12-29-2014, 03:28 PM
I was implying that this person was a viable candidate to be the recipient and not that this was the citation for the award (this is a 1945 awarded Medal "For Combat Merits").
It must also be taken into consideration that there was quite often relocations. One group in the collection to a 50th Anniversary recipient. He was born in the far west of the Russian Empire but had relocated to the Uzbek SSR prior to the Great Patriotic War. If he had relocated again after the war you could find his birthplace being very different to his wartime Commissariat but he may have returned home or gone elsewhere to receive "thanks" in the 1960's. This is just with domestic travels - it gets even stranger a tale with internationalists within the Warsaw Pact nations etc.
It must also be taken into consideration that there was quite often relocations. One group in the collection to a 50th Anniversary recipient. He was born in the far west of the Russian Empire but had relocated to the Uzbek SSR prior to the Great Patriotic War. If he had relocated again after the war you could find his birthplace being very different to his wartime Commissariat but he may have returned home or gone elsewhere to receive "thanks" in the 1960's. This is just with domestic travels - it gets even stranger a tale with internationalists within the Warsaw Pact nations etc.
"Signed with his own rubber stamp"
