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Red Star,0668889,Head Quartermaster,122nd Engineer-Sapper Battalion - Bill Garvy - 01-26-2013
[SIZE="3"]Record card
Order booklet nr. A-021400
1. Last name: Shmatov
2. First name and patronymic: Nikolai Timofeyevich
3. Military rank: Senior Lieutenant of the Quartermaster Service
4. Sex: Male
5. Year of birth: 1913
6. Place of birth: City of Voronezh
7. Party membership (since which year): Member of the Communist Party since 1943
8. Education: Secondary
9. Nationality: Russian
10. Since which year in the Red Army: 1941
11. Place of service (name of the unit) and position at the time of the award: Assistant battalion commander in the 7th Motorized Assault Brigade
12. Current place of service and position: Director of store nr. 30, Voronezh
13. Home address of the awardee: 62 Petrozavodskaya Street, Voronezh
14. Record of all awards received:
Names of the orders and medals/Their numbers/Numbers of the documents/Ground of award
Order of the Red Star 668889 Temporary certificate nr. V-092694 Order of the 7th Engineer Brigade nr. 10/N of June 12th, 1944
Medal for the Defense of Stalingrad 048000 Decree of the Presidium of December 22nd, 1942
Medal for the Victory over Germany K-0034006 Decree of the Presidium of May 9th, 1946
Signature of the awardee: [signed]
I confirm the correctness of the data and the signature of the awardee (position and signature):
Military commissar of the Voroshilov Raion
Lieutenant Colonel [signed] /Ioffe/
July 18th, 1946
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Red Star,0668889,Head Quartermaster,122nd Engineer-Sapper Battalion - Bill Garvy - 01-26-2013
[SIZE="3"]Order
Secret
Copy nr. 3
[Pencil: 7th Engineer-Sapper Brigade of the Reserve of the High Command; September 5th, 1944]
Order
Of the 7th Simferopol Red Banner Engineer-Sapper Brigade of the Reserve of the High Command
June 12th, 1944 – Nr. 10/N – Active Army
On behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, for the exemplary accomplishment of combat missions in the struggle with the German invaders and the valor and bravery displayed in the process, I award:
The Order of the Red Star to:
[…]
14. Senior Lieutenant of the Quartermaster Service Nikolai Timofeyevich Shmatov, Chief of the Quartermaster Service of the 122nd Engineer-Sapper Battalion
[…]
Commander of the 7th Simferopol Red Banner Engineer-Sapper Brigade of the Reserve of the High Command
Guards Lieutenant Colonel [signed] /Vestsenny/
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Red Star,0668889,Head Quartermaster,122nd Engineer-Sapper Battalion - Bill Garvy - 01-26-2013
[SIZE="3"]Award sheet
1. Last name, first name and patronymic: Shmatov, Nikolai Timofeyevich
2. Rank: Senior Lieutenant of the Quartermaster Service
3. Position and unit: Chief of the Quartermaster Service of the 122nd Engineer-Sapper Battalion
Nominated for: Order of the Red Star
4. Year of birth: 1913
5. Nationality: Russian
6. Party affiliation: Member of the Communist Party since 1933
7. Participation in the Civil War, the subsequent combat actions to defend the USSR, and the Patriotic War (where and when): Since March, 1942 on the Bryansk, Voronezh, Stalingrad, and 4th Ukrainian Front
8. Wounds and contusions received during the Patriotic War: No
9. Since when in the Red Army: Since June 22nd, 1941
10. Drafted by which military commissariat: Military Commissariat of the Nizhnedevitsk Raion, Voronezh Oblast
11. Awards received previously (for which merits): Medal for the Defense of Stalingrad
12. Permanent home address of the prospective awardee and the address of his family: 62 Petrozavodskaya Street, Voronezh
Short, concrete description of his combat feat or merits:
Senior Lieutenant Shmatov serves as the battalion’s chief of supplies. During the entire period of the battalion’s Sivash River crossings, he excelled in his assigned duties of guaranteeing the supplying and foraging the battalion. Additionally, comrade Shmatov made great contributions by supplying construction material to rebuild places destroyed by enemy bombs and artillery, thus permitting timely supply of equipment to the Crimean shore.
During the fighting for the liberation of the Crimea, comrade Shmatov displayed exceptional skill and attention in supplying goods to the personnel, always supplying the personnel of the most forward units with hot meals three times a day and delivering it in a timely manner despite difficult combat conditions.
During the assault on the enemy’s fortifications on Sapun Hill, comrade Shmatov was ordered to feed the forces on the demined front lines with the enemy prior to dawn. The mission was accomplished. Upon approaching the demined area, while among individual soldiers, confusion arose because of heavy enemy artillery, mortar, and machine-gun fire. By his personal example of bravery and courage, comrade Shmatov motivated the personnel to accomplish their combat mission in a timely manner. Under his personal leadership, in 90 minutes 75 mines were removed via two passages, thus supporting the infantry's advance. For accomplishing his tasks in an excellent manner he deserves the Order of the Red Star.
Commander of the 122nd Engineer-Sapper Battalion
Captain [signed] /Barylnikov/
May 30th, 1944
He deserves to be awarded the Order of the Red Star.
Commander of the 7th Red Banner Simferopol Engineer-Sapper Brigade of the Reserve of the High Command
Guards Lieutenant Colonel [signature] /Bestenny/
June 10th, 1944
By Order of the 7th Red Banner Simferopol Engineer-Sapper Brigade of the Reserve of the High Command nr. 10/N of June 12th, 1944 awarded the Order of the Red Star.
Chief of the 3rd Section
Major [signed] /Martynov/
June 12th, 1944
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Red Star,0668889,Head Quartermaster,122nd Engineer-Sapper Battalion - Bill Garvy - 01-26-2013
[SIZE="3"]Service record
1. Last name, first name and patronymic: Shmatov, Nikolai Timofeyevich
2. Date of birth: November 23rd, 1913
3. Nationality: Russian
4. Knowledge of languages: No
5. Place of birth: Village of Verkhne-Turovo, Nizhnedevitsk Raion, Voronezh Oblast
6. Party affiliation
Member of the Communist Party since: August, 1943
Party membership booklet nr.: 5521398
Candidate member of the Communist Party since:
Member or candidate member of the Komsomol since:
Not a party member:
Membership of other parties:
Party penalties and changes in party affiliation:
7. Social situation and background: Serviceman from a family of peasants
8. Profession (specialty): Merchant
9. Family situation:
10. Civilian education (names of the educational institutions):
a) General education: 6 classes of secondary school, unfinished, Voronezh, 1930
b) Special education: Six-month merchant course, Voronezh, 1948
11. Military education:
a) In the old army: No
b) In the Red Army: No
12. Party education: No
13. Conferment of military ranks Date and year Order
Quartermaster-Technician 2nd Grade 1941 People’s Commissariat of Defense
Senior Lieutenant of the Quartermaster Service July 12, 1943 Nr. 0564, Southern Front
14. Service at the front: On the Bryansk Front from March 1942 through September 1942; on the Stalingrad Front from September 1942 through February 1943; on the Southern Front from February, 1943 through November 1943; on the 4th Ukrainian Front from November 1943 through May, 1945
15. Wounds or contusions: No
16. Awards (orders and medals): No
17. Academic title: No
Academic degree: No
Joined the Red Army on: July 13th, 1941
Name of the unit Name of the position Month, day and year By whose order Order nr.
19th Engineer-Sapper Brigade, Bryansk Front Sapper platoon leader July, 1941
1404th Sapper Battalion, 19th Engineer-Sapper Brigade Chief of the Quartermaster Service September. 1942
124th Engineer-Mine Battalion, 7th Engineer-Mine Brigade Chief of Provisions and Foraging December, 1942
March 22, 1943
Southern Front
0176
119th Engineer-Sapper Battalion, 7th Engineer-Mine Brigade Chief of Provisions and Foraging May, 1943
122nd Engineer-Sapper Battalion, 7th Engineer-Sapper Brigade of the Reserve of the High Command Chief of Provisions and Foraging November, 1943
122nd Engineer-Sapper Battalion, 7th Simferopol Red Banner Motorized Assault Engineer-Sapper Brigade of the Reserve of the High Command, 4th Ukrainian Front Assistant battalion commander for materiel supplies July, 1944
October 5th, 1943
Southwestern Front
0820
Transferred to the reserve in accordance with Article 43 (due to disease) by Order of the Engineer Forces of the Red Army nr. 0159 of February 16th, 1946.
Military commissar of the Voroshilov Raion
Lieutenant Colonel [signed] /Ioffe/
Chief of the 3rd Section
Guards Captain [signed] /Kaniberdya[?]/
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Red Star,0668889,Head Quartermaster,122nd Engineer-Sapper Battalion - Bill Garvy - 01-26-2013
[SIZE="3"]Senior Lieutenant of the Quartermaster Service Nikolai Timofeyevich Shmatov's Order of the Red Star, #668889, as well as the documentation from the archive of his receipt of an Order of the Great Patriotic War, 2nd Class, 1985 Jubilee issue.
My thanks to Auke for his invaluable assistance. Photographs and scans used with permission.[/SIZE]