Red Star,1032964,Chemical Officer,813th Rifle Regiment

[Tommy]

Exactly, if you don't try, you have no chnace at all!

I guess I'll be paying Auke a call :)

Cheers guys,

Tom

[Tommy]

I got my photo! :D

Service record   D-550683  

1. Last name, first name and patronymic: Kaplun, Vasily Ivanovich
2. Date and place of birth: January 1, 1905; village of Artyomovka, Pechenegi Raion, Kharkov Oblast
3. Nationality: Ukrainian
4. Knowledge of foreign languages and level of mastery: No
5. Social situation and origins: Serviceman from a family of peasants
6. Party affiliation

Member of the Communist Party since: 1930
Party membership booklet nr.: 9145860
Candidate member of the Communist Party since:
Member of the Komsomol since:
Not a party member:
Party penalties and changes in party affiliation:

7. Education General education: 7 classes of secondary school (unfinished) in the village of Artyomovka, Pechenegi Raion, Kharkov Oblast Military education (indicate full names of the military educational institutions, month and year of graduation, full or accelerated course attended): Chemical Officer Course on the Southwestern Front in May 1942 Political education: No
8. Service at the front: On the Southwestern Front from November 1941 through June 1942, on the Volkhov Front from June 1942 through February 1944, on the Leningrad Front from February 1944 through May 1944, and on the 3rd Baltic Front from May 1944 through May 1945
9. Wounds and contusions: No
10. Awards (orders and medals): Order of the Red Star in 1944 and Medal for the Defense of Leningrad in 1944
11. Has he been in captivity or surrounded; when, where and for how long (if he was surrounded, only note escapes separate from his unit): No
12. Registration numbers:
13. Registered where (name of the military commissariat and oblast): Military Commissariat of the Bliznetsy Raion, Kharkov Oblast  
14. Military promotions By whose order Order nr. Date
Captain 1st Baltic Army [sic] 0835 1944
             
15. Personnel category: Commanding officers, reserve of the 1st category
16. Branch of arms: Chemical forces, military specialty nr. 57
17. State of health: Healthy
18. Attended trainings:
19. Place of service and position (or nature of activities outside military service): Chairman of the Bliznetsy Rural Municipality
20. Family situation and home address: Married to Lidia Timofeyevna Kaplun, born in 1912. Son, Vitaly, born in 1939. 2 Polevaya ["Field"] Street, Bliznetsy
21. Special remarks: Military ID series D-024  
22. Service in the Soviet Army:  

Name of the position Name of the unit By whose order Order nr. Date
Oct 1941-Dec 1941 - Student Reserve of the Southwestern Front      
Dec 1941-May 1942 - Student Chemical Officer Course on the Southwestern Front      
May 1942-Nov 1942 - Chemical defense platoon leader 225th Army Reserve Rifle Regiment, 54th Army      
Nov 1942-Jun 1943 - Deputy company commander for personnel affairs Independent Chemical Defense Company of the 54th Army      
Jun 1943-Aug 1943 - Student Reserve of the 54th Army      
Chief of the Chemical Service 813th Rifle Regiment, 239th Rifle Division, 67th Army 67th Army 0326 Aug 1943
Jul 1945-Nov 1945 - Student 30th Independent Officers' Reserve Regiment      

Military commissar of the Bliznetsy Raion, Kharkov Oblast Major

[signed] /Kuts/  
Commissariat officer Senior Lieutenant

[signed] /Vakulenko[?]/                

23. Transferred to the reserve of the 1st category with the rank of Captain Commander of the Central Group of Forces 01306 Nov 30, 1945
24. Retired with the rank of:        
25. Attestation  

On which position

Final conclusion of the attestation

Date