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+------ Thread: For Combat Merits,0116122,Mortarist,1st Guards Mechanised Brigade,Stalingrad (/Thread-For-Combat-Merits-0116122-Mortarist-1st-Guards-Mechanised-Brigade-Stalingrad)
For Combat Merits,0116122,Mortarist,1st Guards Mechanised Brigade,Stalingrad - CtahhR - 07-14-2016
Here is the Medal "For Combat Merits" #116122.
For Combat Merits,0116122,Mortarist,1st Guards Mechanised Brigade,Stalingrad - CtahhR - 07-26-2016
1. Family, Gerasimenko
2. Name And Patronym, Nikolaj Nikolaevich
3. Military Rank, Guards Soldier
4. Sex, Male
5. Year Of Birth, 1922
6. Place Of Birth, Zaporezh Oblast, Orehov Region, Novo-Solosheno
7. Party Membership, Member VKP/b/ since 1945
8. Education, 5 Classes
9. Nationality, Ukrainian
10. From Which Year In Red Army, From August 1941 to November 1945.
11. Which Service And Position At Time Of Award, 1st Guards Mechanised Brigade, 1st Guards Mechanised Corps, 3rd Ukrainian Front - Telephonist
12. Place Of Service And Position At Current Time, Poltava, Regional Department Of The People's Commissariat For Supplies - Agent
13. Current address of awarded, Poltava Oblast, Poltava Region, Kalashnikov
For Combat Merits 116122 5th January 1943
For Bravery 834007 9th September 1943
Red Star 1867906 15th January 1945
For Combat Merits,0116122,Mortarist,1st Guards Mechanised Brigade,Stalingrad - CtahhR - 07-26-2016
1. Family, Name, Patronym. Gerasimenko, Nikolaj Nikolaevich
2. Rank. Guards Red Army Soldier
3. Position and unit. Mortarist, 120mm Mortar Battery, 1st Guards Mechanised Brigade
Presented For The Medal "For Combat Merits".
4. Year of birth. 1922
5. Nationality. Ukrainian
6. Party Membership. Member VLKSM
7. Participation in the Civil War, subsequent military activity in defence of the USSR and Patriotic War /where, when/ Patriotic War from September 1941.
8. Has been wounded, contused in Patriotic War. Not had
9. From which time in Red Army. 1941.
10. Which Regional Military Commissariat called. Orehov, Zaporozh Oblast.
11. Has received awards (for which distinction). Not awarded.
27th December 1942 whilst being attacked by German troops on firing positions of the battery Comrade Gerasimenko boldly went on the counter-attack towards the enemy, trailing fighters fearlessly. In this battle Comrade Gerasimenko shot more than a dozen enemy soldiers and captured 7 Fascist soldiers.
Worthy of award of the Medal "For Combat Merits"
Battery Commander, 1st Guards Mechanised Brigade, Guards Senior Lieutenant Ignatov.
31st December 1942
For Combat Merits,0116122,Mortarist,1st Guards Mechanised Brigade,Stalingrad - CtahhR - 02-06-2024
Here is a photograph of the recipient. He died on 8th March 1988.