01-27-2014, 09:24 PM
Award Sheet
Duty position: Battalion Commander –738 Light Artillery Regiment
Rank, last name, name, and patrionymic: Lieutenant Khandrus, Stepan Kharitonovich
Recommended for: Medal for Bravery
1. Born: 1921
2. Nationality: Ukrainian
3. Social Standing: Collective farmer
4. Party membership: Komsomol member
5. Since when in the Red Army: Since August 1939
6. Participation in the Civil War: Didn’t participate
7. Wounds or contusions: None
8. If recommended for any previous action, when and for what: None submitted
9. Any previous awards and awarded for what: Had gratitude from the battalion commander in the artuchilische
10. Service in white or other bourgeois army and situations of captivity: None
11. Home of record: [trans: entry intentionally obscured]
Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment
During the defense of Konotop on 09/09/41 he showed courage to provide cover for the batteries retreating to a new line of defense. Operating a machine gun he destroyed enemy machine gun emplacements. Under the heavy machine gun and mortar fire from the enemy, he ensured the removal of the surviving materiel and vehicles from the battlefield.
Commander of the 738th Rifle Regiment
Major/ [signed] / Kasatkin
Military Commissar
Senior Political Officer / [signed] / Mekhes
Duty position: Battalion Commander –738 Light Artillery Regiment
Rank, last name, name, and patrionymic: Lieutenant Khandrus, Stepan Kharitonovich
Recommended for: Medal for Bravery
1. Born: 1921
2. Nationality: Ukrainian
3. Social Standing: Collective farmer
4. Party membership: Komsomol member
5. Since when in the Red Army: Since August 1939
6. Participation in the Civil War: Didn’t participate
7. Wounds or contusions: None
8. If recommended for any previous action, when and for what: None submitted
9. Any previous awards and awarded for what: Had gratitude from the battalion commander in the artuchilische
10. Service in white or other bourgeois army and situations of captivity: None
11. Home of record: [trans: entry intentionally obscured]
Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment
During the defense of Konotop on 09/09/41 he showed courage to provide cover for the batteries retreating to a new line of defense. Operating a machine gun he destroyed enemy machine gun emplacements. Under the heavy machine gun and mortar fire from the enemy, he ensured the removal of the surviving materiel and vehicles from the battlefield.
Commander of the 738th Rifle Regiment
Major/ [signed] / Kasatkin
Military Commissar
Senior Political Officer / [signed] / Mekhes
