For Combat Merits,0838057,Medic,448th Rifle Regiment,397th Rifle Division,61st Army

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Here is the Medal "For Combat Merits" #838057. The original ribbon is preserved underneath this red ribbon. A practice that is sometimes seen.

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1. Family, Shvachka,
2. Name And Patronym, Hariton Il'ich
3. Military Rank, Private
4. Sex, Male
5. Year Of Birth, 1896
6. Place Of Birth, Sumsk Oblast, Hoten Region, Skljarovka
7. Party Membership, Non-Partisan
8. Education, None
9. Nationality, Ukrainian
10. From Which Year In Red Army, 8.1941 to August 1945.
11. Which Service And Position At Time Of Award, 448th Rifle Regiment, 397th Rifle Division, 61st Army, 2nd Belorussian - Signaller
12. Place Of Service And Position At Current Time, Collective Farm "Promin' Communism" Hoten Region - Collective Farmer
13. Current address of awarded Sumy Oblast, Hoten Region, Skljarovka

"For Combat Merits" 838057 27th July 1943
"Red Star" 1561972 3rd June 1945
"For Victory Over Germany"

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Medic, Sanitary Company, Red Army Soldier Shvachko, Hariton Il'ich for that, while in battle for the village of Tsarevka 17th and 18th July 1943 took from the field of battle 21 heavily wounded fighters and commanders with their weapons.

1896 born, Ukrainian, Non-Partisan, Called to the RKKA by Hatyn Regional Military Commissariat.