or other actions for the defence of the Soviet Union : Great Patriotic War participant since October 22nd 1942
Wounds : -------


RVK de recruiting: Stalingrad region , Bikovsk, RVK
Medals : Defence of Stalingrad
Address of the candidate : Stalingrad region, district of Bikovsk, village of Razhdolye
Mother : Novuvorskaya Elena Pavlovna

Chief Secretary of the OAMC administration, she has shown discipline and she proved that she was capable of some initiative. She learned her work in a short period of time and she has contributed to ameliorate de situations in many things. Without thinking about sleeping, she was able to reconstruct the accountancy of the material and the alimentary products. She was able to pursue here writings during the Belgorod-Kharkov battles where she was an example for the personnel of her unity from a disciplinary point of view and for her initiative.

Therefore she is recommended for the Medal for Combat Service.

Major of the Guard of the OAMC of the 7th Guards Army


Is being awarded the Medal for Combat Service
(Order N. 275 from the 7th Guards Army on October 10th 1943

Nice presentation.

Thank you Paul. Let me know if I got the right information about the citation translation. :)

Here Red Army book says she first fought for the Defence of Stalingrad, then the battle for Belgorod, she took part in the Yassy-Kishinev operation (also called Jassy-Kishinev or Iasi-Chisinau) on the Moldavian front and then finally in the Budapest operation.

The Combat Service medal was awarded on October 10th 1943, for her service during the Belgorod battle

EDIT : Wrong information provided on the city of Belgorod

Here is a map to locate Belgorod.

[Image: http://www.rkka.org/Campaigns/images/Belgorod.JPG]

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Here is the original citation. Also awarded an OPWI'85.