08-06-2012, 01:18 PM
Here is his Order booklet from which we can take the Decree date of 30th December 1956 and know that on this date the decree was for honouring long serving Red Army personnel. If he was awarded it for 15 years service (as was customary) we can deduce that he probably started his service coinciding with the start of the Great Patriotic War and was awarded the Medal "For Combat Merits" for 10 years service somewhere around 1951.
He is not on Podvignaroda so it would seem to be "complete".
He is not on Podvignaroda so it would seem to be "complete".
"Signed with his own rubber stamp"












