03-20-2012, 10:35 PM
Citation for his second "Bravery Medal"
The Bravery Medal to:
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6. Guards Private Mikhail Matveyevich Butovchenko, machine gunner in the 1st Machine Gun Company of the 6th Guards Rifle Regiment, 2nd Guards Red Banner Rifle Division, for the fact that he, during the fighting for the Krasnaya Balka farm in the Varennikovskaya Raion of the Krasnodar Krai on September 4, 1943 under heavy enemy fire advanced forward and with his crew suppressed the fire of an enemy mounted machine gun, which was impeding the advance of our attacking troops. Firing at the retreating enemy he killed up to a platoon of infantry.
Born in 1924, member of the Komsomol since 1939, Russian, drafted by the Military Commissariat of the Temirgoyevskaya Raion, awarded the Medal for Bravery by Order of the 6th Guards Rifle Regiment nr. 029/N of August 30, 1943, home address: _______________.
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Commander of the 6th Guards Rifle Regiment
Guards Colonel [signed] /Aleksandrovsky/
Chief of staff of the regiment
Guards Major [signed] /Sapozhnikov/
Chief of the Personnel Section of the 56th Army
Lieutenant Colonel [signed] /Matveichuk/
November 5, 1943
Chief of the Personnel Section of the Northcaucasian Front
Lieutenant Colonel [signed] /Zhdanov/
December 8, 1943
Order
Of the 6th Guards Rifle Regiment, 2nd Guards Red Banner Rifle Division
October 7, 1943 – Nr. 037/N – Active Army, Northcaucasian Front
On behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, I award:October 7, 1943 – Nr. 037/N – Active Army, Northcaucasian Front
The Bravery Medal to:
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6. Guards Private Mikhail Matveyevich Butovchenko, machine gunner in the 1st Machine Gun Company of the 6th Guards Rifle Regiment, 2nd Guards Red Banner Rifle Division, for the fact that he, during the fighting for the Krasnaya Balka farm in the Varennikovskaya Raion of the Krasnodar Krai on September 4, 1943 under heavy enemy fire advanced forward and with his crew suppressed the fire of an enemy mounted machine gun, which was impeding the advance of our attacking troops. Firing at the retreating enemy he killed up to a platoon of infantry.
Born in 1924, member of the Komsomol since 1939, Russian, drafted by the Military Commissariat of the Temirgoyevskaya Raion, awarded the Medal for Bravery by Order of the 6th Guards Rifle Regiment nr. 029/N of August 30, 1943, home address: _______________.
[…]
Commander of the 6th Guards Rifle Regiment
Guards Colonel [signed] /Aleksandrovsky/
Chief of staff of the regiment
Guards Major [signed] /Sapozhnikov/
Chief of the Personnel Section of the 56th Army
Lieutenant Colonel [signed] /Matveichuk/
November 5, 1943
Chief of the Personnel Section of the Northcaucasian Front
Lieutenant Colonel [signed] /Zhdanov/
December 8, 1943
