Red Star,2137173,Aimer,76mm Gun Battery,6th Guards Rifle Regiment,West Prussia

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Red Star #2137173. A bit of "replacement therapy" on an arm.

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1. Family, Borisevich,
2. Name And Patronym, Grigorij Romanovich
3. Military Rank, Guards Junior Sergeant
4. Sex, Male
5. Year Of Birth, 1908
6. Place Of Birth, Dnepropetsk Oblast, Mirokov Region, Novo-Kursk
7. Party Membership, Non-Partisan
8. Education, None
9. Nationality, Ukrainian
10. From Which Year In Red Army, From March 1941 - November 1945
11. Which Service And Position At Time Of Award, 6th Guards Rifle Regiment, 2nd Guards Rifle Division - Gun Aimer
12. Place Of Service And Position At Current Time, Collective Farm "Kirov" Prigor'e - Tractorist
13. Current address of awarded, Herson Oblast, Vysokopol' Region, Prigor'e

"Red Star" 2137173 2nd April 1945
"Glory 3rd Class" 393370 18th May 1945
"For Victory Over Germany"

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1. Family, Name, Patronym. Borisevich, Grigorij Romanovich
2. Rank. Guards Red Army Soldier
3. Position and unit. Gun Aimer, 76mm Gun Battery, 6th Guards Rifle Sevastopol Red Banner Regiment, 2nd Guards Rifle Taman Red Banner Order Suvorov Division
Presented For Award Of The Order "Glory Third Class"
4. Year of birth. 1908
5. Nationality. Ukrainian
6. Party Membership. Non-Partisan
7. Participation in the Civil War, subsequent military activity in defence of the USSR and Patriotic War /where, when/ In the Civil War not participating. In the Patriotic War from August 1942. North Caucasus Front. From November 1943 4th Ukrainian Front, From December 1944 3rd Belorussian Front
8. Has been wounded, contused in Patriotic War. Wounded 21st February 1945 Location Zinten
9. From which time in Red Army. From February 1942.
10. Which Regional Military Commissariat called. Leningrad Regional Military Commissariat, Krasnodar Kraj.
11. Has received awards (for which distinction). Award not had.
12. Current award of those presented for award or their family.
Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Shirokov Region, Novo-Kursk

In battle for the settlement point of Stolzenberg /West Prussia/ 3rd March 1945 Comrade Borisevich worked as a charge calculator, was in open fire positions together with combat orders of infantry and was firing at the enemy with direct fire at short range. With the staff of his gun destroyed 3 German heavy machineguns, One enemy gun, two enemy observation points and put out of action by killing or wounding up to 30 German soldiers and officers.

For boldness and resoluteness displayed in combat Comrade Borisevich is worthy of the Governmental award Order "Glory Third Class".

Commander 6th Guards Rifle Sevastopol Red Banner Regiment Guards Lieutenant-Colonel Monshtejn

30th March 1945